love this camera, October 7, 2005
Reviewer: W. Goodman

i did lots of researching, internet and stores, on most of the novice friendly slrs's out there. i really wanted the canon rebel xt because it's the lightest one out there and pretty sharp looking. when i was unwilling to pay the price i took a serious look at the olympus e300. it's not as pretty as the rebel but there are still many reasons to love this camera! i actually like that it looks like the cameras of yester-year! kind of clunky but has all the great new digital features we're all yearning for now. i love that it can be completely manual, totally automatic and anywhere in between. i love the fact that you can buy just the body, the body with one lens or the body with 2 lenses. it's always been a pain even with the 35mm's that you have to get each component like the filters and flash but we should all be used to that by now! i've only owned the camera for a couple of weeks so i haven't yet explored all the possiblities but just tinkering with it i have taken some pretty good shots. it's a pretty cool camera.
ps - batteries, flashes, oem cases can all be checked out at e-bay. i got some pretty good deals on the accessories.
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If you care for quality and reliability - DO NOT buy E300 , September 27, 2005
Reviewer: Richard Collins "Rich"
Just purchased an Olympus E300 Evolt camra. I was a faithful customer of the Plympus for many yers. Own large professional digital camera produced by Olympus in cooperation with Optronix, owned E-10 and E-20, besides working professionally on Olympus microscopes. I was always very happy and satisfied with quality and reliability of Olympus products, that's why I am still in schock that E-300 Evolt was such a disappointment. In fact, it was more like a slap on the face when I opened a bag, pulled out a camera and read a reasonably large tag "Made in China". Sorry, Olympus, but you just lost a very faithful customer. I am not going to rely on Chinese-manufactured camera in the remote parts of the world and extreme conditions, where I took most of many thousands of my photos. Yes, it is a fast camera and the quality is adequate when you use ISO 100 to 400. When it comes up to 800 or 1600 it is virtually unusable. The noise pixels become annoyingly obvious and ruin the image. I hope, OLympus that you will come up with better product in Evolt E500, but, PLEASE, make and assemble it in Japan...... ________________________________________________________________

          
Olympus E300, September 23, 2005
Reviewer: Craig Johnson

Excellent camera. Easy to learn and operate. Excellent picture quality. Purchased the Olympus name because of previous experience with Olympus cameras (OM10 SLR)and was not disappointed

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best and easy, September 22, 2005
Reviewer: Abid Khorramian "abid"

It has been about 2 weeks that I have received my camera. I am a novice, this camera takes great pictures,very easy to use, it is built very tough and feels great holding it. I will highly recommend it.
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New on Digital SLR Cameras?, September 16, 2005
Reviewer: Paul P.R
I had a C-3000Z Oly, good pictures and durability, but slow and you can find only 128M Smart Media Card in the market, no more, then I decided to change: Canon?, Nikon?, Konica? mmmm Olympus!
This is my first Digital SLR Camera,so I`m studying this product and benefits, in the future, I`ll have a concrete opinion about this, but is there a small, thin and lite SLR Digital Camera like the SP-350 and SP-500 UZ Oly ??
If you want to know about E300 Oly "in lab and test" visit:
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 I like it more than my D70, September 13, 2005
Reviewer: Mark D. Slivkoff

I've shot extensively with my D70, which I love, but this new E300 just feels better, especially considering the fact that I have the extra battery grip which was/is sorely missed for the D70. I purchased the two lens kit, and for those of you debating between the two cameras (or the 3, if you're looking at the Canon as well) with a budget in mind you will love your purchase.

I have been shooting for 15 years now and have been through many cameras, film and digital, and I can honestly say that this Olympus is fantastic. Images are flawless.
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