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Summary: Terrific little camera
Review: The picture quality of this camera is something to behold. I read of people saying the camera gives noisy pictures and all but they're probably using their camera with the settings at default. Set the sharpness to -2 and the aliasing and sharpening artifacts just disappear! You end up with rich and highly detailed pictures worthy of the 5MP tag. The colour that this camera gives is simply beautiful. I have found the FL-20 flash to be a very good match as well. This small unit balances nicely with this camera and lends a lot more oomph to strobe lighting needs. Yes, it's not a perfect camera: no low light focus beam (though the camera still focuses quite well in lowish light situations - you can also just switch to manual focus if you need and just guesstimate distance to subject); no histogram (I don't use it much anyway) and no sound with movies. But the goodies especially the picture quality outweighs the bads: Li-ion battery (very good battery life), good usable ISO range from 50, 80 ,160 (320 is as expectedly noisy), lightweight and small size, good manual exposure range (A/S), etc. If you're after very high picture quality, pictures that have great detail (without that almost over smooth "Canon look") and colour, this is a terrific option for the money.
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Summary: Great camera at a great price
Review: This is a great camera that is easy to use yet has advanced features if you want them. The controls are very intuitive, and the display screen is excellent. I can't quite understand the negative reviews because I haven't had any problems. The pictures are crystal clear with great color, even when displayed on a 32-inch TV. Great buy for a 5 MP camera ranked by PCWorld in the top 10 of advanced digital cameras.
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Summary: Great Camera
Review: This is a great camera with a lot of features at a very reasonable price. The camera is very easy to use, has great battery life (I took 75 pictures over a week w/ flash on one charge), and produces excellent pictures. I don't know what the other reviewer is talking about with the colors. Maybe they should learn how to operate the camera or get their vision checked? The color looks perfect...better than a high quality film camera. The software that comes with the camera is adequate. My only concern before buying the c-5000 was with the xD memory format, which I had never used before. It has worked better than I had hoped. The camera writes to the card very quickly and the camera is able to hold over 200 images at the highest resolution on the extra 256mb card I purchased. Overall a great buy.
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Summary: after 1000 shots so far
Review: this is my second digital camera. my first is a refurbished 3 megapixel from Canon that was great at taking the instant snapshot. i had no exposure problems for that one for some reason. this Olympus on the other hand is great after some practice.
In my case, I got this to shoot my school portfolio shots. i'm a graphic design student with okay photography skills but not a pro. So I required a bit of patience for composition and lighting. Its good enough to print big tabloid sizes on an epson at 200dpi (heavyweight matte) at the maximum tiff file size. The colors are great especially after you fight to get the right exposure at non-optimal conditions. But it took me like 1000 shots to get over the muddy exposures. (crash course in photography - lighting is king)
On a sunny day its great. I like the manual controls though you can't save the settings completely and have to reprogram the thing. With the timer and tripod, the slow shutter speeds help for dark to night shots. I tried the nighttime mode and it was remarkable compared to say playing around with a manual film camera for the first time. the flash is adjustable and having a hot shoe helps for the glamour shots.
Scrolling through all the menus and submenus are okay. I use a Canon G5 at work and its numerous buttons at first is intimidating but seems quicker access than this Olympus. Yet the scrolling on the C5000 is okay to use unless you are freaking out and rushing. Its better than the Canon in that it seems more logical as I didn't really study the manual in detail.
Back to the controls, it has some good adjustable controls to hot rod your shots. I just wish it could stop down (or is it up?) to smaller aperature than F/8. The zoom is average range. But for some reason the super macro has great shots - probably because all the light is up close - compared to regular shots.
Sometimes when you shoot dark shots there is some noise and speckles in the image dark areas even when you use noise reduction. And there is a somewhat vignette phenomena as well.
Other good things about the camera: the various white balance controls helps alot; the camera starts fast. the controls are fast.
Not so good things: transferring files is not so fast as the Canon G5 and its software. the included 16mb Xd card is a joke. waiting for the camera to reload after the 15 mb tiff file is saved is tedious. you have to have a spare proprietary Olympus battery if you get carried away and run out of juice. no included hand strap.
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Summary: highly recommended!
Review: this is the BEST 5MP dig. cam.! it has more shooting functions you'll ever need, great picture quality, and it's extremely light!
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Summary: Total waste of money...
Review: To my frustration the camera isn't worth the money. The colors are just totally wrong and the image tracking is as slow as in old analog camcorders...In fact, I was quite frustrated comparing the results with my friend's 3 years old
camera which is only 2 Mpix. And worse yet, the thing died after I uploaded the images
to the computer. How can they get away with such a crap...?? Won't buy anything from Olympus ever..!!
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Summary: Low quality...Don't buy!
Review: Very poor quality slow tracking of the image even in day light conditions! The colors are extremely dissapointing.. (...) I'll never buy anything from Olympus anymore.. I wonder how these guys get away with this crap?
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