Unreliable, slow selection - not the camera for me (Olympus SP-350)

Member Name: Lacci

Product:	Olympus SP-350
Date:	10/09/09 (9 review reads)
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Advantages: The number of functions available

Disadvantages: The amount of time it takes to access the additional functions.

Having finally agreed with my husband that a brand new digital camera was absolutely necessary, he went out of his way to review the guides available online as well as in magazine form.

Its a man thing, I thought and left him to it.

I most certainly learnt my lesson from that.

This product is most certainly easily managed as a one click option, however, should you wish to practice your photographic abilities, you have all possible digitalised functions available.

Unfortunately this means a long sequence of button pushing and any moving target will have dissappeared by the time you get around to pushing the button.

This camera does not come with a case of any form and you cannot cover up the lense, bar the inbuilt shutter. It does make it feel very frail.

In addition we have had this camera now for 18 months and it has failed on us again. We have had to return it to the manufacturer twice with an incorrectly formated processor.

Even though the photographic results are fantastic, we have unfortunately found that this camera is not worth the money you pay for it. The picture quality is brilliant, however, if you want something fairly handy with a decent number of functions, this is not it.

Summary: Choose this camera if you do not wish to photgraph living objects.

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