Olympus Stylus Tough 7030 / µ (mju) 7030 14.0 MP Digital Camera - Blue

I like the camera and it's editing features. Nice size and really lightweight. But there is no SD card slot. So you have to rely on the internal memory and uploading your photos often. The most aggravating part of this camera is there is quite a long delay in the shutter activation which causes me to lose a lot of spontaneous shots. I prefer a camera with an immediate shutter response so that I can capture the immediate reaction of people... or an animal being playful... or the candid laughter of friends. That is the main reason I bought this camera is for those candid moments when I don't want to carry my larger, heavier Nikon D40X with me. People sometimes shy away from the more professional looking Nikon camera or they tend to "pose"..I was hoping this Olympus would help me around that. But the shutter delay is so noticeable and the pictures have proven that I m iss the majority of those shots.

This is a great little camera. I was looking for something low on price but with quality photo imaging for my daughter, this camera fit that bill. The 7030 takes great pictures and she is having ball "learning" to use it. The camera didn't come with any of the original accessories (which I knew in advance from the listing), but it takes the same battery/charger as the Olympus Stylus-7040 which we already owned. Over all we're all happy with the purchase.

Great and fast camera. Olympus are my favorite type of cameras.
I owned Olympus Cameras for a while and they are great priced items. Slim and will fit anywhere. Great for taking pictures of the beach, birds, family pics, or just any picture you want to keep as a memory. I personally bought the 8gb memory card so that gives me plenty of room to take many pictures. The re-chargable battery makes it easy to keep using camera as back in the days you had to buy batteries and keep replacing them. Now i am very glad not to keep replacing my batteries simply just recharge it and its good to go. Theres no research you have to do for this camera its a great buy.

the 7030 is really loaded for it's size. I repair these and have purchased more than 1 in recent months. I like the fact that Olympus finally went to SD cards and got away from the XD card with an adapter. I also noticed as I had one of these apart that the internal memory is a micro SD card in a slot. My project camera now has 8GB internal memory, and 16 GB SD card in the slot...I'll need to change a bunch of batteries before I need to download this camera...should prove useful on vacations...(I use this as a back up camera...something that fit's in the pocket easily.) I do advise anyone who gets one of these to get a screen protector because the screen is easily broken, otherwise it has been a great camera to use and takes great pictures!

This camera is good quality without a HUGE pricetag. Panorama sweeps are absolutely epic and stitched very well. The interface is very user friendly while allowing you as much control as you want without having an actual DSLR. I don't work with the cool stuff (beauty, magic, fireworks etc) because I don't think they're that great. But aside from that, this is pretty much amazing. Really small, a lot smaller than my last camera that had 4 AA batteries, and that was hard to get used to. Definitely "slim." I think the most useful setting is the "macro" as I can shove the lens right up to the object and he's totally fine with it. His battery also lasts me weeks. I've only charged him the original charge and once again more recently and I got him in the middle of February. He's not on all the time, but I have the constant "turn off" "turn on" mode going on. So that has to count for something.
If I were to have a problem with this. It would be that the timer automatically sets back to automatic. So if you're trying to do a series of pictures that you need a 2/12 second time for, you're doing a lot of button pushing. Also, if you use the flash when the camera light is set to "incandescent," everything is blue. Doesn't matter if it was red before, it is now blue. However, I don't really use the flash that often, so that's not really a concern for me, but if you are the type of person who does use flash, just be wary of how the light settings affect the flash.