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Summary: Finally a great digital camera
Review: We love this camera! We bought it about 2 weeks ago and are having so much fun. We bought a Kodak 4800 first and had terrible results with the quality of picture. Very grainy and blurry. The C3000 camera is sharp and crisp. It is easy to use and is a lot of fun. It is great to be able to take pictures, download them, save them, and start over again. Our 5 year old loves to take pictures with it so much that we are going to look into getting him a less expensive one for Christmas. I strongly recommend this camera. Have fun!
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Summary: Nice camera - a little expensive
Review: This is a nice camera. It is just the right size - very small, but not too small to be hard to handle. The pictures we have taken with look great, both on printed photos (local printer and through online service) and on screen. Given that the camera was not cheap, I was a little dissapointed that I then had to dish out more money on the following: -memory card - it only comes with 8 MB, you probably want at least 32 MB -rechargable batteries and a charger -better editing software than comes with camera -cable for serial port (only an issue if you don't have USB, but you really need USB or the pictures take forever to download).
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Summary: This camera has made me into a photo junkie
Review: Before I saw this family of cameras in action, I didn't have an interest in digital photography. The company I worked for bought a C-3030 and I was called over to set it up. As I worked with it, I became more and more impressed. The USB connection is blazingly fast (assuming you're using Win95/98/2000), the LCD is sharp and bright, and the processing of the pictures themselves is very fast. Then I actually looked at a picture taken at 2048x1536 and my jaw dropped. Using just the defaults for white balance, ISO, shutter, etc., the picture it took of a hedge of flowers was amazing. Both the C-3030 and C-3000 have outstanding picture quality due to the well-designed Olympus optics and let you manually set just about everything for that perfect picture.
I searched around and bought a C-3000 because the greater onboard memory buffer of the C-3030 wasn't all that important to me, I didn't need Photoshop LE, and I was going to buy a 64 MB card for it anyway. The $200 you save, in my opinion, makes this a much better buy than the C-3030.
One photography magazine labeled the C-3030 "the camera for nerds" due to all the options you can set. If you're into it, this camera will let you explore photography as an art form. I'm still learning what I can do with it, but it's already produced some beautiful photos.
One recommendation I have is to buy a CD burner. Photo albums on CD save a mess of hard drive space and are a great way to permanently store pictures and then show them off to friends.
Finally, there is one feature that I don't see mentioned much elsewhere. In the panorama mode, if you take pictures in a complete 360, the Camedia software lets you create Quicktime VR movies out of them. This lets you truly express the feeling of being at a place. I did one at Lambeau Field and you do feel like you're in the crowd when viewing it.
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Summary: Remarkable achievement
Review: Incredibly versatile with superb pictures and excellent controls for real photo bugs who want to do manual overrides using aperture or speed prioritization. USB transfer is very fast.Only two criticisms: The lens cap is very easily dislodged. I have spent an inordinate amount of time looking for it with several close calls! Also you can't put a filter directly on the lens to protect it. This is the most expensive camera I've ever bought and the only one I can't protect with a filter. There is an answer: Olympus makes a kit that contains a lens cap retainer and filter + adapter. It also contains a number of other things I had already bought (very good rechargeable batteries, a case, AC adapter). It costs $200. You can't buy the lens cap retainer or filter/holder separately!
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Summary: fantastic pictures! worth every penny
Review: I just recently bought this camera and it's our first digital camera. i'm very impressed with the quality of the photos. i have scanned photos from my cannon 35 slr and the pics from the olympus are as good or better in quality. the detail and clarity , color of the pictures are amazing! the money was a bit much by the time you get some neeeded accesories. i bought the 64 meg smartmedia, and the usb reader writer, and a battery charger, not the olympus brand though, the energizer was half the price. the manual is nice and detailed and all works as advertised! overall you will be very happy with it!!
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Summary: looking for a camera?
Review: i got this camera just yesterday and love it. its very easy to learn what all those little letters and numbers mean if you just glance throgh the manual a couple times. you will definatly need 64 mb of memory. but its kinda silly, some of the options. why would you want to attach sound to a tiff file? i had been looking at some other colse competitors like the fujifilm finepix 4700 and sony DSC-S70. but the fujifilm couldnt take tiff files but could very esaly fit in your pocket while the sony can take tiff(i think) but its huge! this camera can almost fit in your pocket(tight fit) but it definatly has the goods. dont go with the nikkon series theyer not that great and for get the cannon s10 mabye the s20 (also 3.3 megapixle) but it cant take movies for the same price. this is defenatly the way to go but you cant store squat with anything lower that 16mb you can get a 32 card from amazon for a good price. it has full SLR opptions and you can leave the shutter open for at least 20 sec. appature from f2.8 till (i think) f11 very cool. the batteries it comes with last about 5-6 hours and arent rechageable. get the recgaable battery pack (your init till the end.) Its worth EVERY SINGLE PENNEY and comeing from a 13 year old thats a lata cash. this camera is very stylish and shopisticated for the year 2000 get it. enter a contest and get your money back. the best of luck!
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Summary: Beautiful design
Review: I love this stylish design. I can firmly hold it when shooting pictures and it feels pretty good. The advanced features are awesome. The only problem is the USB port cannot support my Win95 PC system. In short, this is my first digital camera and it meets all my demand.
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Summary: Olympus C3000
Review: Hello to whomsoever reads this! I just got possession of a C3000. It was a replacement for my older model. What a beast! I usually use a Canon AE1 SLR and this camera looks that for flexibility it'll beat it pants down! My only gripe is not with the camera but the fact that I didn't get the remote control - maybe that just doesn;t happen in the UK. I got it from Wallace Heaton in Bond street (the Queens camera provider, no less). And I can;t use USB on my PC as I'm Win95 and the docs say that you have to have Win98 at least - so downloading an 8 mb card takes20 mins! I locethee video ability and the sound track! The trouble is that the s/ware Olympus provide is not too good - it seems a bit slow and lack the facilities from earlier s/ware (v2,1) whereby you could set up the camera and preview in real tine on your PC and also one could delete the film from a pc dropdown menu instead of having to use the camera it's self to nuke the smartcard. I;ve had this thing for 6 hours and I love it - I'll get some magic moments! Thank you for your indulgence in reading - please reply to my email address - dave@entropy.freewire.co.uk
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Summary: Can't do much better than this
Review: I've had the C3000 for a month now and couldn't be happier (unless they supplied a useful size memory card). You need to get at least 32 meg of memory if you can't have a computer around all the time. Important note: the panarama feature is really great but only works with olympus memory. Go figure. It takes great ambient light photos and the flash is easy to control, allowing you to moderate the amount of flash. The only drawback I can think of is it cannot focus much closer than eight inches. The Nikon 990 has it beat there. The takes pictures faster than most cameras that I tried and boots up pretty quickly. The lens cap knocks off easily so get one of those lens cap tethers. This camera is super easy and takes an outstanding picture in the default mode but do yourself a favor and read the manual. This is one powerful pup. Also rechargable LiMH batteries are a must. You can fill a 32 meg card easily on one charge. If the price of the 3030 had been as low as it is now I would have sprung for the difference. Hey, don't waste you time with low res cameras. I recommend this one. You can't go wrong.
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Summary: The best camera
Review: I bought my first digital camera about five years ago, and I pay $400 for it, and it was good by that time but not better than a 35mm film camera, the resolution was pretty bad, the size of the pictures too small and just 1Mb of internal memory. I decided to buy a new one so I checked a lot of reviews about this camera. That you can see at . . . and other reviews of different cameras and my conclusion is that the Nikon Coolpix 990 is the one that takes the most beautiful pictures, has the best and amazing macro ability and excellent manual white balance. But the flash is the worst of all the digital cameras of this quality I have seen, has no audio ability and no remote control. The picture quality of the Nikon coolpix 990 is just very but very slight better than the olympus 3000, the white balance of the olympus 3000 can not be set up manually but is incredibly accurate, the macro mode is fair and good and my olympus 3000 has a very good flash with red eye control, audio ability, one of the best things the remote control and of course the price that is lower than the nikon not including the price of the bulky external flash that would be needed that is more. So for me this was the best buy and if you compare it with the olympus 3030 is also better because the only difference is the software included that I already have, 16MB smartmedia card I already have a 64MB one of my MP3 player and a feature that nobody uses much the 32MB of internal memory buffer that let you take longer mov movies. The pictures that I have taken with this camera are amazing a lot better than a 35 mm camera, the detail is incredible and if you have a very good printer you would enjoy the best pictures ever, It is so easy to use that everybody can be a professional, you can see the results immediately and if you do not like what you see just erase the picture, change the settings and take another picture. So there is nowhere else to go, this is the camera If you want to ask me something just write me an email to elcambur@yahoo.com
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