Olympus FE-170/180/190 Reviews

Let's say you want to spend under US$200 for a new digital camera and have always liked Olympus. You're in luck because this past summer the company announced four new FE-Series point-and-shoot digital cameras. They are all in Olympus' "Easy & Fun" catego...

Huge 3.5-inch primary LCD makes camera a pleasure to use, , Excellent 28-420 mm provides wide angle to massive zoom, , Very powerful battery lasts a long time, , Secondary LCD on top allows hip-level shooting, , Excellent hi-res electronic viewfinder, , S...

No true image stabilization, , Only goes up to ISO 800, , Needlessly sparse menus, almost no online help, , Button labeling hard to see, , Included software marginal, , Large and heavy, , , 10.7X optical zoom no longer seems that much, , Flash should pop

The sleek and slender FE-190 is far sexier than the bulkier lower-end models and it has a lot to offer. But the sleekness also means a spare battery costs a lot more than standard AAs. And, inexplicably, the FE-190 is saddled with a 320 x 240 pixel movie