Olympus FE-310 8MP Digital Camera with 5x Optical Zoom (Black) by Olympus
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Digital camera reviews of Olympus FE-310 8MP Digital Camera with 5x Optical Zoom (Black)
Digital camera Review: Poor battery life
Summary: 1 Stars
Don't touch it with a 10 foot barge pole, battery life is nil. From various issues I have seen on the web it is a design issue. Basically the only batteries I can get to work are the expensive lithium ones and then if you leave then it the discharge over a couple of months of non use.
Was going to let my girls play with it but I spend to much on batteries.
Digital camera Review: Ridiculous camera, ridiculous support
Summary: 1 Stars
Reading buyer comments from a number of sites, it's clear that TERRIBLE battery life is a common issue. Mine worked well only for <100 shots and a handful of videos. Since then, the "battery has no charge" message displays after one shot. I've had the same results whether I'm using rechargeables or alkalines.
Other issues include a pause between pushing the button and the actual shot, giving somewhere in the neighborhood of 3 seconds waiting time-- enough for most candid shots to be a miss. And Olympus support basicaly said, "It's a low priced camera, and that's all it does."
Awful product, awful support. It's back to canon PowerShots from here on!
Digital camera Review: Batteries are everything
Summary: 4 Stars
I also bought this camera and experienced poor battery life. After reading the reviews I was ready to box it up and ship it back. At the last minute I decided to give it another try and work the batterys. I bought 2 each of every battery that said digital camera. I also measured the short circuit current of each type of battery. What I found is this camera (and every camera that uses AA's) needs high current NOT high capacity.The flash is essentially a dead short. When the engineers built the bigger zoom (5X) they made the flash bigger. The bigger flash it put a hugh load on the batterys. The best batterys that I found were the Hybrios (new style NiMh that holds it charge for a year another benefit). The Sony high current also worked. When I tested it with fresh charged batterys I gave up after 80 consecutive forced flashs in a row and I got tired of testing. Previously I could get about ten flashes before the batterys failed. This included alkaline as they do not like being shorted. So bottom line is you need about 8 amps short circuit current to make the camera live. Six amps short circuit does not work and the age of the cells counts for a lot. I have tried these cells in a DSLR with the same results they last a long time.Digital camera Review: Warmnfriendly
Summary: 5 Stars
This truely is a great camera overall.
We all need a digital camera which is "user friendly", and this is the camera!
Unlike the "one" negative comment, this review is right-on!
P.S., Just as with all digital cameras/realted devices...you must use Lithium Batteries for optimum performance. This is clearly recommended in the owner's manual so let's be fair when blogging. :-)
Digital camera Review: Dont Buy it
Summary: 1 Stars
I'm 13 and so yea...
I bought this camera at target because i wanted to upgrade from my out of date hp camera. It was on sale, so I thought it was a good buy.
But the camera it self is terrible.
The battery life is very poor, so you would have to get rechargables and the shutter button doesnt work properly. You have to hold it down for like, a minute until it actually takes the picture.
Picture quality would probably be like, a C-. It's lame, i have to edit all of my pictures for them to look good
When you delete a picture, that's a whole other problem. I am thinking of a buying a waterproof camera, and i noticed that olympus has them also, Yea, right like i'd waste my money on another lame camera by Olympus.
If your looking for a good camera, I'd recommend canon or nikon. The image quality on those are really good.