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Olympus Stylus 410 4MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom | List Price: $349.99
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Brand: Olympus
Binding: Electronics
Features: - 4-megapixel sensor captures enough detail to create photo-quality 11-by-15-inch enlargements
- 3x optical zoom combines with 4x digital zoom for 12x total zoom
- Quicktime movie mode with audio; PictBridge enabled; 1.5-inch LCD screen
- Store images on xD memory cards (includes 32 MB xD card)
- Powered by lithium-ion battery (included with charger)
Handy, friendly little camera [Posted on 2007-07-07]
This tiny jewel of a camera is a snap to use, fits easily in one's pocket, and is surprisingly sturdy (with its solid construction, automatic lens cover, and all-weather rating). We've taken many great pictures with it, including all those we'd have missed because toting our big SLRs was either too inconvenient or not an option. Our Stylus 410 stays with us whereever we go --- because we've found that it's so much easier to take a picture if you have a camera at hand. We've very much enjoyed our Stylus 410 and heartily recommend carrying one.
tough comfortable beautiful [Posted on 2007-08-17]
This is a beautiful looking camera. It is a very comfortable camera and fits easily into the palm of your hand. It slips into a pocket for easy carry and you can drop it and it still works. I've dropped mine several times. It's also water resistant.
If you want a rugged camera that takes good pictures and don't need manual settings this is a bargain for today's prices. I bought one
when they first came out and paid a lot more.
I also have the telephoto and wide angle lenses which are held on with magnet rings.
Don't care much for the CamedaMaster software and don't even use it.
You have to pay extra to activate some features. Also would prefer the entire manual in print and not on disk. The menu takes awhile to learn. I wish the camera would save my default settings like flash off.
Hope that helps. For $89 this is a good deal for a camera that you can
just take with you anywhere.
Michelle
I don't love this camera [Posted on 2007-11-13]
We received the 400 model as a Christmas gift about 2 yrs ago and I have to say I've been fairly disappointed. The flash is way too much and blows out most of the photos...the slide mechanism to open/close gets stuck sometimes and overall picture quality is not so good. I'm trading it in for a Cannon SD1000, I think we will get much better results.
A great little all-around camera! [Posted on 2007-11-26]
I bought a refurbished version of this camera from Olympus two years ago, and it is still working perfectly. I gave it 4 stars only because it is an older camera with lower megapixels by today's standards; but even so, it's big on features, and it can take some fabulous pictures.
This camera is very hardy and rugged, light and very compact, yet if feels solid in your hands. I keep it with me all the time, throwing it in my purse to take it down the street or across the country. It is dinged up, scratched, and slightly dented, but it just keeps going. Living in the Sacramento valley, I have also subjected it to some fairly extreme conditions -- from Tahoe snow to over 100 degrees F in the summer. It even fell in the water on a boating trip, and it's still going strong.
I chose this camera because of its many features. I especially wanted the option for video with sound, and originally thought I'd only be taking snapshots of people with it. However, this camera can do so much more. It has several condition settings, such as Beach+Snow for bright sun, Landscape, Landscape+Portrait, Portrait, Indoors, and even a Cuisine setting for food! I've also had fun with the Macro and Super Macro settings. For the ambitious and creative, you can vary the White Balance and Exposure Value for indoors, outdoors, and different lighting conditions. It also has a Stitch Panorama setting (for taking multiple photos of a wide or tall scene and stitching them together with Olympus software), and you can record sound with a picture. It will also shoot multiple frames at about 3 fps. The zoom range on it is decent -- you can take pix of landscapes yet still get rather close for action.
After two years, I have pretty much maxed out this camera's abilities and will be upgrading to the Canon EOS 40D. But I would definitely recommend this camera to a friend, and I'd buy it again for its price, features, and overall quality.
Very disappointed. [Posted on 2008-06-28]
I do not recommend this camera. After a short time, the barrier slider came loose, and I had to continually tighten the screws. They finally came out on their own and I had to pay $25 for the entire slider from Olympus just to get the screws. All I needed were the screws! After replacing the screws, the flash died. I got screwed, huh? And, as many of the other reviewers mention, this is a problem that many owners have. Same with the barrier slider. WHAT'S UP WITH OLYMPUS? I paid a lot of money for this camera and am very disappointed. I will never buy an Olympus product again. I recently purchased the Nikon D40 and am extremely happy with it.
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