Olympus SP-350 - UK Digital Camera Review

Olympus SP-350 Review

The Olympus SP-350 has 8 megapixels and 3x optical zoom and is a camera that will not let you down. It will allow your creativity to expand as you learn more about what this camera has to offer.

With a large 2.5" colour TFT LCD monitor giving a clear picture of what you are capturing, the Olympus SP-350 will give superb prints every time. Images are stored on the 32MB internal memory or xD-Picture Card (from 16 to 1GB).

Olympus SP-350 Front
Olympus SP-350 Back

Focusing comes as auto, manual or standard with AF Illuminator and a working range of up to 20cm wide (macro) and 2cm wide (super macro). Exposure has auto, programme, aperture and shutter priority and manual.

There are also 24 scene modes within the Olympus SP-350 range which include; portrait, landscape, night, sports, indoor, sunset, fireworks, cuisine, behind glass, beach, snow and three underwater modes. It is also possible to store four settings under My Mode.

The SP-350 has a built-in flash with five options; auto, red-eye reduction, fill-in, fill-in and red-eye reduction and off. The flash operates on a working range of up to 3.8m (wide) or 2.2m (tele). The SP-350 also has a hot-shoe which allows connection to an external flash when extra light is needed.

Sensitivity can be automatically adjusted or manually to ISO 50/100/200/400 on the Olympus SP-350 with white balance available as auto, WB adjustment pre-set and full manual. Pre-set modes include sunlight, evening sun, overcast, tungsten and fluorescent.

QuickTime Motion JPEG movies with sound can be recorded, QVGA at 30fps and 15fps, dependent on card capacity. Viewing of movies can be fast forward and reward/frame by frame and still images are viewed on slide-show/calendar/album or demo modes.

PictBridge and PictBridge Easyprint support allows direct printing with compatible printers.

The SP-350 is powered by a lithium battery LB-01(CR-V3) but can also run with 2x lithium or alkaline one-use batteries, or 2x AA Ni-MH or Ni-Cd rechargeable batteries.

Olympus SP-350 Specifications & Features

  • 8 Megapixels
  • 3 x Optical Zoom
  • 5 x Digital Zoom
  • 15 x Combined Zoom
  • 2cm Focusing Distance
  • Overcast, Sunlight, Evening Sun, Tungsten, Fluorescent1, Fluorescent2 and Fluorescent3 White Balance settings
  • 2.5" TFT, 115,000 pixels
  • Auto, Red-eye Reduction, Fill-in, Fill-in and Red-eye Reduction and Off flash modes
  • Maximum Image Size 3264 x 2488 Pixels
  • 640 x 480, 30fps Movies
  • PictBridge Compatible
  • xD-Picture Card with 32MB Internal memory
  • 2x Size-AA NiMH Batteries
  • Approximate Weight 195g

Olympus SP-350 User Reviews

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Reviewer: Kari -US - US
Being a proffestional photog, this camera never lets me down, with such a good variety of controls and settings, its great to do any type of shoot.

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Reviewer: Bill Townsend - UK
We were going on a trip through Europe and currently didn't own a decent camera so, having used Olympus in the past, made the SP-350 our choice. Whilst we were away we took many varied shots, different lighting, contrasting locations, and we have been extremely pleased with the results. The auto modes are excellent and it also gave us plenty of manual choices. Our battery experience was that CRV3 batteries gave the longest life, much better than rechargeables. Very pleased we chose this one

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Reviewer: Beckie - UK
I was looking in this price range for a new camera and, from what I could see, this one was offering the best range of features for the money.

It has not disappointed me yet as it offers a great range of manual controls which I like using. Auto is also very easy to use and gives excellent results, but I like to experiment.

I will take time to go through the manual properly as I feel there is a lot more that I can still achieve.

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Reviewer: Rod Wate - UK
Mum and Dad (who could be considered to be technical dinosaurs) bought this camera on recommendation and I have been amazed at the brilliant photos they have taken. They say that is is very easy to use in auto mode and that they are gradually learning to use the manual features, of which there are many apparently. It has opened up a new hobby for them

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Reviewer: Ray - UK
The Olympus SP-350 takes excellent photos, different lighting conditions are dealt with easily. The battery life is good and startup and recycle times are excellent. I have used a few other olympus digital cameras in my time and have never been dissapointed.

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