Olympus Camedia C-860L

When my camera broke-the carry handle snapped it fell on the pavement, bounced into the road and was promtly run over by a car(much to my mates amusement)-I decided to fork out the extra cash for a digital camera instead of just replacing the old one. When I went to look for a digital camera I was caught by an overly smarmy store assistant, you know the kind, slicked back hair, smart jacket, speaks only in jargon and doesn't ever let you go. Smarmy sales guy:<sidles up out of nowhere> "Hello sir, can I be of assistance?" Me: "Umm? yes, I was thinking of buying a digital camera, nothing pricey mind you, its just for taking holiday ...

The Olympus C860L is definitely the best value for money I could find, after comparing prices and features of a considerable number of digital cameras, both in physical shops and on the net. It even has some features that higher priced cameras don't offer (like a panorama function which lets you connect up to 10 pictures to make one BIIIG picture) It's 1.3MP give you a sufficiently high resolution for home use, the 1.8" LCD monitor lets you view your pix in a variety of ways (9 different pix as thumbnails; one pic at a time or you can even zoom in and view any pic magnified 3 times). There are all kind of different flash modes (incl. red-eye-reduction, ...

I have just purchased this camera from my local electronics store, the thing is so technical you need to read the manual (or more like the bible) to understand how it works, when you have finally set up the bleeding thing. it takes a nice picture - or so I thought untill I came to print the piccy out, so I changed to settings again, had another read of the "bible" with the settings changed I took some more pictures, I then printed them out again, this time the results were ok, but not as good as I was lead to thinking, I then left my camera switched off. Later I decided to have another play, to my horror I found all the settings go back to the original ...