Reviews for Olympus Compact Digital Cameras

"The 550WP is equipped with features that enable the camera to capture excellent underwater photos...And the addition of the µ-550WP to this range has made it easy for amateur photographers to capture high quality, underwater photos without requiring those expensive and bulky equipments...The µ-550WP is equipped with number of features to capture high quality images..." read more »

"Robust features - ease of use...Watch out for a loss of detail in light areas of your shots...The Olympus MJU Tough 8000 certainly earns the tough part in its name...Taking into account the MJU Tough 8000 has a wide angle lens sharpness is in line with my expectations or perhaps a shade above...The shots may not be absolutely pin sharp, but they are good enough for most print sizes...Lighting levels are good, with the brightness from the flash being spread..." read more »

"Large lens range Fast shutter times Good image quality...Low battery life Inconsistent AF Digital IS...Of course, having the biggest lens doesn't count for much more than having the biggest lens if the camera packaged around it doesn't perform...The SP-590 UZ looks like a mini-DSLR, following the design trend that has largely characterized the ultrazoom class since at least back in the days when 10x represented the high water mark for zoom multiplication...There..." read more »

"Robust features - ease of use...Start up and shutter lag times...The MJU Tough 6000 gets off to a solid start...This is a good effort for a digital camera with a wide angle lens...It is good through most of the shot, before softening towards the right hand edge of the photo...The MJU Tough 6000 manages to inject a good deal of brightness into this outdoor shot......" read more »

"The 12-megapixel mju-7010 is a great little camera that combines a compact body with a 7x wideangle zoom...good pictures at medium to high ISOs...A big step forward from the old mju-7000, the Olympus mju-7010 combines a 7x wideangle zoom with a slim body..." read more »

"The Olympus µ 7000 (also known as the mju 7000) is a slightly boxier compact camera than you'd expect from the range...This doesn't mean in any way that the Olympus µ 7000 is an ugly model, though...The LCD screen pretty much fills most of the rear of the camera body, leaving the buttons sitting to the far right, just underneath your thumb...When it comes to scene modes, the Olympus mju-7000 offers all the usual choices...Generally, picture quality on the Olympus µ 7000 is good, although in Auto mode most of the shots did seem a little lifeless and dreary and needed a bit of a tweak in Photoshop to give them more contrast..." read more »

"Comparing these reviews to 539115 other Digital Compact Cameras reviews gives this product an overall alaScore™ 94/100 = Excellent...Tell us what you like about this product...Tell us what you don't like about this product..." read more »

"The two less expensive cameras (the FE-4000 and FE-46) have pop-art, pinhole and wedding effects, and the FE-5020 and Stylus-7010 have pop-art, pinhole and fish-eye modes...Olympus added a new button to the camera, marked OR for Olympus Recommends, which takes you to a menu with all these advanced functions..." read more »

"The FE-5020 and FE-4000 also have wide-angle zoom lenses inside their new super-slim bodies, so you’ll be able to capture even more friends in one memorable image...The new AF Tracking technology locks your subject in focus, and continuously adjusts focus and brightness whether you or your subject are moving...Fish-Eye – Available on the FE-5020 and FE-4000, this filter emulates the wide-angle of a fish-eye lens by taking extremely wide, hemispherical images and magnifying the center of the frame...Program Auto and Exposure Compensation are great modes that enable novice users to get results like the pros while learning about the effects of different photography techniques..." read more »