Comments on: OLYMPUS STYLUS 840 8.0MP DIGITAL CAMERA WITH 5X OPTICAL DUAL IMAGE STABILIZED ZOOM

By: I. Farago

I. Farago — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:33:52 +0000

I bought this one for my wife. 5 stars I give here is a measure of her happiness

What I noticed and don’t like is when you set video recording to highest setting (VGA @ 30 fps) it can record only 10 secs.

Other than that, my wife is happy. Have a good day
Rating: 5 / 5

By: Charles Mayberry

Charles Mayberry — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:36:11 +0000

It is a good product and a good transaction, but I really haven’t had the time to give it a good test.
Rating: 5 / 5

By: Nadine Latief

Nadine Latief — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:18:58 +0000

I've been looking at the audio on several of the olympus cameras.. including the Stylus 840, 1020, and the waterproof stylus 850 SW (which I own).

All the three models I tested above have weird thumping noises randomly popping up on the audio of the video. I can understand that a waterproof camera has a muffled audio, but don't get the thumping. Sounds like maybe something inside the camera is moving? I called Olympus tech support but he said he hasn't heard of that issue before on the 850 SW. So maybe all 3 models I tested just happened to have the noise??

The Olympus FE 340 that I tested didn't have the thumping audio noises.. so I'll probably get that.. in addition to the 850 SW so I have one indoor and one outdoor camera. But would have preferred to have one camera that does everything: waterproof, and good video/audio quality. Rating: 3 / 5

By: ATL Reviewer

ATL Reviewer — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:12:04 +0000

I was highly disappointed in the photo quality of my new Olympus Stylus 840. It takes the worst, grainiest pictures I’ve ever seen! I have no idea what camera the people below are reviewing.
Rating: 1 / 5

By: Gennadiy Futorskiy

Gennadiy Futorskiy — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:24:30 +0000

This camera is lacking 2 very important (to my opinion) features.

1. After taking a picture, you can resize/adjust it, but can NOT save it on your camera. The only way to do it is PC.

2. You can not set up a camera to have the date the picture was taken in the corner of the image.
Rating: 2 / 5