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Great little camera, easy to thrown in a pocket and take with you. The wide angle lens really comes in handy; the main reason that I choose this camera. The colors really seem to pop in the pictures that I have taken so far, very easy to learn and use camera.

I bought this camera because of the wide-angle lens, Olympus has a good reputation, and I liked the price.

The wide-angle lens is great. It lets you fit more into a shot.

Pictures taken indoors are surprisingly inferior. I know the product description mentions picture stabalization, but I didn't see any sign of it. What I did see was that it's almost impossible to take a good picture indoors in regular indoor lighting conditions. I'm not talking about a few candles, but really normal indoor lighting with a bit of indirect sunlight and a lamp switched on. Without the flash, images come out blurry; and with the flash, items in the foreground are too bright while the background is too dark. This for me was a huge disappointment.

I have no complaints, however, about the pictures this camera takes outdoors. They are stunning, rivaling the ones I used to take with my old SLR, pictures I used to sell to newspapers. They're crisp, and their colors are sharp. This is a great camera for outdoor shots.

The large viewing screen is very nice and makes it easy to see what your picture will look like before you snap it.

The buttons are a bit difficult to figure out, not the worst I've seen, but also far from the best. I don't know why, but I also keep finding my camera has switched itself back to automatic settings after I've changed them to turn the flash off. If I could, I would reset the settings so the flash only turned on when I wanted to use it. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be an option.

All in all, this is a good camera for the price, with a few drawbacks.

There's one more thing I would like to mention: I highly recommend getting the 2GB Olympus XD card with this camera. It's expensive, but it holds 1,000 high quality 8MP pictures. The carrying case is nice and cushiony, but it's really tiny, basically a camera version of a cloth eye-glasses case. You can do without that, but you can't do without the XD card. The camera can't hold more than ten or so pictures without it.

Purchased this camera for use at our plant. Takes excellent pictures, very clear, color fabulous, ease of use. Highly recommdend. Worth the money.

I've had this camera for over a year now, and it's working without any problems. The battery life is remarkable, and the battery lasts for approximately 2 days (with moderate usage of taking and then showing images to all involved).

The only downside -- It is nearly impossible to take a decent picture with this camera (without a tripod) in poor lighting conditions. The stabilization feature does NOT help with this problem.

I bought the Olympus FE-350 because I needed a wider lense than the typical point-and-shoot camera. I was not disappointed. The FE-350 is easy to use and provides great pictures.

I gave the camera a rating of four stars because I need to be able to create panoramas and the Olympus Master software provided with the camera doesn't do that great of a job stitching photos together. I have been getting better results from other photo software using the same pictures. So,the problem isn't all in the pictures I have been taking.

However, the camera yields excellent results in the photos and is easy to use. The camera is a steal for the price.