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Summary: Very Happy with Purchase
Review: Finally after my 35mm camera was lost in a move I decided to take the plunge into digital. My wife was sold on the 10X zoom, and many reveiwers selected this as the top camera in that category. Since the purchase, it has consistently performed above all my expectations. I can print 8X10 pictures with great detail, or take multiple lower quality pictures to e-mail to family. We just had twins and use this camera every day to update the family. All of our friends and family have been impressed with the quality, ease of use, and versatility of the camera and we have convinced four others to make the same purchase. One reccomendation -- spend the money on the 128 megabyte card. I have never had to worry about a full memory card since we bought the big one.PROS: great picture quality, ease of use, amazing zoom.
CON: not the smallest camera on the market
Reccomended accessories: rechargable AA batteries, 128 megabyte smartmedia card
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Summary: A good digital camera
Review: I owned this camera for awhile its good actually very good......but the zoom wasnt what I wanted, so I upgraded to a nikon 5700.....Only because I'm use to a camera that behaves like a slr.........but if you do purchase this olmpyus and your a average photo type user or not into tecnical cameras that can be difficult, Then this is the camera for you........
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Summary: Affordable, High-Quality Digital Camera!
Review: I recently ordered this camera for my sister's birthday - we ordered it on the 22nd of December, it was shipped the 23rd and we received it the 24th! And we didn't even pay the extra shipping costs to get it ASAP! Our family has really enjoyed taking such excellent pictures with our first digital camera. It has amazing zoom, clarity and color and it's easy to use. We would highly recommend this digital camera! We bought ours from "ce-corp" and we were very happy with this seller.
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Summary: Very Disappointing
Review: I've had this camera for about a year and taken around 1000 pics. My experience has been that the camera is great taking pics outdoors on a nice sunny day, but under any other lighting conditions this camera is a bigtime ..... The autofocus indoors is completely unreliable and does not consistently produce properly focused pics regardless of whether you are using it in Auto mode or P mode. So the "point and shoot" aspect of this camera is like flipping a coin -- heads, your pic turns out fine; tails, sorry you missed the shot. OK, so why not try manual focus? Well, the viewfinder on this camera is an EVF which produces an image somewhat akin to putting your eye an inch or so from a TV set -- what you mostly see is lots of dots and it is basically IMPOSSIBLE to see a crisp image as you adjust the manual focus to try and sharpen the focus. Using the LCD instead of the EVF to focus the shot is also problematic -- it's just about impossible to see the LCD outdoors in bright sunlight, and even the image on the LCD is not good enough when trying to manually focus using high zoom. I'm amazed and quite skeptical about some of the glowing reviews others have written. They must be using a different camera, because I would not recommend the Olympus C700 Zoom to anyone.
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Summary: Taking pictures indoor with low light
Review: Some of the reviews prior this one told completely opposite stories abouts the ability of this camera to take photographs indoor and with low light. Probably, the truth is NOT that
the C-700UZ isn't able to work well in such conditions, but rather that ITS AUTOMATIC MODES are not suitable for indoor
operation with poor light. In such a case, all what one has to do is to switch from automatic to program or manual mode,
and set the sensitivity to a fixed value among 100, 200 and 400 ISO - but not to 800 ISO, and, most important, NOT to AUTOMATIC selection. DON'T LET the sensitivity value be automatically selected, by the camera itself, because it will be almost certainly set beyond
400 ISO, and you'll end up with ugly, grainy pictures, due to the color noise raised by the excess of sensitivity.
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Summary: Never gets the picture want.
Review: We have had the product for 12 months now. We have taken almost 3,000 pictures with the product, and deleted 2,000 of those pictures. This camera just NEVER gets the picture you want. When you press the button, it can take anywhere from 2 to 5 seconds for it to take a picture. The absolutely bare minimum time is 2, and is almost never met. The camera is designed to eat batteries for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. We had to buy a rechargeable alkaline system in order to avoid going to the poor-house. The smart engineers who designed this camera noticed that it eats batteries too quickly. Their solution was to turn off the camera if you let your finger slip from the "shoot" button for only a moment. If you are fortunate to be saving batteries in this way, it takes only TEN SECONDS for the camera to warm up and be ready to take an action-packed shot. This TEN SECOND delay is incurred when you press the "take picture button". The screen often goes blank right before you press this button. We have used this camera to miss literally thousands of wonderful shots of our twin boys. ... If you like to miss photographs, if you like to get pictures of people looking the other way, or with their eyes shut, or with their body turned entirely away from the camera, there is no better camera on the market for this purpose. We're buying another camera. This one is just too useless.
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Summary: Good features, not-so-good performance
Review: A ton of features, including a massive optical zoom, and full manual to full auto functionality. Here are the negatives to ponder when considering this camera: It is VERY slow. Plan to take pictures of stationary objects, or people posing. No matter the shutter speed, the time between your press of the shutter button and the actual image capture is an eternity. You will have to "lead" your subjects while holding the shutter button and waiting for the snap. The internal viewfinder is a small LCD, which is slow and jumpy. The benefit is that you are looking thru the lens. Otherwise it is terrible. Taking pictures in low light is a [gamble]. You cannot see a thing in either the internal or external LCD viewfinders. You will have to guess what is in the frame, and snap a flash picture to find out what you've got. The quality of indoor pictures in average lighting is questionable. This camera will not simply make black look black. Dark areas always have red "hot pixels", which makes the picture look very grainy, even with the flash. Bottom line, I do not recommend this camera for a film replacement. If you take landscape pictures in bright light, it's great. Otherwise, try something else.
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Summary: Marvelous digital camera
Review: We wanted a zoom lens with significant range so the 10x Camedia was an obvious candidate, and then purchase. We are very happy with the product. The 2MP CCD produces excellent shots with flawless color rendition and beautiful sharpness. Battery life is excellent. We use and carry Panasonic NiMH rechargeables. The most remarkable thing about the C-700 is its ability to shoot in true color indoors in dim light. We shot dozens of pictures in medieval churches in Italy a few weeks ago, all without flash of course, and they were perfectly exposed. Amazing! Think very, very seriously about buying this camera.
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Summary: Great Camera!
Review: I have enjoyed the heck out of this Camera! It has ever feature that I would have ever wanted. The pictures are just clear as can be. I love hooking it up to the front input of my TV and reviewing the pictures as soon as I take them. An now that I can send the pictures I want to Wal-Mart over the internet for $.49 a shot, the need to have a film camera is gone. One suggestion - make sure that you read/print out the manual that is on the CD (PDF file). It is very complete and helpful.
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Summary: Terrific Zoom, Terrific Camera
Review: I bought this camera for the 10x Optical zoom mainly...because finding a camera with that kind of power without sacrificing quality (as in the older Sony Mavicas) was hard to do. After playing with it for some time and taking snapshots, it's an absolutely terrific buy. I would recommend it over the C-720 as well. Optical zoom aside, and I won't even go into digital zoom because it just kills your quality, this piece takes great pictures. In the program mode, ASA speed can be adjusted to help in photos with speed or low-light situations. The flash is good for fill or brightness. It also has a spot for adding on your own flash if needed. I've had success with both. The original Olympus lithium batteries its packaged with last ages too. It operates on 4 AA batteries, so keeping spares is no trouble and easy to find if you're caught out without some. The LCD on the back of the camera is large enough to view your images with, and it's programmed with automatic portrait, landscape, and sports settings, as well as the programmable mode. The only thing negative I can say about this camera is the strap and lens cap. The string for the cap was not big enough to go around the barrel of the lens, and the strap only attaches to one side of the camera. When I put a camera around my neck, I like for it to hang horizontal, not vertical as this one does. With the 2.1 megapixel rate, I'm still able to take beautiful 8x10 shots. My first camera was a 4.1 megapixel camera and I realized very quickly I would seldom need that kind of resolution. I take a lot of sports photos of youth teams, as well as candids and some portraits of people for a newspaper. Some of it is web work, some is print. Not yet have I had a need for anything over 2.1 (or 8x10 print size). The C-700 is being discontinued because of the newer C-720. If you shop around, you can find this one on sale at your local computer or photo store. I did!
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