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| Brand: Olympus
Category: Photography
List Price: $349.99
Buy New: $299.94
You Save: $50.05 (14%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  136 reviews
Color: Silver
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Floppy Disk Drive: None
Includes Software: Yes
Optical Zoom: 3.6
Digital Zoom: 5
Connectivity: AV
Display Size: 2.7
Maximum Focal Length: 18.2
Minimum Focal Length: 5
Maximum Resolution: 10.1
Has Red Eye Reduction: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 3.7 x 0.8 x 2.4
MPN: B0011E87QI
Model: B0011E87QI
UPC: 050332162914
EAN: 0050332162914
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 fails in four hours May 13, 2008
9 out of 20 found this review helpful
We bought an Olympus 1030 for a family trip to the Florida keys which included some snorkling. The camera quit working half way thru the trip with only 3 to 4 hours in water. We were very dissapointed and missed a lot of good photo opps. It is going back.
 Just got it a few days ago.....loving it so far. March 24, 2008
8 out of 13 found this review helpful
I will update my review as I learn more about it. But straight out of the box I love it so far. Easy to use, the pictures I have taken so far are great quality, and it takes much quicker shots than my Sony Cybershot DSC-W90. Happy so far and there is still so many things to test on it.......like the waterproof aspect.
 Poor quality / Good features April 21, 2008
8 out of 14 found this review helpful
The camera has cool features that you will not find on most digital cameras including the fact that it is crush proof, water proof, and freeze proof. These are all great but the quality of the pictures is lacking. I tried many different settings and set the size and the quality to the maximum size but the quality still suffered. I gave this camera 2 stars out of 5 because of the poor quality which is unacceptable for a camera at this price range and also the fact that this is the 3rd generation of these cameras. The quality of the pictures is more important to me than all of the features I mentioned above which is why I returned this camera and purchased a Canon Powershot SD790-IS. My previous camera was a Canon which I loved so I decided to stick with what I know will not disapoint me.
If somewhat grainy and fuzzy pictures do not bother you and you need something that can handle rough terrain, kids, or clumsy hands than this camera is for you. If you are like me and prefer nice quality photographs than I recommend you steer clear.
What a disappointment June 19, 2008
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
I read the reviews about poor, grainy picture quality-they all sounded like they came from more experienced photographers so I figured an amateur like myself would never notice. WRONG! We bought this camera because our old Sony wasn't taking pictures like it used to after being abused by our two young boys for 5 years-even after all that, our old Sony takes better pics at the lowest resolution (under 1 megapixel)in bad lighting than the Olympus at the highest megapixel (10.1) in good lighting. We tried everything and couldnt get a picture that wasn't grainy, at best. Also, DON'T EVEN TRY to take pics at a sporting event-the shutter speed and reset is so slow that I took a picture of my 5 year old son getting handed the football at the 20 yard line and it didn't reset until after he was done celebrating in the end zone. At his Kindergarden graduation he had to walk 100 feet to the podium...I could only take one shot it was SO SLOW. Definitely a DO NOT BUY...a terrible shame considering how cool the Shockproof, Waterproof features are.
Was great until it didn't work anymore June 22, 2008
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
We purchased this for a trip to the Bahamas. It worked fine for about 2 days of mostly land shots. We did try a few underwater shots and got what we expected from a P&S camera. I liked the Scene selection menu for camera settings, it was helpful and improved my ability to take decent shots in a variety of conditions without thinking about settings too much. Solid package, nice controls, would buy again...if I trusted it. We had to buy disposable cameras for the remainder of our trip because in 15 minutes in a 4ft 5in pool (taking photos just below the surface for fun and mostly just using it like I would a water resistant camera, it leaked water into the lens housing. This wasn't enough to fry the electronics...just enough to make the picture all white when taking pictures (foggy is a good descriptor). It also affected the controls because it would zoom in fully automatically each time I turned it on.
I was VERY conscientious of checking the seals for debris or defect and ensureing the memory card and battery were fully seated (because I had read reviews saying people had leaks and others saying they weren't careful enough). It still leaked and it did it around the lens housing (there's no user operated seal there, it's just built in).
The search for a replacement ensues.
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