Customer Reviews

Olympus Stylus 750 7.1MP Digital Camera with Digital Image Stabilized 5x Optical Zoom and CCD Shift Stabilization (Red)

5 star:		(52)
4 star:		(49)
3 star:		(20)
2 star:		(7)
1 star:		(11)

 

 

Got it yesterday. In green. Actually it's a shiney yellowish-green. Nice feel. Fits well in shirt pocket. Very light; particullarly compared to my Pentax Optio 550. Good, nice size LCD. Easy to use yet with nice availability of choices for customization. Well written manual (you can find online thru google) and onboard help menu. Photos come out fairly nice. Tried indoors in low light with several scene settings, outdoors, macro, and supermacro. Colors look true, fairly sharp without noticable artifact. Used in South Florida morning daylight outside without any trouble with LCD viewing (camera has no classic viewfinder). Have read reviews of washout in bright sun: have not tried that yet. Overall, I'm happy with the camera thus far.
*Next Day follow-up: LCD does wash out in bright sunlight. Also it's reflective, making it quite difficut to use. Cupping or baseball hat helps enough to be able to use. I'll definetly order shade screen when Delkin comes out with custom shade for camera. Would lower overall rating to 3 stars if using out in bright sun much.

I purchased this camera to replace an olympus 400. All in all, it takes great pictures. The image stabilization works very well. I took some test shots at dawn from a freeway bridge (low light conditions & bouncing from traffic)and the camera performed excellently. The shots turned out great. Good color saturation, and fairly sharp image. It also is weather resistant as was the 400, which was one of the MAJOR reasons I picked Olympus. I have had a camera "fry" because of a little rain during a picture shoot.
It does seem to go through battery power quicker than I would like, especially if it is being used outdoors in the cold. But I planned ahead for that by buying two extra batteries just for that issue. The lack of an optical viewfinder, screen is in use all of the time, I suspect is a major culprit. I usually turned off the screen on my older camera to conserve battery life.
As with many postings for this and most newer point & shoot cameras, the lack of an optical viewer is a critical flaw if shooting in bright environments. Between the reflected glare, and dim screen images, you just can't see a thing while composing your shot. Just point, shoot, and hope!

I was looking at Digital SLR's for a next camera when I bought this camera. I'm not sure I'm through looking.

I have a Sony Mavica (which I love), but I needed something compact and fairly weatherproof to bring to an archaeological field school. This camera survived lots of blowing sand and dust, some light rain, being banged around in a daypack, and in the process acquired some dents and scratches, yet it still performs like a champ. The photos are fantastic. Yes, the LED screen is VERY difficult to see in bright sunlight--under those conditions you have to feel fairly confident about your ability to compose the shot, and for this reason alone I didn't give it five stars--but thanks to the autofocus and stabilization feature, the photos aren't blurry at all. Please note that although this camera is water-resistant, it is most assuredly NOT WATERPROOF. It will not withstand submersion.

Purchase an extra battery because the battery can't be charged while it's in the camera.

Overall, this is an excellent little compact camera. I'd purchase it again in a heartbeat.

It's hard to pick the actual rating for this camera, and I guess your user experience will depend on what you bought this camera for. After using it for a month, I don't feel this is the "one and only" camera someone would want to own. The reasons: 1) The pictures just aren't coming out all that great, and are often blurry 2) Impossible to take pictures outside in the daylight, no matter how hard you try you can't see the screen in the daylight

Heres why it got 3 out of 5 stars though... this camera has a perfect "niche" if you will. We recently had a very cold, wet snowy weekend in Texas. Since that doesn't happen in my area very often, I wanted to take a bunch of pictures. Well guess who was the only person who could take their camera out in the wet snowy environment? Me! Everyone else was afraid their camera would be ruined. Since the sun was not shining, I could see the view finder just fine, and even though it was getting wet from the snowflakes landing on it, I knew the unit was sealed and weatherproof. It took good pictures in these conditions, and the camera wasn't harmed at all. This camera is also great for party settings, it can sit on the table and you can spill beer after beer and not worry about it.

So IMO this is a good "secondary" camera to have around. If you're looking to buy only one camera, this isn't it.

I've used my 750 for a month now and love it except for one thing. No viewfinder. Most ultra compacts don't have one but in bright sun it's tricky to see the display. I "reshopped" today and found a Canon Elph 800si but - it was only 3x optical zoom not 5x, it weighed more, cost $100 more, had fewer features and scenes (which I really use), wasn't weather resistant and was harder to "figure out". I decided to keep my 750 and just learn how to shield the display better. It takes great shots and the automatic scenes are easy to use and easy to switch among. Much easier than my old Olympus.

I bought Olympus 750 just a few days ago for my wife to replace our old Cannon power shot S400. Reading all these comments regarding the Olympus 750 LCD unusable under bright light I almost did not buy the 750, but then given all the other good features it had to offer and only for $169 on Amazon, I decided to buy it any way. I tried the camera in full California sun and did observe the washout of the LCD, but just today I found the solution. The solution to the LCD screen problem is very simple and I am very surprised no one had discovered it yet. Just go to setup and increase the LCD brightness to maximum (see page 32 of the Manual). I just took the camera outside in full California sun, and I was able to see my subjects fine in the LCD and it was not any worst that my old Canon digital camera.

Compact so it fits in you pocket, high tech enough to dance with it's bigger counterparts. This little camera does it all. I comparison shopped for several weeks comparing and contrasting multiple cameras from cannon, kodak, hp, sony, panasonic, and olympus, and none had features like this, a small size, and in this price range. The upgrades form the old 710 are a 5x optical zoom and 5.6 digital zoom (28x total) for up close, excellent photos, and the dual image stabilization.

7.1megapixels, Dual image stabilization (both digital and optical stabilization for shake free pictures new for the 750 and 760 models), 2.5 inch lcd viewing screen, and a low price what you get. OH, DID I MENTION EXCELLENT PICTURES. I have played with this for several days now editing the photos, paling with the on-board and the computer imaging package, and I see nothing wrong with this camera for an everyday average user like me. And with it's weather resistence, nice for a clumsy average user like me. Also the battery life is very adequate, about 120 photos or more, with slide shows, editing ect... This is well worth the investment, saving your families memories in a fit and proper manner.

The Olympus Master software for you computer is very easy to use, And with panoramic feature, 3d, and Extra ART Features unlocked by Olympus Brand-Olympus Stamped Type H HD, this camera becomes even more of a pleasure to own. you can edit photos on the computer, or right in the palm of your hand. Both ways, this camera will make you feel like a pro in no time.

Pretty awesome - this is compact digital camera #4, and of those I've had, it's also my favourite.

Positives:

- Small enough to take everywhere
- 5x zoom is significantly better than 3x
- Image stabilization really does work - it won't solve all camera shake every time, but if I take the same picture with stabilizer on and off, you can usually see a significant difference
- Weather resistance is awesome - I take it places I would have been afraid to take my last one, so I get more pictures I would have missed otherwise!
- Screen brightens up very well in low light, with my last one, shooting at night was more of a blind guess.
- 1600 ISO is nice - a grainy picture is still way better than a blurry one.

Negatives:

- I wish it had some sort of semi-manual mode, maybe shutter priority or something
- Manual focus is not needed, but being able to set focus to infinity is sometimes handy
- I wish the lens was a 2.8
- Auto white balance indoors with no flash is not very good

Hope that is helpful to somebody

Very versatile to use because of its many features. Easy to use in basic point and shoot mode. Difficult to aim accurately outdoors in bright light because display is washed-out by background light.

I have owned this camera now for a month since buying it here on amazon. It is a great camera and I am very happy with it. The photos it takes are amazing. The video is also very good. It is also very easy to operate. The only thing that is a downer is what others have wrote about the LCD in the daytime, it is hard to see when its sunny.