Olympus SP-320 7.1 Megapixel Compact Camera

A big screen light camera

Strengths: It is light compare with my first olympus camera. The 2.5' LCD appears big enough

Weakness: The color is black. The surface material seems to plastic. I am afraid it may be broken when it falls to solid ground.

This camera is my sencond Olympus product. I did not have any problems on the first one for 2 years before I gave to my young sister. This camera has some good features: 1, The len push out and back quickly and quietly. 2, There are tweenty five occasion models to be used 3, This camera can get the nice picture until lens closes 2 cm to the target. Bad things: It needs xD memory card but not SD....
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This camera is my sencond Olympus product. I did not have any problems on the first one for 2 years before I gave to my young sister. This camera has some good features:
1, The len push out and back quickly and quietly.
2, There are tweenty five occasion models to be used
3, This camera can get the nice picture until lens closes 2 cm to the target.

Bad things:
It needs xD memory card but not SD. The price 2GB xD is almost half of this camera.

By venddier - Jun 18, 2007

A tremendous "bang for the buck" digital camera

Strengths: Everything on this camera is at least good if not excellent performing-no suprises outside the reviews posted here.

Weakness: very simple. aa disposable batteries are eaten alive by this camera. olympus has a download patch, but you can buy a smart charger and 4 sanyo 2700mah batteries to fix.

I have to admit I just love this camera, I just do. Its easy to use, intuitive, has shortcuts that save you time and steps over other cameras. You can do some cool stuff on the camera lcd, like crop, zoom in to each person's eyes and make sure they were open by moving within the picture just taken. Camera makes it super easy to find a picture you took months ago- just look at the calender. I am...
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I have to admit I just love this camera, I just do. Its easy to use, intuitive, has shortcuts that save you time and steps over other cameras.

You can do some cool stuff on the camera lcd, like crop, zoom in to each person's eyes and make sure they were open by moving within the picture just taken. Camera makes it super easy to find a picture you took months ago- just look at the calender.

I am so impressed with the 7.1 megapixel resolution- very simply put it makes you a better photographer if you have average or even below average camera skills.

I'd suggest you get a smart charger & above batteries as well as a 1gb olympus xd card. It will store 500+ max resolution pictures on the xd card- in other words an entire vacation or entire summer.

If you are Paris Hilton keep searching, but it you are an average joe or someone too busy to evalute dozens of cameras and spend a hundred hours looking for the best- its here. I use Nikons at work (testing technician) and i think you will love this camera more & more as you use it.

By averagejoey - Nov 25, 2006

Great overall

Strengths: High res, big LCD, viewfinder, AA batteries

Weakness: If it has a timer, I have not found it

This is a fantastic all around camera. My search was limited to small body cameras that my wife could carry in her purse. I wanted at least 6 MP and 3x zoom (which is about all you can get on a small body camera). Then I narrowed the search to cameras using standard AA batteries, because keeping the camera charged and ready at all times is difficult for us. Then I looked for a large and bright...
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This is a fantastic all around camera. My search was limited to small body cameras that my wife could carry in her purse. I wanted at least 6 MP and 3x zoom (which is about all you can get on a small body camera). Then I narrowed the search to cameras using standard AA batteries, because keeping the camera charged and ready at all times is difficult for us. Then I looked for a large and bright LCD and there were still several choices. But when I added my requirement of a viewfinder, there were almost no choices left. Many of the digicam reviews talk about how hard it is to see the LCD in bright sunlight, yet cameras without viewfinders are dominating this segment of the market - go figure.

Anyway, I am getting decent battery life and the picture quality has exceeded my expectations. The internal memory is limited, but xD cards are not very expensive as many reviews say. I have an olympus voice recorder and one other device using xD, plus my new Dell notebook reads xD cards, so I am gaining some interchangeability beteween devices, in a pinch.

If it has a timer for self portaits, I have not found it.

Too early to tell if the image stabilizer does much

By arthurzuniga - Sep 2, 2006

Olympus SP-320

Strengths: Ease of use, image stablization a plus!

Weakness: Can't really think of any @ the moment.

I enjoy this camera; the pictures are clear. 7.1 megapixel is great and I like the 2.5" LCD screen as well. Versatility with the shooting modes is also a plus! It suits my needs!

By Leighton1 - Jul 30, 2006

awesome camera

Strengths: in camera cropping,calendar,guide menu,compact, and frames to add around you picture. you can also add lenses.

Weakness: AA batteries. best to get a lithium crv3 battery last for a couple months or rechargeable batteries.

Great camera for the money. Has tons of features that aren't hard to use and you can get a high speed card which allows it to take panaroma photos, 3d pictures, snaps faster and different art pictures like turning your current photos into oil paintings.

By lvhlegal - Jun 27, 2006