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Summary: The best digital camera Ever (until 4040 came out)!!!!!!!!
Review: This camera is wicked. Only way to get anything better is to go get a pro camera ! This is good for me - full manual, full auto or anywhere in between. In airplanes you need to cotrol the F-Stop manually. No prob - just go to a/s/m mode on the dial and press up/down to change f-stop and left/right to change target light level and shutter speed is adjusted autmoatically. And the lens does collect light like no other. 1/40-1/80 shutter at nighttime stadium at ISO100 and 1/200 shuutter at ISO400. Cool thing with the digital zoom. Bump down your resolution to 1024x768 and use up to 2x of digital zoom with no quality loss (a 2048x1536 picture is taken and them middle 1024x768 is kept). max Digital zoom is at advertised 2.5x at 2048x1536, 5x at 1024x768, and 7.5x at 640x480 (Multiply by the 3x Optical zoom! -- 22.5x total zooming power if you don't mind quality loss from full digizoom and shooting at 640x480 (I use 1024x768 at the games for 3xO/5xD/15Xtotal.).
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Summary: worth the money
Review: this camera takes excellent pictures, even under extreme lighting conditions, like complete darkness and with the bright sun in the background. i was impressed. note that when you look thru the viewfinder, your nose will touch the lcd and make the screen dirty. also in win2k, when i hook it up via usb cable i get bluescreen crashes! win2k USUALLY is stable compared to win9x/me. i hooked this thing up to my winME computer and it worked flawlessly. another point: the control to zoom in and out is right by the shutter release button and you have to use you right index finger to zoom. this is not good because you have to take your finger off the shutter release button, which is just wrong! they should have designed it so you could zoom with your thumb while your index finger stayed on the shutter button. make sure you get rechargable batteries and some smartmedia with this baby. i picked this camera up for under $....
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Summary: Don't bother looking around - this is the one to buy.
Review: If your going "Digital" and want a "GREAT" camera, the 3040 is it. Everything worked "RIGHT-OUT-OF-THE-BOX". The pictures this camera takes are "FABULOUS". With the auto settings on this camera you "CAN NOT" take a bad picture. All I can say is forget all the Product Descriptions and Technical Specifications - just buy this camera and have fun.
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Summary: Wow! the pictures. Ow! the price.
Review: The pictures from this camera are truly wonderful. The image quality and color realism really come very close to what you'd expect from a reasonably good 35mm. The only catch (as with all similar cameras) is to remember that if you take pictures at high-res, they are HUGE. I've seen single images that were 8mb - so a 128mb aftermarket card might hold only 15 or so pictures. As with other high-pixel cameras, even lower-res pictures with this one are going to look better than they would from an entry level camera, mostly because of the better CCD and unusually good lens. I don't have the bucks to purchase this one myself, but my company has one, and I love to use it. My gripes: No rechargable battery.
Lens doesn't "go flat" like it does on some cameras (but would be impossible with any high-quality lens).
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Summary: Excellent camera. Great price.
Review: The pictures taken on SHQ mode were exceptional for $... less than the other black camera on the market. I would suggest getting the 128MEG Smart memory card, rechargable batteries,camera bag and the AC adapter as taking pictures at this resolution you get only about 60 shots of high quality pictures. I printed a sample shot of my daughter on my Epson 740 printer, using plain photocopy ( Xerox ) paper at 720dpi and was amazed with the clarity and color of the picture. One big problem was getting my computer to recognize the USB port and the camera, a tougher task than I had anticipated, thinking that all the necessary info was on the installation software. I had been trying to download my pictures to the computer but it would not link up. Olympus America has a website that helped me out of my jam thank-you Olympus America!!!
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Summary: Camera
Review: This camera is awsome!! I use it to film sgort video clips with my friends and then I just add the sounds I want on my computer. In one we used Hotwheels cars and made it look real and we even made one blow up. Too bad I cant post the picture of that car exploding. P.S: We used a bunch of snap dragons to blow it up.
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Summary: Refining a really good Camera
Review: I have had several digital cameras over the last few years and the latest refinement of the 3000 series helps improve on the minor flaws in the last edition of this great camera. Besides being able to shoot great 8 x 10 scenics or watch pictures on my T.V. through my Camera with excellent quality, the new faster lens makes more low light flashless photography possible and the ability to upload pictures to the camera along with downloading in the previous version. The minor changes are significant enough for me so I can fix my pictures in my computer and watch them on my TV screen through my camera. There are so many great features on this camera including the remote control, multiple metering systems, multiple flash settings and remote flash capability, burst mode for multiple photos at high spead when needed, and even that movie mode for getting those birthday cake shots. Great value for a serious amateur photographer.
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Summary: Quite possibly the best there is
Review: I've lusted after a digital camera of my own for over 5 years now, but only recently made the leap to get one. A great deal of comparison shopping (and some time spent with a friend's Kodak which I found close to useless) lead me first to the C3030, then to the C3040 when it was released. First off, the enhancements to the C3040 make it definitely worth getting, if only for its storage-class USB interface. This means that you can plug it into a Mac, or a PC running Win 2000, Me or XP and access the pictures WITHOUT installing drivers. I can't say enough about how wonderful that is, especially given the flakey nature of some drivers I've encountered. Next up, the big negative: No built-in battery recharger. This, I don't like. It's too easy to drain the batteries accidentally with this camera. Definitely buy the AC adapter for it and use it any time you plug the camera into your computer. My experience is that this is when you're at the greatest risk of draining your batteries. It's also not a bad idea to get a set of rechargeable batteries. The video mode is nice, but be aware that a bigger memory card will not necessarily allow longer movies to be recorded. It seems that when you record a movie, it stores the video in its internal memory, then copies that to the memory card. I've gotten video of 30-60 seconds at a time, and that seems to be the limit. Another note on the video format: The QuickTime format that's recorded is not widely recognized. The Apple QuickTime player will play it, but other QT "compatible" apps generally don't. If you want to convert it to MPG, AVI or RM, you'll need to use either the full QuickTime app ([amt.] from apple). I've heard about, but not tried, a freeware app from abc.com which will also read these files. One would hope that future releases of this camera will include the full QT on the CD. One last warning: I found cheaper prices for this on the internet from an assortment of camera stores, but without fail, all those stores would only sell the camera at those lower prices if you bought an overpriced accessory pack along with it. Otherwise, they tended to claim that they were out of stock (in one case, I was told that the camera was discontinued (2 months after introduction!) and that I should get the C4040 instead). Amazon's recent price drop brings them in line with the few camera stores I found with allegedly good reputations, and I know I can trust amazon to deliver what's promised.
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Summary: feels right in the hands
Review: I like almost everything about the C-3040. It is indeed, user friendly, very well thought-out.unlike the Nikon coolpix 995, which i also own. with the Olympus, i can make onboard computer changes quite fast.but.......with the type of photography i do, the camera fails.the problems that the C-3040 and other digital cameras have , that should come to an end quite soon, i hope, are; 1)slow computer speed after a shot has been taken.and 2)have to use a lower quality picture mode to stop action, under low light conditions. (like SQ1) you will get grain . what's the sense of having a 3 or 4 meg camera when you can only get that quality under ideal shooting conditions?
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Summary: A Great Camera
Review: I have had this camera for several months now, and I am extremely happy with it. I find that this camera is easier to use than I expected (but that is not the same as simple). Don't lose the manual! Nevertheless, most of what you need to do often (resolution, macro, etc) are easy to remember. A negative is that the display can be difficult in bright light. Plusses are excellent optics, fine color and edge rendering, light weight, and availability of storage media at a reasonable price. The USB connection makes it very easy to move my photos from the camera to a PC (and relatively fast). This is a high quality camera in every way.
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