Olympus FE-280

8.00 Megapixels   3.00X optical zoom lens   2.5 inch LCD

The FE-280 is fraction of Olympus' summer 2007 foreword of no less than nine customer cameras. It is a super-slim plan that offers a bit of all to appeal to a broad variety of customers. And an good-looking 8-megapixel camera with a catalog price of US$199.99 is surely welcome.

So what did Olympus come up by means of to create this camera so attractive? First, there is an all-metal corpse that is merely 0.65 inches thick. Customers seem to similar to those little slivers of cameras that healthy absolutely all over the place, and that surely applies to the FE-280. Olympus adds to the chart appeal by contribution the FE-280 in four colors: silver, black, blue and red. We'd choose the red one, other than everyone determination has their own favorite.

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Overall description

The FE-280 has a little trail of just 3.6 x 2.4 inches -- hardly larger than a praise card -- and it is merely 0.65 inches broad. It too weighs less than four ounces with no the series and a bit additional with it. You can get it anywhere and it'll by no means be in the way. 8-megapixel is abundance enough to crop to your heart's happy and still end up by means of sufficient resolution for a nice turn out. Use the filled 8-megapixel and you can get huge enlargements. The FE-280 has a normal 3X visual zoom that can be digitally multiplied to 12X. The spectacles all look quite high-quality The camera can shoot at very high 1600 ISO compassion, you can expose up to four seconds when you employ the Night scene form, and the Olympus Tropic III Image computer chip makes for considerably improved clearness, color, and quickness.

Features

The days at what time cameras shut to the bottom finish of a product array didn't offer a great deal in terms of skin are coming to an end. The FE-280 offers fairly a bit, and a number of its features were not obtainable on digital cameras of some price now a few years before.

One region that seems all the fury these days is countenance discovery. This means that the camera has cleverness build in that can decide which region of a image is a face. This comes in useful when you shoot portrait under less than ideal illumination conditions as the camera will create sure that the countenance is pointed and correctly exposed. Astonishingly, the camera even keeps track of face when the subjects are touching. There is in fact also a "Smile" scene form where the camera fast takes three pictures, most probably not to miss valuable and often brief smiles.

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