Olympus Reviews

Buying this kit will save you some time but you can put together your own kit from seperate generic components and save around $20.00. This includes buying an 8 meg Smartmedia card versus the rather outdated 2 meg card included in this kit.

I just wanted to let you know how happy I was when I found your website through Copernic. I previously bought a JVC Digital Video Camera and their website was so unhelpful and so empty in information. I returned the camera and bought the Olympus D-340R and I am sure I'll keep it just from viewing your site and the reviews and how easy it is to locate the accessories and so fourth... thank you

Olympus 200-523 Accessory Kit for D340R es el mejor complemento si usted quiere proteger su valiosa camara, además la ofrecen con una memoria de 2MB y en realidad le dan a uno una de 8MB lo cual es una economia a la hora de hacer cuentas..

We have purchased a few of these chargers for our department digital cameras (olympus) and every one of them is broken. The thin plastic cover which activates an interlock, breaks at the hinge point and doesn't make contact sometime. Just when you think the batteries are charged, and ready for swapping out, you find that the cover prevented the process from initiating and now all of the batteries are dead. Not too good.

After reading the online reviews, I found a similar product for $19.99 at a local store. The charger is an Energizer ACCU RECHARGEABLE™ and can charge 1 to 4 AA and AAA or 2 9 volts in either NiMH(Nickel-Metal Hydride) or NiCd(Nickel-Cadmiun). The batteries can be left in the charger, keeping the battries at full charge. Product part number is UPN-3076814.

I'm the kind of person who leaves batteries in a charger andforgets about them till I need them. I think most people are likethat. The worst feature of this product is you cannot leave the batteries in it for more than 48 hours without damaging them! I'm sorry but I've got other things to worry about besides checking batteries' charge status.

The "Universal Battery Charger (23-419)" can do 4, and is half the cost of the Olympus. The "Rechargeable Battery Fast Charger (23-422)" can do 8, which, considering the way the D-340R eats batteries, you might want. It is almost the price of this model here, but with twice the capacity. Neither come with NiMH batteries.

After returning the Olympus charger, I got the size 8 one and it works fine. The batteries are sold separately but you will still come out ahead.

Do yourselves a favor, skip this one

SmartMedia is sold under several brands. Olympus branded SmartMedia allows you to take "panorama" shots. Essentially, you take multiple shots while making sure to overlap edges. You then reassemble these multiple shots using the "Camedia" software that came with your Olympus camera. The difference is that when an Olympus brand SmartMedia card is used, your digital camera keeps exposure settings constant across these multiple shots; which makes for a consistent panorama when you reassemble the individual shots via your computer.

This is a nice feature, but not a feature most of us use often; for example, on a recent two week trip, I took 220 shots of which only 12 were panorama. If you are going to purchase multiple SmartMedia cards, you might be able to do with just one or two Olympus brand cards - especially since they cost more than other brands. I use two other brand SmartMedia cards, and save my Olympus brand cards for when panorama shots present (since you can switch the cards out at anytime - unlike traditional camera film).

Also to realistically determine what the price premium is, check prices for Olympus and other brand SmartMedia not only here, but also at other popular commercial sites.

These binoculars are incredible. For the price advertised, you cannot get a better buy! They do all that top quality binoculars around that price will get. The lens are incredible, producing an unsurpassed clarity in all conditions, and the zoom is beyond powerful and accurate.

I don't know what the "quality" of this disk is compared to others since it's the only type of disk that my camera will take, but I don't have any complaints about it. What I wanted to mention was that in addition to having the absolute best price, Amazon's package also included a card holder that can keep up to 6 of these disks from getting damaged. Thank you!

Bought this for the Olympus D390 (2.1 MP). Works great! It holds about 220 pictures at 1200x1600 resolution. That's plenty for almost any length trip.

I went with the Olympus brand because we occasionally use the panoramic feature on the camera, only the Olympus brand supports that particular feature. Otherwise, all xD cards are pretty much equal.

I almost bought this item on Ebay from one of those sellers that jack up the shipping costs to compensate for the low cost ot the item. One person out bids you and then your up the creek. This item is cheaper from amazon with the free shipping and you have a reliable known vendor your buying from. Don't be fooled by Ebay...

The card is fine, it works as advertised. And - as always true with digicams, the more memory you have, the merrier!

Having said that, I never liked the way Olympus have implemented 'panorama mode' with proprietary memory cards. Technically, there is no good reason for panorama support requiring special memory cards. For example see Canon's digicams - they give panorama support with any memory card (well, Canon cameras usually use CF rather then SM, but that does not make a difference for this matter), and, with better user interface. So - is this a trick used by Olympus, in their cameras design, to sell more memory cards? perhaps - you'll be the judge.

A little more about panorama mode, Canon vs. Olympus: considering Olympus smartmedia pricing - cost should not be an issue, prices are competitive. As mentioned above, Canon user interface is nicer, how? Well, Olympus cards simply lock exposure at the first frame, and give minimal 'stitch guide' support in the format of thin red frames at both sides of the LCD display. That's it. Canon adds the following: panoramic sequences have distinct file names, so that you can identify the sequences more easily, second, they support right to left / left to right / vertical / or four frame 'square' sequence. last, and IMHO, best of all - depending on the direction of the sequence, the camera LCD 'freezes' on one side of the display, an image of the edge of the previously captured frame, and shows 'live' viewfinder on the rest of the LCD, letting you calmly adjust better stitch with no need to try and remember where the last frame ended.

The only difference between the Olympus and other brands of SmartMedia cards is that only the Olympus SmartMedia card supports the Panorama function of the camera (see owners manual for details, but basically it allows you to stitch up to 10 images together into a panoramic image). If you never use this feature just buy the less expensive memory. If you have a need for panoramas, and already have one Olympus card, use that Olympus card for panoramas, and buy the less expensive SmartMedia cards for all your other photo needs. As an example, on Amazon, the Viking 128MB card is ... cheaper than the Olympus.

I love my Olympus digital cameras (I now have two), and I enjoy having lots of room on the card and not having to think whether or not I've got the right card to do panorama shots. However, I use an external PCMCIA card reader to copy the picture files to my computer, and I recently made the mistake of copying some files from the computer back onto the smartmedia card. After that the camera would not recognize the card, and Olympus is unwilling to offer assistance. They say my card just got corrupted and I need to buy a new one.