The image quality/size options are listed within the shooting mode menus. Because there is only one basic interface for the shooting menu, it can be easily located and opened for quick and painless adjustment.  The image size and quality settings are a bit limited with only four total settings available when shooting still images.  These options are all for JPEG compression and include an SHQ setting of 2816 x 2112 (less compression), HQ 2816 x 2112 (standard compression), SQ1 2048 x 1536 (standard compression) and SQ2 640 x 480 (standard compression).  Although limited, the settings offered allow users to shoot images for a number of different printing and sharing formats from high resolution prints to email and internet profiles.  Because of how easy it is to access this essential feature it seems likely that even hesitant novice users will find themselves able to make adjustments to reflect both the shooting situation as well as the final post-capture sharing method.

 

Picture effects are noticeably lacking from the Olympus FE-200.  This is a surprising omission considering that most manufacturers at a minimum will include black & white and sepia color effects to even their cheapest cameras.  Many companies like HP and Canon have used this area and the preset shooting modes as locations to stuff their cameras full of settings and customization that gives basic point-and-shoot photography an air of uniqueness. 

 

While this won’t be a huge issue for many novice consumers just looking for color digital images, it would have been nice for Olympus to have at least included the basic sepia and black & white settings.  As it is, photographers using the FE-200 will need to upload their images onto PC and edit using either the Olympus Master Software or another editing program like Photoshop in order to get even the most mundane of effects.