Product Description

Item #: Y68638.
Product Type: Digital camera - compact
Dimensions (WxDxH): 3.9 in x 1.1 in x 2.4 in
Weight: 4.5 oz
Color: Cosmic black
Supported Flash Memory: xD-Picture Card, microSD Card
Integrated Memory: 19 MB
Sensor Resolution: 12.0 Megapixel
Shooting Modes: Frame movie mode
Lens System: 5 x zoom lens - 6.3 mm - 31.5 mm - f/3.5-6.5
Focus Adjustment: Automatic
Min Focus Range: 23.6 in
Digital Zoom: 4 x
Image Stabilizer: Electronic
Camera Flash: Built-in flash
Red Eye Reduction: Yes
Microphone: Microphone - built-in - electret condenser - mono
Display: LCD display - TFT active matrix - 2.7" - color
Supported Battery: 2 x AA ( included )
Vista Certification: Certified for Windows Vista
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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4947 in Camera & Photo
• Color: Pearl Black
• Brand: Olympus
• Model: FE-46 Pearl Black
• Dimensions: 3.86" h x 1.09" w x 2.42" l, .39 pounds
• Display size: 2.7

Features

• 12-megapixel resolution for photo-quality prints up to 20 x 30 inches
• 5x optical zoom; 2.7-inch LCD
• AF Tracking technology; choose from three in-camera Magic Filters
• Edit images in-camera; Red-Eye Fix, Lighting Fix, Resizing and Cropping
• Capture images to xD-Picture Card or microSD (not included)

From the Manufacturer

Whether you’re enjoying a wedding or a fun weekend afternoon, the new Olympus FE-46 digital camera will consistently capture extraordinary, in-focus pictures of your family and friends. Inside its new premium crystal shell finish, the stylish FE-46 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-46 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;
• Wedding: This in-camera filter encloses the foreground of an image in gentle, pastel colors with a soft, elegant focus; similar to effects achieved in a studio.

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 the FE-26, 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
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-46 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.

What's in the Box
Two AA alkaline batteries, USB Cable, Audio/Video Cable, MASD-1 (microSD Adapter), Wrist Strap, Quick-Start Guide, CD-ROM Manual, OLYMPUS Master 2 Software and Warranty Card.

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Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews

55 of 60 people found the following review helpful.
Cheap usable digital camera
By Steve Ayres
In brief, if money is tight then this is an ok camera. If you want good quality images then you don't want the FE-46, save for something better.


My canon G9 camera recently suffered a lens error which is common to Canon designs, the lens popped out and stuck leaving the camera unusable.

I wanted an inexpensive replacement camera in case my Canon was not repaired in time for Christmas, and saw the Olympus FE-46.

It's a camera made to a price, and it's priced very keenly. You should accept that the price means a lot of sacrifices have been made. To begin you will find you need to buy a memory card as Olympus doesn't include one (although they do include a micro SD to XD converter in the box).

The LCD display is large and easy to see. There are a number of different modes, such as fully automatic; SCN - which offers portraits, night shot, fireworks, action etc.; iauto - which attempts to guess the type of scene; and the totally worthless 'digital image stabilization'.

Olympus apparently aren't alone in blatantly lying about image stabilization in their cameras. Image stabilization is a great feature that allows you to take sharp photos in lower than usual light. This camera doesn't have it. The Olympus 'digital image stabilization' simply increases the sensitivity of the sensor, allowing a faster shutter speed to reduce blur. Increasing the sensitivity of the sensor gives noisy, unusable images.

On the subject of image quality the Olympus is poor. My images (taken at 12MP / fine quality) aren't sharp and lack detail; the colors are washed out and there is color fringing around objects.

Admittedly my Canon G9 was a much more expensive camera, but these days almost everyone has a phone with a camera built in, and Olympus has to compete with these devices at this price. Apart from the pixel count the FE-46 has nothing special to offer, the picture quality isn't good enough to make carrying a seperate camera worthwhile.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
It's not that bad
By Snowy Marigold
I don't find this camera to be as bad as the other reviewers have said. It's a cheap-ish point and shoot. Given that, it takes decent pictures. They're best in natural light (as all are), but it takes good shots in well lighted interiors as well. It has a ton of scenes to choose from. The zoom is better than most. It's small. It's easy to use, I understand the manual and I like the software that comes with it.

Its biggest downfall is low-light photos. Picture quality declines substantially. If I know I'll be taking low-light photos, I grab my big ol' Canon (that I can't just throw in my purse.)

All in all, the Olympus is a good little camera.

20 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
What a bunch of cry-babies
By Darren W. Olsen
This camera is inexpensive, but it takes photos fine. Don't expect Canon body-only quality unless you want to spend at least 500 dollars. Even Sony can't match that.

For the money, this as good as a "Sony". It will take pictures just like you would expect from a film camera of same quality. If you want professional, then put your money where your mouth is, and shell out some serious money.

The FE46 is easy to use, it is durable, and takes nice pictures for a digital camera.

As far as the rest of the cry-baby tech-geeks are concerned: go suck on your bottles.

I sure can't complain about my purchase. Sure I would just love a professional camera, but I can't afford one.

I am happy.

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