Olympus FE-46 12MP Digital Camera Pink Crayola Kit with 5x Optical Zoom and 2.7 inch LCD and Silver Case, 64 pack of Crayons and Storage Box Review

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(More customer reviews)I am not a photographer; I bought the camera as a gift for my girlfriend. I did, however, look at a lot of (>100) cameras; my criteria were: (1) < $100 and lower is better, (2) image stabilization, (3) minimum 5x optical zoom, (4) Well rated both by consumers and professional reviewers, (5) Low (and explainable) number of poor reviews.
The only camera that made the final cut was the Olympus FE-46.
My girlfriend has had the camera just less than a week, but she was and is thrilled with it. She is still learning the many options she has, and is slowly mastering them, but has had absolutely no complaints.
Ironically, buying the camera in the "Crayola" package, which included a decent case, was substantially less expensive than simply buying the camera. BTW, for those who may be concerned about buying the "child's package", the camera is packaged in a retail box in the larger box.
The camera also has a tripod mount (although we've not used it), which increases its utility. It also seems to be solidly made, and has an automatic lens cover when powered down reducing the chances of significant damage.
There are only two potential downsides I see so far; first, it uses disposable AA batteries (NiMH rechargeable batteries may be an option), and the proprietary xD media cards is being phased out (the MASD-1 adapter can be used, but may be difficult to replace if lost).

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Olympus FE-46 12MP Digital Camera Blue Crayola Kit with 5x Optical Zoom and 2.7 inch LCD and Black Case, 64 pack of Crayons and Storage Box Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought this camera from qvc. It was a today special value for around $130. I was looking for a camera with a good optical zoom since most of the cameras sold in store are usually 3x. When I recieved the camera I was content with my perchase. I thought it was weird that instead of a regular sized xd card it came with a macro xd card which would fit into an xd adapter. A month or two after using the camera with no real problems, I stopped into a Target store to print out some pictures. When I attempted to put the adapter card into the slot to view and pick out pictures, it wouldnt fit. I went home and tried to put the card into my laptop... it wouldnt fit. The adapter card does not fit into anything else except this camera. I called olympus to see if I just had a deformed adapter. The women told me that no, this was how the card was made. When I asked her if many other people had called about this problem she told me that yes, they have gotten calls for the same problem and the best they could do is send me a new adapter, which is the same as the old one, and won't fit into anything other than this camera. I understand that there are ways to print out pictures from the computer and order them from online photo sites, however, this is the most bisarre thing I have heard. I have always been able to print out pictures from stores like target and walmart and prefer to print out pictures that way. If I had known of this "feature" in the beginning I would have sent the camera back right away. After using the camera more after this incident I became more frustrated with my perchase. The zoom, which is why I bought the camera in the first place, is very blurry. Also, when the batteries die in this camera, there is no "low battery" warning. The camera shuts off. With no warning. When I went onto qvcs website to put on a review, the page for this camera had been taken down. Obviously other customers were not happy with their purchase and the camera was taken off the website. I gues its true that you get what you pay for. I will not be purchasing another olympus camera!

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Nikon Coolpix S50c 7.2 MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Vibration Reduction Zoom and Wifi Capable Review

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(More customer reviews)(I gave it 4 stars because it was so hard to setup, otherwise it would have gotten 5)
I called tech support and read through every page of the manual and still couldn't figure it out - and I'm a tech guru! No one at Nikon tech support was very helpful (probably because it's still kind of new), they just kept emailing me the manuals.
Anyway, here's the mystery setup instructions:
(before anything - you need to setup a wifi connection - the nikon instructions are fine for this part. either use a publicly available hotspot or your home wireless router, plug in the password if there is one)
1. In the camera, setup your alias and email address. It's hard to figure out which character is the period (it looks like a comma rather than a dot midway up).
2. Take a photo and send it to anyone - preferably yourself.
3. Not only should you receive a copy of the photo to your email account, but Nikon Connect2 service will send you a series of email messages with the instructions to register for the connect 2 service. Without registering, all the other wifi features won't work
NOTE - if you don't get the series of email instructions but you do get the photo, then you entered the sender's address incorrectly but entered the recipient address correctly.
If you don't get any emails - then both addresses are incorrect.
4. Follow the instruction to setup the connect2 service. Without doing this, you can't link to your flickr account and you can't get access to the other connect2 features.
5. Once you've setup the connect2 account, login and you'll see the photo you just sent. Select it and click the flickr button. A pop-up window will appear and ask you for permission to link to your flickr account.
If you don't have a flickr account - I think you will be prompted to create one. After you've created the flickr account, login to the flickr account in a separate explorer window or firefox tab. Then go back to the connect2 website (in the previous window/tab) and click the flickr button again.
A popup window will ask you for permission to link your connect2 account to flickr. After you authorize it, your camera is now registered with your flickr account.
6. Now, from the camera, take a photo. Upload the photo to the email address "flickr" and it will automatically go to the connect2 website and be transfered to flickr.
Not so hard, right? Yeah right.
Actually, my hang up was that I didn't realize that i had typed in my senders email incorrectly so I never got the further instruction for registering the connect2 website. Nothing in the manual or supplemental manuals (there are 3 total) explained that the last bit of instructions would come via email. Not even the Nikon technical support website or FAQ's explained that there was a huge chunk of instructions missing - pending the receipt of the email notifications...
Anyway, I hope I saved someone some grief. Enjoy your new camera!

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