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Summary: Great Photos!!
Review: I was not too thrilled about getting a digital camera, but I received this one as a gift from husband. And I'm really glad he did choose this one! Along with the Olympus P-400 dye-sub printer, the photos are in my opinion PROFESSIONAL QUALITY! I enjoy photography as a hobby, and this camera has taught me a thing or too about photography. I highly recommend it!
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Summary: Continuing the Olympus quality tradition
Review: I was very leary of the digital world, having seen very mediocre pictures from friends' digital cameras in the 1.0 megpixel range. I was very concerned when my wife presented me with an Olympus D-490 2.1 megapixel camera as a gift. The first few shots of our dog (zoomed in to show the whiskers with a wonderful sharpness) changed my mind. While the difference between film and this camera's pictures was apparent, the benefits of digital made this our camera of choice 90%of the time. A fall put the camera out of service, and I "upgraded" to a Nikon 885, thinking that our other Nikon film cameras were top notch, and Nikon wouldn't let a poor performer out the door. The disappointment despite my trials at fixing the poor contrast, smudged appearing results was a constant reminder of this poor choice. When Olympus announced the C-5050, I decided to try it again, specifically because of the experience with the D-490, and the fact that I had a collection of Compact Flash cards that would now fit into this Olympus product. The thrill is back! The first few pictures brought back the same excitement of seeing a wonderfully crisp, well exposed photo. There is a significant improvement in the ability to "zoom in" on portions of the image and still get very acceptable 5x7 prints. The lcd screen's sharpness and detail are improved. This is what the Nikon should have been. Sure, the menus take a bit of getting used to. And the on-off switch invariably gets turned to the on position when I put the camera back into my coat, and the position of the tab on the switch makes it less intuitive to switch it off without looking. The pivoting lcd only pivots 20 degrees down, making it hard to frame a shot while holding the camera above your head and the rest of the crowd. But despite a few rough edges, this camera's performance and features now place it as one of the best I've had the pleasure to handle. I've yet to test the night shots and extended exposure times, and the flash needs augmentation for larger group shots, but after all, there is a hot shoe on top. The feel of the camera is solid and professional, and while a tad hefty, its compact size adds to the feel of quality. I hope the depenability of my original Olympus flows through to this camera.
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Summary: Best Camedia Yet....
Review: I've had models 2000, 3000, 4040 and now the 5050. (I keep the model for about 1.5 years and sell the old one for about 50% of the new model price.) Of all the upgrades, this was the least expensive.... Yet it has the most additional features/options. (Most of these are covered well in the other reviews below.) Only two disappointments are that the max (native) MP rate is 2560x1920. Do the math... thats 4,915,200 not 5,000,000. Where did the others go??? (The model 4040 had the same issue, it wasn't really 4MP either.) And the recharger takes NINE HOURS to charge completely dead batteries. (Others on the market charge in two hours.) Other than these two things, the simply best camera on the market ! (I've done the research.)
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Summary: Auto-focus or Outta-focus.... you choose.
Review: I've had my sony DSC S85 for about 14 months now and the one thing that I just can't stand about this camera is the absolutely HORRIBLE auto focus. This is the second Sony digital still camera that I've owned and I've used a few more. The other (2.1MPixel) unit that I had before suffered from the same crappy focussing system. The earlier Sonys that I've used were much better. Some pictures come out beautifullly sharp, and others are not well-focussed. The thing that really bothers me is that I know that it's not me, since I'm a very experienced SLR photographer and have very good success with almost all the other camera gear that I've used. And that it's not predictable... there is no one thing that I can nail down to being the cause. I can use a tripod, or go hand-held and it doesn't make much difference. Good things about this camera are the user-interface. Sony really has a great system that is quick to use, simple to understand and effective. This camera is also loaded with an excellent battery system, lots of manual and automatic features. It's really just one step below a true SLR in many ways. That's it... I like everything about the camera but the focussing system.
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Summary: One Great Camera
Review: I've had this camera for about 2 months and I love it. If you have some basic experience it is easy to use (though it takes a little while to get used to the menu system). I upgraded from a 1.3MP Panasonic. So far I've mostly used the program mode. Excellent pictures in program mode 19 out of 20 times. Nice feel good design.
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Summary: Good quality, easy to use
Review: I've had this camera for about three months now. I don't mind that it's heavier than most. I love the feel of it -- no trouble holding it in one hand. Picture quality is very good.
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Summary: massive auto-focus problems
Review: I've owned several olympus digital cameras. The 2020, 3030, and D40 (and now the 5050). I returned the 5050 6 hours after purchasing. The camera takes wonderful pictures, has a feature set to die for, and all around is a fantastic product...except. about 40-70% of the time it takes pictures completely out of focus. If you're careful and setup the shot very carefully the pictures are fantastic. If there is a fore-ground and a background the camera tends to focus on the background blurring the foreground. After 4 years of digital photography this is the only camera that has ever behaved this way. Great camera and pictures for carefully composed pictures, as a point/shoot this camera fails most of the time. Not suitable for my wife to use for quick pictures of the kids...{sigh} I really liked the feature set.
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Summary: Great Pictures but problem with Battery Door and Lens
Review: It takes great pictures! I had to send back my unit twice because the tiny plastic clip in the battery door keeps breaking off for some reason. Also be extra careful handling the unit. The lens retraction mechanism is very delicate. Next time, I will go for a camera with a lens that stays inside the body. Also remember, the repair warranty only lasts 6 months.
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Summary: From 640 to 2560 px!
Review: My interest in digital photography began with my mother's Sony Mavica FD-75. I began taking photos of flowers in our backyard, but hated lugging around floppy disks wherever I went, and found the bulky body too cumbersome for my delicate subjects. Following my love of Sony products, I went for the Cyber-Shot P-30, a much more compact version of the previous camera. The MemoryStick media was much more convenient. But after less than a year, my photos were becoming more detailed and 1-2 megapixels just wasn't enough. I was also sick of tossing 9 out of 10 photos because they were out of focus. I needed something better, something that could focus within an inch and had all the bells and whistles so I could fine-tune before I even shot. Enter Olympus Camedia C-5050 Zoom. This camera is totally custimizable, with buttons for most everything and menu functions for the rest. It can focus on a subject while the lens rubs against it, with SuperMacro. And it can handle most of the standard memory media, including the new xD format. It can capture and associate sounds with your images, apply special effects to them, and then save them DPOF format directly to your digital printer. Even more exciting, this one doesn't use interpolation like almost every other digital, so you don't end up with grainy images. When they say 5 megapiexls, they mean it. My new best friend.
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Summary: if only someone wrote this before...
Review: My review is going to be very valuable for those who bought already and have problems with Olympus C-5050 digital camera. That's the reason I post this as a Negative review although I think this is a very good camera when you understand how to use it. Here it goes. Read my lips: do NOT use Auto ISO - you'll get a lot of noise in your pictures. Configure you own settings (using My Mode) and set your ISO to 64 at all times. Any ISO higher that 64 (even 100) will produce noticeable noise. Also, while configuring "My Mode", set Noise Reduction to "On" and, the most important, set Sharpness to "-4" or "-5". If you do all the above, Canon G3 owners will be jealous of your shots.
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