Product reviewsOlympus FE FE-100 4.0MP Digital Camera - Silver

put in batteries and switched on and off we go[ excellent value]

complete with instructions and wee carry bag

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Olympus FE100

This camera wasa good purchase and upon receiving the camera and taking a few photos it was quite apparent that, even being only a 4 MP camera, it was actually far better in both picture quality and ease of use than my 6 MP Hitachi camera. The overall look and feel of the camera was sturdy and robust and during pictures taken at night, it once again out-shone my 6 MP Hitachi. The quality of night pictures was very good and was able to cope with taking pictures in a dark room from a couple of meters away without losing any picture integrity, with my other camera you literally have to be stood within a couple of feet or it becomes very grainy and even changing the ISO settings didn't help. Now for the not so good. About a week after receiving the camera i put it in my bag to go to work and upon taking it out to take a few snaps i noticed that a dark inky splodge had appeared inside the flash and hence since then the flash has failed to work. I can only presume that the bulb had broken but could not be sure as i'm no camera expert. Thankfully that is about the only problem i have had with the camera. I am sure there are far superior cameras out there but for a cheap camera to take out for snaps in both daylight and at night i couldn't be more impressed. I am saying this on the assumption that the flash incident is an isolated one and i was just unlucky.Read full review...

SELLER AND PRODUCT OLYMPUS DIGITAL 4 PIXEL FE100

FIRSTLY I HAD HELPFUL COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE SELLER, REALLY HONEST.
THE CAMERA IS A REALLY GREAT CAMERA, IT IS COMPACT AND PRODUCES VERY GOOD PHOTOS - THE SOFT WEAR IS VERY EASY TO INSTALL AND IF YOU HAVE VISTA YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE SOFT WEAR FROM THE OLYMPUS.COM SITE AS WELL SO IT IS COMPATIBLE
HAS MANY SIMPLE OPTIONS TO USE AND ALSO VIDEO.
GREAT PRODUCT
I AM SO PLEASED AS I DID GET IT AT A VERY GOOD PRICE VALUERead full review...

New camera

I was looking for a camera with up to 5 megapixels, decent flash, removeable memory card & compatible with standard batteries, all for under £50. I found this, & with the exception of having to fork out extra for the XD memory card, I was well chuffed!!!! I took over 160 pix on my first night out wi it in a club where the pix often get smoky due to the smoke machine, these were as clear as a bell!!!! Looked like there was room on a 1gig card for loads more too!!! Easy to use as long as ya invest in quality batteries like Duracell, cheap ones last for 1 photo!!!!! Easy to install on an XP operated computer too!!! Pix are all in JPG format making them easier to store & upload!!! All in all, works well, comes with all ya need plus a wee bit more (notable exception: the memory card), & a joy to use!!!Read full review...

Great starter camera

This is a great little camera. I've bought 2 now for my kids to use (age 8 & 9) and they love them. Not the smallest camera, but that means they have a better grip. They can click away, delete the bad shots on-camera, zoom and even do little videos. Downside is the vids have no sound. Std alkaline batteries don't last too well either but rechargeable AA's are cheap now :) Film would have cost more in developing in the first week than I paid for both cameras put together! Picture quality is good because the lens is good and I never print bigger than 6 x 4 so 4Mp is plenty. If you want super-fast shooting, huge zoom ability and massive mega pixels you'll need to look elsewhere, but I love these cameras, they're tough, simple and good quality.A 128Mb memory card will give 130 pics at max quality, my 2Gb card gives 2063 pics at max 4Mp! If your kids keep pestering to borrow your camera, buy them an FE100 - it's a brilliant starter camera.Read full review...

Good low cost unit, but fragile.

PRO: Easy to use, small, excellent macro and super macro, decent battery life,
Low light focus and general focus is superb. Enough built in memory for most.

CON: Fragile, Sticky out lens is easily bashed and the design is unforgiving.
On/off and Photo buttons switches are cheap-n nasty and die if bashed (no surprise there).

Firmware updates from Olympus requires loader SW that can prove difficult to find on the net. If firmware download fails camera is frapped.Read full review...

Olympus FE-100 Digital Camera

I had bought about 5 of these cameras brand new to take abroad for friends. They loved them and I got to like the camera too. So easy to use. Feels chunky, not fragile, yet compact. Very clear viewing screen. Takes natural colour photos. Flash photos are good. So, I ended up buying same camera for myself and for my daughter. It's good enough for my needs.Read full review...

An absolute bargain. So say I'm thrilled would be an understatement!!

This camera was an absolute bargain that I bought off ebay. I use this exclusively for taking pics for my ebay listings and was mortified when my original camera 'packed' up. Having worked with this camera for so many years, I was only looking to replace it as I was so used to its ease of use. You can imagine just how pleased I was to pick it up for such a bargain price. The camera had seen very little use and was received in the original packaging along with all the accessories.

Like I said, an absolute bargain - I'm absolutely thrilled with it!!Read full review...

Brilliant little camera, even for astro photography!!!

This camera takes very clear pictures that can stand a lot of magnification.

It even takes great pictures of the night sky, showing stars of magnitude 3 and a little beyond, using the night scene mode. There is very little (if any) bloom, the dark sky is black everywhere that it should be.

I was very impressed, I have only previously been able to take Astronomy photographs with cameras that have lots of shutter and aperture options. For a camera to get stars focused and contrasted automatically is truly remarkable.Read full review...

Olympus FE-100 Digital Camera

This is third Olympus FE-100 Digital Camera I have bought. It is a very useful little camera that I carry all the time to take photographs of items I am researching or portraits/landscapes. It can take very close-up detailed photographs of insects or jewellery etc. The photographs that I have enlarged to A4 size have good definition. I originally bought two so that I can take stereo photographs by fixing the two together on a rig. I lost one of the cameras during a search at an airport so I had to buy this as a replacement.Read full review...