Olympus FE-340 - A Helpful Little Friend

The Olympus FE - 340 is not a top of the line model, but it is both affordable and an excellent beginner camera. Its built in Help Guide functions are perfect for the everyday user, just looking to take a few nice pictures of family, friends and scenery. This is not a camera designed for use by professionals or amateur photographers. Its functions are limited to automatic settings but it does have a few nice features including Face Detection, allowing the camera to focus on the faces of the people in a group photo or single person shots, Digital Image Stabilization to reduce shaking and inaccuracies, and Perfect Shot Preview.

Other features of this camera include 8 megapixel resolution, a 5x optical zoom, AVI movie with sound, many exposure modes, an ISO range of 64-3200, JPEG File formats, 2.7 inch LCD with Backlight Boost, 48MB Internal Memory, and Li-ion Rechargeable Battery. The FE-340 is priced anywhere from $175-$210 making it an extremely affordable camera for any type of non-professional picture-taking.