Is olympus a good brand in digital cameras, What about FE-180?

I want to buy digital camera with good picture quality & going to buy Olympus FE-180, Pls advise me.

I love Olympus brand cameras. I don't know about that specific model, but I have the Olympus Stylus 720SW, and I love it! It's so small and pretty. I can easily fit it in my back pocket, but the screen is huge. It's easy to use and the pictures come out incredible. The best thing about the Olympus that I have is that it's shock proof and waterproof.

good picture quality depends on pixels think of it as one to ten one will be the worst picture quality and 10 is the best...you want to get as close to 10 mega pixels without breaking your budget. I would recommend a canon rebel.

Personally, I don't have a very good opinion about Olympus. Try Nikon (very good image quality with Nikkor lens), Sony Cybershot (if you want to record decent movies also on simple digicam). I prefer Sony because of good features (and now they come with good quality Carl Zeiss lens).

Casio cameras look good (and are expensive) but have poor image quality. Opt for Kodak or Olympus if you want to save money and are not very particular about picture quality.

Olympus is a good brand of digital cameras. In fact, a few years back it was the market leader in the compact digicam race. The leadership however was taken over eventually by Sony, Canon and Nikon.
Regarding the FE-180, you can chk out the www.steves-digicams.com site and you will find reviews of most of the good cameras produced till date. You can read the reviews and conclude if that particular camera suits you or not.

Olympus is known for producing high quality lenses for manual and digital cameras over the past few decades. I am currently shooting with an Olympus E-500 DSLR and quite frankly I am pretty impressed with olympus. but in the point and shoot arena, i have also used the fe-200 (FE-180's big bro) and very satisfied, although for over $200 pricetag i would suggest looking for a canon powershot A530 which is about $150 on your local electronics retail store. the canon has a lens that can capture more light or lets say "brighter" than the fe-180, and this is very good for capturing picture during night or indoors. the flash range is also pretty far, in about 15 feet you will be able to see your subjects lit up clearly. it is a 5 megapixel camera but this amount is already very high quality. as opposed to stephanie's comment, having a high megapixel camera is good BUT that is only if you are planning to print out your picture bigger than 16"x20". thats is big, considering the price of printing also. for regular printouts of up to 11x14, 5MP is perfect. better yet, a 3 megapixel camera can do the same thing. higher megapixel value is good when you do alot of cropping of your pictures because you can retain the detail even if it gets small, but again 5MP is more that adequate for such jobs. also, having higher megapixels on small size camera sensors (the "film" of digicams) introduces excessive noise or graining of pictures. that means that when you take a picture with a 10MP camera, unless the noise reduction technology of the camera is topnotch, you would be seeing lots of dots all over your pictures, just like how you see on tv's with bad reception. and dont forget, higher MP = higher budget. you might find the link interesting. happy shooting!!

This camera does not hav an optical viewfinder. I would choose almost any camera with an optical viewfinder over one that only has an LCD viewfinder. Why?

1. You never have the option of turning off the LCD and these things eat batteries for lunch and spit them out. Why do away with the option of a viewfinder that has zero electrical drain?

2. It can be difficult to see the image on an LCD in bright sunlight, even if they are "new and improved."

3. You have to hold an LCD viewer out at some distance in front of your face. This is more conspicuous than I prefer to be all the time.

4. The need to hold a camera at arms length will introduce some shake. I like the idea of stabilizing a camera against my face when I am taking a picture. This is especially important with a longer zoom lens. No wonder "image stablization" or "vibration reduction" is necessary with these cameras. Not that there's anything WRONG with IS or VR, but it is really a requirement with LCD viewfinders and telephoto lenses.

5. Using the LCD to view photos after you've taken them slows down the camera quite a bit. You can't shut of the LCD monitor and still take pictures if you don't have an optical viewfinder.