Olympus FE-140 6MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4.5 x 1 x 3 inches ; 12 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000EA0EM0
• Item model number: FE140
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #8,175 in Camera & Photo (See Bestsellers in Camera & Photo)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 26, 2006

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

From the Manufacturer The latest models of Olympus's FE line of point-and-shoot digital cameras combine ease-of-use, style, and performance to deliver a seamless digital experience. The 6.0-megapixel FE-140 produces high-quality images at affordable prices. But one of its greatest assets is its built-in Help Guide that can take users from menus that describe the camera's functions directly to the settings needed to take a picture (without the need to carry a manual along).

Built-in Help Guide for Easy Operation
The enhanced Help Guide on the FE-140 camera incorporates a built-in manual that explains all of the terminology of specific functions; a reference that explains the preprogrammed scene modes; and a tutorial shooting guide that educates users on how to accomplish specific effects, such as shooting into backlight and adjusting coloration. The shooting guide not only provides detailed descriptions for various photographic scenarios, but also actually sets the camera with the touch of a button, making the transition from learning to doing instantaneous.

The large 2.5-inch LCD can double as a picture viewer-- perfect for sharing pictures on the fly.

One-Touch Design--Quick and Easy Access with Individual Buttons
The FE-Series cameras feature an easy-to-use One-Touch design with individual buttons for shooting, reviewing, and deleting images conveniently located on the top of the cameras with icons so that frequently used functions can be accessed easily. The Help Guide, direct print, zoom, and delete options are at your fingertips. Macro mode, Flash mode, and a self-timer are located on an arrow pad for quick use while setting up the perfect composition.

Pre-Set Shooting Modes Make It Easy to Capture Great Images
The inclusion of 22 shooting modes, accessible via a rotating dial and menu button on the back of the camera, makes it easy to capture great images in a variety of lighting situations, such as Sunset, Portrait, and Night Scene. QuickTime Movie mode enables users to create short movies of events that can be e-mailed to family and friends.

Digital Image Stabilization Mode
The FE-140 features Digital Image Stabilization Mode for capturing crisp, clear pictures--free from the blur sometimes caused by camera shake or moving subjects--with high ISO sensitivity and fast shutter speed.

The FE-140's slim design--it's a mere 1.0 inch thick--makes it easy to carry in a small purse or a pocket. (Shown here from top.)

Large LCD Provides Clear Images
The large 2.5-inch LCD makes it easier to see clear images when composing shots, as well as when gathering friends and family around to view the results, all without having to lug a laptop around to present your portable photo gallery exhibit.

Total 12x Seamless Zoom
The 3x optical zoom lens of the FE-140 camera is a 6.3 to 18.9mm (38 to 114mm equivalent in 35mm photography) that combines with a 4x digital zoom to deliver a total 12x zoom, so virtually no photo opportunity is out of reach. The high-resolution CCD image sensor captures all the details in your images to create prints without a loss of clarity. The cameras produce high-quality prints that can be cropped and enlarged to 14 by 19 inches.

Fast Response with TruePic TURBO Image Processor
The millions of pixels on the CCD image sensors of the FE-140 integrate with Olympus's exclusive image processor, TruePic TURBO, to significantly enhance image quality and deliver faster overall processing speeds for rapid startup, shutter release, and playback. TruePic TURBO enables the cameras to capture information from every pixel with pixel "micro-smoothing" that delivers clearer and more color-accurate photos, even at lower resolutions. Superb high-quality images that are consistently sharp and vivid even in large-format prints are the result. The fast startup and nearly instant shutter release time ensure a high-speed response, so you'll always be ready to take great pictures.

In-Camera Editing Features
The new FE-Series enables users to add colorful borders and titles on their images, adjust brightness and saturation, crop and resize images, switch from color to black and white or sepia, even fix red-eye--all without using a computer.

Simple Connection to PC
Connecting any FE-Series camera to a computer is easy with the USB Autoconnect feature, which connects the camera directly via USB 2.0 cable and requires no software.

Olympus Master Software
On a Windows PC or Mac, Olympus Master software provides the ultimate in digital imaging management. An intuitive user interface makes downloading to your computer quick and simple. Images are searchable by date or keyword in the Calendar View. With one-click editing tools, such as red-eye reduction, images can be touched up before printing or e-mailing. Online support, templates, and other user services are just a click away.

Product Description

Take great pictures right out of the box with the FE-140. Its Built-in Help Guide will steer you toward the perfect mode for capturing the perfect results, results you can print in a snap - or rather, a press - with just a touch of the Easy Print button. You can even share pictures and short movies amongst friends and family on the camera's big 2.5" LCD screen, instead of waiting to download them to a PC first.With the press of a Help button, get brief descriptions of each camera's features. Or use the tutorial to help you quickly choose the ideal setting so you get the best results.Connect to any PictBridge-enabled printer and turn those pictures into great-looking prints with the touch of a single button.With this big screen it's even easier to preview, frame, shoot and share pictures, not to mention use the camera's menu when necessary.Take a crisp, clear picture with high sensitivity and fast shutter speed even if your subject is moving.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

54 of 64 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars So Promising, So Very Disappointing., April 9, 2006

By	NewsView (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

With the Olympus name, 6 megapixels, a local price of less than $200, 22 shooting modes, and a user interface that is so simple you don't need to read the manual, I expected to love the FE-140. Unfortunately, I chose the wrong initial test subject. On the Olympus Website, I read that in macro mode you can shoot objects as close as 5cm, so I decided to take some photos of a ring. Virtually nothing turned out. Rather, the pics looked as if I set the camera to "self timer", tossed it straight up and waited for the shutter to snap mid air - and all this despite "image stabilization" as one of the FE-140's advertised features. Needless to say, I was shocked. The last time I was in the market for a digital camera - in 2000 - I walked away with a 1.3MP point-and-shoot that has absolutely no image stabilization, no manual controls and no macro, but to this day, dying battery and disk drive notwithstanding, can still manage to focus on small objects, such as jewelry, with surprisingly good results.

At first I thought my FE-140 was defective, but then, buried in a PDF on the included CD-ROM, I discovered a disclaimer to the effect that it may not focus well on reflective surfaces. So much for my budding idea of using the FE-140 to sell jewelry over the Internet. This camera is going back.

As for "regular shots", I didn't take many. Additionally, the photos I took were limited to indoors. What I can report is that while the color was a vast improvement over my old camera, the images produced by the FE-140 appeared a tad bit soft. Using my bulky but trusty 1.3MP Panasonic PV-SD4090, I have been able to shoot pics of my parakeets - with details in the feathers - that I can't seem to capture with the FE-140. I know the FE-140's mild softening serves to reduce the appearance of noise, but personally I prefer crisper images, even at the risk that they appear somewhat pixelated. It's simply easier to compensate in Photoshop for a camera that oversharpens than to find that I have no choice but to live with a camera that is incapable of making each spec of dust stand out (close up, that is).

After doing additional research, I'm heading out to purchase a Fujifilm F10, which is on clearance here at Amazon to make way for its newest incarnation, the Fujifilm F30.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice Little Camera, July 5, 2006

By	TRS (OR USA) - See all my reviews

I am amazed by the other poor reviews, as we really like this little camera! We got it for my grade school son, who loves to take photos. I have a much fancier and nicer camera, and I still enjoy the photos that this one takes.

It is easy to use. It has lots of useful settings. It is small and compact. And, in my opinion, the photos look really nice.

My son is young. He is not particularly steady holding the camera. Yet, he is taking a great many nice looking photos, which are not blurry, look good to the adult eye, and print nicely.

I'm really finicky about grain, sharpness, etc. (which is why I have a very nice Olympus C-8080 for myself), and I'm just not unhappy at all with the photos that this smaller, cheaper Olympus takes.

For the price, I consider it to be a nice little camera.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Easy to use but limited in skills, May 2, 2006

By	Antonio "Tony" (ITALY, Rome) - See all my reviews

I bought this camera thinking of Olympus as a good product at a reasonable price.
Eventually after having used for a very short time I noticed that it did not meet my needs and requirements.
On one hand this camera is straightforward to use, handy and easy to carry in your pocket.
Functions and programs are ready to use. On the other hand grainy and blench colours were quite present on all my shots, even if I used proper program and lots of care while taking pictures. The shutter made me crazy: in many cases images presented moved subjects. After 7 days I had my money back!