Olympus FE-26 12MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom and 2.7 inch LCD (Pink)

by Olympus

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 2.4 x 1 x 3.8 inches ; 5.8 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B002HWRKRU
• Item model number: FE-26 Pink
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,086 in Camera & Photo (See Top 100 in Camera & Photo)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 21, 2009

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Whether you’re enjoying a wedding or a fun weekend afternoon, the new Olympus FE-26 will consistently capture extraordinary, in-focus pictures of your family and friends. Inside their new premium crystal shell finish, the FE-26 packs 12 megapixels, creative in-camera Magic Filters like Pop Art and Pin Hole that make your images stand out, and new AF Tracking that keeps kids, pets, tossed wedding bouquets and other fast-moving objects in focus.

Olympus FE-26 Highlights

Always Stay Focused
The new AF Tracking technology locks your subject in focus, and continuously adjusts focus and brightness whether you or your subject are moving. This mode can remember the subject if it moves out of the frame. This enables you to keep fast-moving and unpredictable subjects like small children in focus for the perfect shot. There's even a specially designed AF Tracking "Pet Mode" for animal lovers.

Express Your Inner Artist with Magic Filters
In-camera Creative Features recently debuted on Olympus E-System DSLR (digital single lens reflex) cameras. Similar in-camera Magic Filters have been developed for the new FE cameras. The new Magic Filters enable the user to enhance and customize images as they're being captured. This translates into more fun and flexibility as customization is no longer limited to using expensive and time-consuming computer software.

The new Magic Filters include:

• Pop Art: Enhance and saturate colors to create vivid, high-impact pictures that express the joyful, lighthearted feeling of the Pop Art style of the 1960s
• Pin Hole: Reduce the peripheral brightness of an image as though it were shot through a pin hole, connecting the viewer intimately with the subject at the center

Intelligent Auto Thinks For You
Tired of changing the settings on your camera every time you're shooting something different? The new cameras' Intelligent Auto Mode automatically identifies what you are shooting (Portrait, Landscape, Night + Portrait, Macro, Sports) and adjusts settings to capture the best quality results depending on the situation. First-time users will enjoy this quick and hassle-free feature, which does the thinking for them and produces incredible images like a pro.

In Sunshine or Shadows, Never Miss a Detail
Photographers know that shooting scenes with both highlights and shadows can be tricky because of the extreme contrast between dark and bright areas. When using Intelligent Auto on any of the new FE cameras, Shadow Adjustment Technology is automatically activated to address this challenge. It adjusts for extreme light variations and maintains visible detail in both the shadow and highlight areas of the scene.

Always Find a Face in the Crowd
The new camera's Advanced Face Detection reduces the chance of blurred subjects in photography by distinguishing between people's faces and the background. It tracks up to 16 faces within the image area, even if people are moving, and automatically focuses and optimizes exposure for sharp, brilliant portrait pictures (ideal for large family or group photos).

Perfect Fix In-Camera Editing
The FE-26 offers Red-Eye Fix, Lighting Fix, Resizing and Cropping so photographers can edit images right in the camera without the need for any editing software.

Versatile Memory
The new FE cameras offer the flexibility to use either xD-Picture Card or microSD memory cards, which is just one more advantage of Olympus point-and-shoot cameras.

Easy Operation and Help Guides
The new FE cameras feature enhanced In-Camera Help Guides that make digital photography simple and fun for users of all ages and skill levels. In addition to the Help Guide that displays a brief description of camera settings and features on the LCD, all three cameras allow consumers to easily adjust ISO and white balance settings using the Program Auto mode. Additionally, Exposure Compensation enables users to preview and select various exposure effects on a live, multi-frame window on the LCD before snapping the shot. This smart feature allows users to see precisely what the image will look like when adjustments are made, ensuring they are capturing the exact image desired. Program Auto and Exposure Compensation are great modes that enable novice users to get results like the pros while learning about the effects of different photography techniques. Menus are available in 39 languages for convenient operation.

Olympus Master 2 Software
Use the included Olympus Master 2 software (Mac and PC) to easily download images from the camera or other external device, such as a USB drive, and automatically organize them into albums, edit and print. Update camera and lens firmware through the software and download additional menu languages. A direct link makes uploading your images and videos to YouTube easier than ever.

Product Description

Affordable Fun for Everyone. The FE-26 not only puts the fun back into everyday photography, but also focuses more attention on achieving the best resultsâ?"no matter what your level of photographic skill. Intelligent Auto + Shadow Adjustment Technology, AF Tracking and many other great features put picture-taking magic right in your hands.

AF TRACKING.
The camera automatically tracks the movements of frequently-moving subjectsâ?"kids and pets, for instanceâ?"and continuously adjusts the focus and brightness so that theyâ?TMre captured clearly and sharply with ease.

INTELLIGENT AUTO + SHADOW ADJUSTMENT.
The two technologies combine to identify the type of scene youâ?TMre going afterâ?"for instance, Portraits, Landscapes, Night + Portraits, Macro or Sportâ?"and automatically adjusts the cameraâ?TMs setting to achieve the best results possible.

ADVANCED FACE DETECTION.
The camera can track up to 16 faces in one shot and then automatically sets the focus and exposure to optimize the clarity of every face in the frame.

DIGITAL IMAGE STABILIZATION.
With higher ISO sensitivity and faster shutter speeds, you can capture sharp, blur-free images, even when your subject is on the move.

MAGIC FILTER.
Get creative with artistic filter effects such as Pop Art, Pinhole or Wedding.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Generic Photo Taker, November 18, 2009

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Carol Rohe "carohe" (Centerville, IN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Olympus FE-26 12MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom and 2.7 inch LCD (Pink) (Electronics)

I sell on Ebay and I needed something that would do the job and this camera is a nice little camera for that. And it's came in handy for other situations too. With the updated technology, this is probably not for the real professional, but for the one who needs easy pictures to be taken and for more generic items; this will do the job. There is not a lot of storage on the disc either...13 pictures at a time. But I like it for what I need it for.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars No audio, January 18, 2010

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Joseph L. Silva "Joe Silva" (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Olympus FE-26 12MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom and 2.7 inch LCD (Pink) (Electronics)

I got this camera for my daughter, who is 6, because she loves to take pictures and shoot video. I got the camera because of its high resolution, and never thought twice to ensure it actually had audio. One would think a camera that shot video would have audio. Right? Wrong. I guess when they made this, they decided to ad video capture without thinking about the fact that there is no microphone.

I sent it back.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Grandaughter's delight, January 10, 2010

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Jo Ann Masterjohn (Yuba City, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Olympus FE-26 12MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom and 2.7 inch LCD (Pink) (Electronics)

My Grandaughter just loves her camera. Pink, being her color, was a big hit in itself. The fact that it was small and easy to take pictures, gave her reason to sneek it to school and get pictures of all her friends. She's learning the ease of it needs to have it's place though. It's a good purchase. She'll start her photography love, sooner than she expected she was going to.