2026-10-05 Olympus FE4030 Digital Camera

This Olympus FE4030 came to me in a batch of cameras from an old friend. He didn’t tell me the story of how he had amassed the batch, but he has been trying to clean up his basement work area and I expect—like me with my camera stuff—something had to be let go.

It turned out this camera has a problem that shows up on its screen. There is a perfect gray disc that is located on the bottom right of the screen. The disc is there in live view and playback, but the file doesn’t have it.

Further playing around came up with another problem. The sensor seems to have some dirt on it. I used arrows to point to the out-of-focus blobs that show up in every image. I can see why the camera was not being sold, but given to me!

Another big bonus is the camera came with two batteries and two chargers but only one AC cord for the chargers. One of the batteries also has a loose plastic end that has to be tucked into place and probably won’t last forever, but works well for now. As an additional bit of trivia, the Olympus LI-42BA battery is the same as the Fuji NP-45, and Fuji use the same battery in a number of their cameras.
A Quick Start Guide—in English, French and Spanish—completes the package.

Here are the Olympus FE4030 details—

Announced Jan 20, 2010
14 megapixel
26-104mm 4x wide f/2.6-5.9 zoom
4 sec to 2000 sec
flash good to 5.8 m
ISO 64-1600
2.7 inch screen
AF tracking
i-Auto mode
Four Magic creative filters
face detection
in-camera guide
18 Meg internal storage
weighs 146 g
93 x 56 x 22 mm (3.7 x 2.2 x .9 inches)
Body colours—Light Blue, Turquoise Blue, Pink Brown and Indium Gray (this camera, the colours varied by region and retailer)

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