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Summary: Amazing digital camera, I fell in love
Review: In the before time, long long ago, I had a Panasonic Coolpix. This horrible [camera] took 640x480 pictures, had no flash, 2 shutter speeds, a light filter, and came with a 2MB compact flash card...after this nightmare, I purchased a then just-released Olympus C2000 zoom -- first generation, no USB, and an 8mb smart media card. After 2 long years of service, thousands of really really cool pictures, and much abuse, I sold the camera to a friend and decided to upgrade. The experience with Olympus was quite pleasant; I knew I wanted
one again. After looking at the 3040, I decided to go all-out and get the latest/greatest, and so I have the C4040. 4.1 megapixels of glory. Quicktime video with sound. More pro-photography toys than you can shake a Pentax 35mm at. I LOVE THIS THING. You can take pictures in black & white, sepia, black/white board, you can take panoramas, you can manually adjust the flash to your liking, and you can control the exposure, aperature priority, shutter priority, and even a virtual film speed control (100-400). You can even edit the movies you make on it. (15fps, they look pretty slick) I can't describe in words how the pictures look out of my HP1315 PhotoSmart printer (another of my reviews here) -- it has to be seen to be believed. What you should get:
- a set of NiMH AA's
- couple 64 mb cards and a 128mb card (you will play with the movie feature...trust me)
- tripod so you can play with extended exposureOther cool features:
- read/write light for the smart media
- keeps everything off for USB download mode
- finally has a lens cap strap (lost my old camera's cap about 1 week after I got it)
- uses AA's or the new photo batteries
- much lighter than older models Anyway, go BUY THIS CAMERA!!!
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Summary: Best digital camera on the market.
Review: This makes the third camera in the Camedia series that I've purchased. (I had the 2000Z and the 3030Z too.) I've found that I can sell my older models (about 16 months) after I purchased them, to family and friends for just over 50% of the original purchase price... making the net cost of the new upgrade about .... Although the older models took good pictures, each upgrade was easier to use and took sharper pictures. (I have about 6 gig of pictures over the last 3 years.) The model 4040 is again, a giant leap forward in ease of use and picture clarity. For example: at normal portrait distances 5 to 7 feet, without any zoom... after you download the pic into the computer, you can zoom in and literally count the number of eyelashes on the person. This is a result of the high number megapixels AND the Olympus quality lens that has been specifically designed for their digital CCDs. When choosing a digital camera there is a trade-off. On one side you can get cameras with as much as a 20x optical zoom (but it adds considerable size and weight). On the other side of the trade-off is that you can get something small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, like the 4040 (but only have a 3x optical zoom). I think the best compromise is to get a small digital camera with the most megapixels, then take the pictures with the 3x optical zoom, download the image to the computer and zoom/crop the picture (on the computer) without concern of loosing detail (because of the high megapixels). The Olympus 4040 fits this alternative. Although I think it is one of the best digital cameras on the market, there is always room for improvement. To make this camera better I'd: 1. Include removable NiMH batteries with an in-camera charger adapter. (My purchased add on NiMH batteries that last for around 70 pics per charge.) 2. Although the CCD is rated at 4.1 megapixels, the camera records about 3.8 megapixels.... Why? Where did the other 0.3 megapixles go? 3. Included is a 16meg smartmedia card. This is only enough for about 20 pics. A 128meg card runs about ... and can store more than 160 pics per card. Add a few bucks to the camera and give us a usable card. 4. Since the user manual is about ½ inch thick, you think you have plenty of detailed instructions. Then you realize only 1/8 inch of the manual is in English (the rest is in five or six other languages). And, what is in the manual, does not give sufficient detail about many of the various options. (You have to read/study the instructions on the included CD to get an idea of what many of these functions mean/do.)
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Summary: No date and time for printing
Review: The camera is good. Its jpeg file has all information you took shot (every bit!!!). But you are unable to print any of them, including date and time, when you send for printing. You have to manually edit jpeg file to add basic things such as date and time. A very pitty fact for such good camera.
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Summary: C4040 very impressive
Review: I bought the C4040 a few months back and love the camera. The bright lens allows great low light shots. With the noise reduction, the low light photos are great. The menu is somewhat complex or layered and there are not too many short cuts like some of the Canons have. The images are very easy to down load, infact it's acts as a removable drive, so you can just drag images. The C5050 corrected this, but the price is much higher. The Negative is also the printed manual is basically useless. You have to put in the CD for the full manual. The camera is not a compact, so I ended to getting a S200 Elph for places where I wanted a super-compact. The lens cap design is very poor. Infact I added a tiffen filter tube to protect the lens when it powers on.
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Summary: Olympus C-4040 Zoom
Review: Olympus has a winner on their hands (or in my hands). This camera takes crystal clear pictures in auto mode. Perfect for the intermediate digital photographer. Everything can be adjusted (with menus) and shots can be taken as close as 3 inches. For me, this was a great second camera on my journey to Digital SLR Heaven.
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Summary: Great photos
Review: I bought this camera about a year ago, after reading the good reviews here at Amazon.com. I was nervous buying it sight-unseen, but I have not been disappointed. This camera is awesome. I have used a Minolta SLR (with a heavy bag full of lenses and accessories) for 20 years, but I was taking better, sharper photos with this camera within weeks. The other reviews tell you much about this camera, so I won't repeat all that. I mainly want to add my additional "thumbs up" to the list of reviews. This camera has a lot of features that deserve to be learned. So plan to spend some time with it to get the most out of it. A lot of the detailed documentation only comes on the CD ROM included with the camera, by the way. The camera takes superb photos in automatic mode, but knowing all of its features makes it even more capable, and more fun to use. This is not the camera for someone who only wants to point and click. But if you're considering spending this much, you probably already know that. I have never taken so many beautiful photos before this camera. I print the best on 8 x 10 glossy paper and they are extremely sharp and colorful.
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Summary: Nifty camera all around
Review: This is my first digicam after using Nikon 35mm of various vintages over time. At current prices ($550 or so) the 4040 is
a great value among 4MP cameras for all the reasons cited in the accompanying reviews. The negatives are covered as well but I wouldn't be deterred unless I did a lot of indoor flash photography and didn't want to spring for accessory flashes (I don't know how other comparable cameras perform in these conditions.) Good digital cameras, this one included, are great fun to use
and 35mm users should definitely try them. It's satisfying (and
economical) to get rid of your failed efforts without having to pay to print them (that always galled me.)The 4040 makes crisp photos and even if you use a Leica rangefinder for your final shots, using a good camera like this one for experimentation and set up will save you a lot of lab fees. For those who like 11 X 14 prints and larger and don't want to shoot every picture in uncompressed tiff mode for storage reasons, consider the Canon G2 in the same price range as the 4040. It offers RAW mode which takes up much less space than tiff while maintaining high resolution. The G2 also has a tiltable LCD for when you don't want to contort yourself to see the LCD at an awkward angle. Other than that, the 4040 is among
best in class. Its 1.8 lens is still brightest of the 4MP group with the G2 close behind at 2.0. wasted film
for your The two
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Summary: Great Camera
Review: Great pictures and extremely fast lens compared to my other digital cameras. Highly recommended.
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Summary: the best digital camera I have ever used
Review: This camera downloads in a few seconds.
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Summary: GIVE IT A PASS
Review: Our previous camara was a HP it was easy to use the soft ware was a dream and life was sweet. When we decided to move up to a camara with 4mgpxl we looked around and decided on the Olympus c4040. This was a major mistake. The camara is not bad but the soft ware is a nightmare and the interface with the computer is not user friendly. we are selling this thing and buying another HP
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