Olympus SP-310 7.1MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom (Silver)
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- List Price:
- $399.99
- Our Price:
- $214.95
- Savings:
- 46%
- Average Customer Rating:
- 4.0 out of 5
- Manufacturer:
- Olympus
- Release Date:
- 2005-10-15
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- List Price:
- $399.99
- Our Price:
- $214.95
Features
- 7.1-megapixel CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality 15 x 20-inch prints
- 3x optical zoom; 2.5-inch LCD display
- Add optional conversion lenses to the camera's threaded barrels (not included)
- 30 selectable shooting modes, including 27 creative scene options
- Powered by CRV3 battery (included) or two AA-size batteries; stores images on xD-Picture Cards
Description
Whether you're just diving into digital or stepping up your plans, the SP-310 provides quite a comfortable experience. With flexible creative controls and an impressive combination of high-performance features and optical lenses, superb pictures are always just a snapshot away.
Spotlight customer reviews
Good camera
[ Posted: 2007-06-16 ]
The only flaw in this camera is the hook for the battery compartment. It is fairly small and plastic, and it takes very little to make it useless.
However, with that said.. the sliding action of the battery compartment cover still keeps the battery in and functioning.
I was very pleased with the quality & relative simplicity of this camera, excepting the flaw noted above.
This camera is junk
[ Posted: 2007-04-27 ]
Barely after 1 year of ligt use, the lens got stuck (closed) one fine morning after replacing batteries. The lens won't come out. Kept displaying "Zoom Error" and auto-shutting-off. I gave it a real good whack and voila.
Stick with other brand names... I heard good comments about Olympus. Personally I will never go for anything other than Canon or Nikon in future.
Great Camera
[ Posted: 2007-03-28 ]
Just takes a little getting use to it.I like all the features of my old 35mm
SLR which used real film.
Poor battery life
[ Posted: 2006-12-06 ]
The camera has a complete feature list and good image quality. Unfortunately, battery life is so bad it's almost useless. I rarely get more than 25 shots from a set of freshly charged AA rechargables.
I sent the camera to Olympus to have the firmware updated, but it didn't make any discernible difference.
So far not happy...
[ Posted: 2006-10-21 ]
I bought this Olympus camera to update my older Olympus camera. I stayed with Olympus becasue my former camera was such a workhorse. I took tons of picture with it and it took a beating here or there and was dropped a few times. After much research, I went with the SP-310. I was happy with all the features and like that fact that you could do some limited manual settings, such as sperture and flash speed...although I am an amateur so I don't know much about these things. However, one thing I don't like is that in fully automatic mode the camera resets the resolution each time you turn it off and on, which is soemthing the old camera wouldn't do if you turned off the "All Reset" feature. This camera has the same feature, but it doesn't seem like the resolution is part of what is NOT reset??? Maybe I am doing something wrong???
But, my real problem with this camera is the short battery life. No joke, I can take from 10-25 pictures only with new rechargeable NiMH batteries. I know there is a firmware update for this, which I tried but didn't resolve the issue. I just received my camera back from Olympus after the second time of sending it to them, so I will see if anyting has been fixed.
Perhaps, I have a lemon, but the fact that a firmware exists leads me to believe that there is some type of issue with this camera or perhaps a certain amount they have built. Olympus customer service has been so-so, although the last person I talked to from corporate "took care of business."