Others say...

"Olympus Stylus 830"
Easy to carry and use, but many features of larger Olympus cameras, such as available light and over a dozen other mode settings. It has the advantage for someone with another Olympus camera of using the same memory card. It fits in a pocket or purse, yet delivers excellent quality pictures. The telephoto includes optical zoom and the stabilization allows me to take pictures in a variety of conditions. The view screen is bright and clear. All in all, it is a good point and shoot camera; in fact, I bought a second as a graduation gift. Makes a good combination with a larger camera, especially another Olympus.

"Love This Camera!"
This camera has a lot of the same items as our old Olympus - but is even better. Bigger screen, the style is easy to carry, and it takes great pictures. My child just graduated preschool and the "videos" are great!

"Very Disappointing"
First, let me say that I am a completely casual camera user. By no means do I have high expectations. I bought this camera because I work with dogs and I like to take pictures of them for my website. Dogs, as you may know, are very difficult to photograph because they cannot stay still unless they are pretty much sleeping (kids, and other living things, can be the same) and most pictures come out blurry (unless you use the flash, which distorts colors and causes redeye).

With my former digital camera, a 2002 Fujifilm Finepix, all my photos were either (A) very blurry, unusable pictures of dogs doing interesting things (B) less blurry pictures of dogs sleeping-or close to sleeping (C) clear, but flash-distorted and red-eyed pictures of dogs in action.

This was getting very boring, so I began the search for a camera with anti-blur (sans flash) options. The Olympus 830 got great (too good to be true) reviews, had anti-camera shake options and boasted high ISO for capturing objects in motion. I spent weeks searching, and I couldn't find a camera with better reviews and such a seemingly high probablity of great, blur free photos.

Well, I ordered it, and here's what I found.

-If you set the ISO to 800 or higher, you will most likely get a blur-free photo, even if the subject is moving.

-HOWEVER any ISO setting above 100 will distort dark colors with horrendous noise (pinks and purples, oranges and blues... awful! I will post examples). I didn't know what noise WAS before I got this camera!

-If you set the ISO to anything less than 200 and you are photographing anything other than inanimate objects like statues and chairs, you WILL 90% of the time get a blurry photo, even with all the anti-shake, anti-blur settings turned on.

Basically, it's possible to get a blur free photo with this camera, but the tradeoff if you get a terribly colored photo with ill-defined lines and an overall image quality that's worse than the cheapest cameras on the market. Why didn't anybody mention this in the reviews? It's very noticeably bad. You don't need to be anything close to an expert to pick up on it.

I guess the camera takes good macro shots. If you're looking to take lots of pictures of flowers really close up, it might be a good camera. If you want to take a picture of anything that moves, look elsewhere.

"Want Something Easy - Here It Is...."
I bought this because I really needed a small camera to carry around. I have larger ones but they always seem to end up staying home because nobody (including me) wants to carry them around and I was really nervous that this was going to be another crappy camera, I already gave my nieces and nephews the old crappy ones to play with. But after I started to use this it was very easy to operate and to find your way around thru it's options - The camera is small and easy to carry around in your pocket or purse. The Zoom is good as well and when printing it is very clear I was really surprised at how clear. The only thing I have bad to say is the night shots no matter how you set them in the camera don't come out clear. and the camera resets itself when you turn it off, and that can be a pain sometimes. but all in all I am very pleased and glad that I took the chance and bought this camera, it is a very good non-professional camera

"Waste of Money- not worth the trouble"
I got an Olympus digital camera when i was 13 for my birthday. I was so excited, it was awesome! However, two days after purchase, we had to return the camera because the shutter wouldn't open. They sent us back another new one, and everything was fine.
A couple weeks after the new camera came, it once again started acting up. At first random pictures wouldn't transfer to my computer. Soon the camera, upon being turned on, would refuse to take picture, and just asked if i wanted to delete all of my pictures. When i pressed no, it would turn off.
Buying that camera was a waste of money. Another con is that the sound on the videos didn't work, i was only able to take silent movies. I have never gotten anything else from Olympus, and never plan to again. It was all one big nightmare.