My wife bought this camera 3 years ago after reading a positive review. She likes the camera because it is small, simple to use, and has been dependable. She isn't a computer whiz but she has no problem using the program that comes with the camera. Her only complaint was battery life. She recently bought a Digital Concepts battery charger at walmart that comes with 4 - 2000mah Nimh AA batteries for $17.00. Now she can get over 70 pictures with no battery complaints. With good batteries and a good charger this camera is an amazing value at the price.

I bought the Olympus Camedia Brio D-100 in Oct 2002. Got it for about a hundred greens. Thought I had a landed an awesome deal, until the camera proved you get what you pay for.

CONS:
1. Battery eater: No rechargeable battery is good enough for it to last through 20pics. I couldn't leave batteries in it for a week - they would be run down in that time.
2. Major issues with focus: The whole user interface with communicating when its ready to shoot is incredibly unreliable. I would switch it on, and wait for the green and amber lights to stabilize. They would sometimes, and not others. Even worse, they would and wouldn't on the same shot, with the same composition. Very frustrating.
3. Unreliable save: I was never sure if it saved a pic. Sometimes I would press the button - but nothing. No indication on the camera what's wrong. Then I would have to close the cover, reopen it to switch it back on, and pray it will shoot this time - 50% chance. No indication of what's wrong. Using the LCD at the back is a pain too. Often it wouldn't have enough power left to let you browse through to see if it took pics alright.

I could go on and on, but the sum total: very frustrating, unreliable camera, best take your money elsewhere. I don't care about bells and whistles, but one expects if its called a camera, it will take pictures. If its called a camera 100% of the time, it will take pics a 100% of the time!!

As for mine,after missing some critical pics on a very important family occasion, and some more of household items while documenting before a relocation, I finally hit it against my tiled floor, broke it in a hundred pieces, drilled through it in various places, and am sending it to Olympus's HQ with a letter explaining what they should have done themselves that I had to PAY them to do!

I bought this camera on clearance and couldn't be happier! It works every time, takes great photos at a nice quality and is auto recognized by iphoto. Also, this camera is tough. My 4 year old takes hundreds of photos with it on our 256MB smart media card. In all a very good buy.

When I shopped for a camera, I had 3 things in mind:
a) Cost b) Ease of use c) Quality. My thoughts on how
Olympus D-100 rates:

Cost: If you are a beginner looking for a low cost digital camera, this is the one for you. If you are looking to broaden your horizons in photography, go for the olympus D100. I purchased this for $129(new). I even got an additional 16MB smart card -- free! I would say any price under $150 is a good price for this camera. I rate it 5 STARS for the price.

Ease of Use: Okay , it comes with a software and all..But on reading the software manual, i found that this camera is not supported by the software. Then upon playing with the USB stuff, i found that it is a auto-detected by the PC. Hence this obviates the need for software. I have Win2000 Professional edition on my PC. To make things easy for people reading the review, i want to state in simple terms how to transfer pictures:
1) Attach the USB to the USB card in your PC. The other end goes to your camera.
2) Now start your PC.
3) Windows will detect the USB and open up a drive for you. (In my case it was G: drive).
4) Now open "windows explorer".
5)Click on "my computer".
6) Click on G:
7) This will show a folder for your camera. Once you open the folder you see your pictures.
8) Transfer the pictures or upload them on the Web and enjoy!

This is a very simple process and I would rate it 4 STARS for ease of use.

Picture quality: True the quality is not as good as a 4.1MP but it is good enough. This drop in quality is only observed when you zoom in your pictures...But like i mentioned before, it is good enough for a 1.3MP camera. I would rate it 3 STARS for picture quality.

And finally my thoughts on power drain...I think this is to be expected from almost all cameras. This is not confined to this camera alone. Hopefully , there will be clk gating technology(or better clk gating if they already have it) in the days to come.

Hope this review was helpful to you..I hope you have made up your mind whether to go for this camera or not.

This is a decent camera with poor instructions / information / design with regard to the battery. Good alkaline batteries don't last a whole day in this camera. Lithium batteries work but need to be replaced more often than in most cameras. The best thing for this camera is to buy Ni-MH rechargeable batteries. Take the batteries out when not using the camera and recharge them often.