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Olympus FE-240 CNET

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A review of the Olympus FE-240 (black) 7-Megapixel digital camera has been posted over at CNET. 'The FE-240's performance ranged from mediocre to terrible. After a 2.6-second start-up time, we could only fire off a shot every 5.1 seconds; that painful wait increased to 5.7 seconds with the onboard flash enabled. While 5 seconds is indeed far too long to wait between shots, it's not too surprising; the previous-generation FE-200 had shot-to-shot times of more than 7 seconds. The shutter wasn't nearly as responsive as it should have been, lagging 0.8 second on our high-contrast target and 1.9 seconds in low-contrast conditions. Like almost all Olympus FE-series cameras, the FE-240 doesn't have any burst mode.

Though its performance was disappointing, the FE-240's images were actually quite nice. Colors were accurate and neutral--even indoors, a tricky thing to accomplish with a camera's automatic white balance. Fine details came through clearly, and we saw very little lens distortion. Because of its fully automated operation, we couldn't perform our full regimen of noise tests, but given adequate lighting, photos had very little grain or fuzz. Just be careful when shooting in low light; the camera automatically ramps up the ISO sensitivity, generating lots of noise.'

Features/Specifications:
• 7.1 Megapixel, up to 3072 x 2304 640x480 at 30fps
• 5x Optical, 4x Digital zoom 6.4 - 32mm Lens, 6 lenses in 8 groups
• Aperture Range: f3.3 - f5.0
• 2.5-inch Color 115K LCD
• Shutter Speed: Auto 1/2000 seconds- 4 seconds
• ISO Output Sensitivity: Auto 50 - 1000
• Recording Modes: Exif 2.21, PIM3, JPEG Still Image & AVI Motion JPEG with Audio
• 16 Shooting Modes: Program Auto, Scene Presets (Portrait, Landscape, Night & Portrait, Indoor, Candle, Self-Portrait, Sunset, Sport, Fireworks, Cuisine, Documents, Behind Glass, Auction), Digital Image stabilization Mode and Movie
• Panorama: Up to 10 frames automatically stitchable with Olympus brand xD-Picture Card
• Built-in flash Modes: Auto, Red-Eye Reduction, Fill-In, Off
• Self-Timer: 12 Seconds
• 20MB internal memory
• Power Supply: Li-ion Rechargeable Battery (LI-42B)
• System Requirements: Windows 98SE, ME, 2000 PRO, XP, VISTA, Mac OS 9.0-9.2x, OS X 10.1-10.4 or higher
• Dimensions: Width 3.7 x Height 2.2 x Depth 0.79 inch
• Weight: 4.1 ounces (115 grams) without Batteries and media card '

Read: Olympus FE-240 (black)

Posted by Slash Scope Admin on March 8, 2007 1:50 AM |

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