I was given this Olympus camera for christmas 2 years ago and as a student it is the perfect camera. It is light weight, does not look cheap, produces a reasonable quality of picture and charges very quickly. For its price the product is worth buying, it is very good for first time camera owners as it is simple and easy to use, no fuss when you want to upload the pictures to the computer and the viewing screen of the pictures is of very good size. Furthermore it encompasses all basic but vital aspects you want from a digital camera, such as a decent zoom, the flash works very well and it has a quick working display which I have not had with previous digital ...  Read the complete review

I purchased this camera Christmas 2010, what can i say- it was returned Boxing Day 2010! When buying a camera, i assumed that the higher the mega-pixel the better quality the camera. How wrong was i. The screen back light is dull and pixelated, the zoom option immediately becomes pixelated so not of any use and the photos easily blur. In fact only one of the many settings is of any use, that being the manual one. So you don't get much picture options. I have a two year old seven mega-pixel Samsung digital camera and it performs a lot better then the Olympus fourteen mega-pixel camera. I'm not very clued up on technology when it comes to camera, ...  Read the complete review