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Summary: best camera I have owned
Review: This is my 3rd digital camera.I spent quite a bit of time reading reviews and customer comments on the web. I am an amature, but I wanted a camera that was resonably fast so that my photos would not be blurry when the subject moved a little. I had the Oly D-490 and could not get decent photos of my grandbaby because she is on the move when she is awake.
There are so many features that make this a great camera for beginners as well as more advanced photographers. The photos that I have taken indoors have been much better than my other camera. The flash seems to do a good job without much distortion of color. There is a delay between shots when using the highest resolution setting SHQ. This is somthing that people new to using digital cameras will have to get used to.
Many reviews complain about how fast digicams use up batteries.
I strongly suggest using an external battery pack. I have been using a MAHA PowerBank for almost 3 years. I can take over 100 photos with it and then charge it back up in about an hour. That is while leaving the camera LCD viewer on. If I did not use the LCD viewer, I am sure the PowerBank would last longer. It costs around $50.00.
I don't plan on buying another camera until this one no longer functions. I have purchased three of these cameras for my family members so they can have fun and e-mail photos to me. They all love it, too.
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Summary: Great Pictures and Does Everything!
Review: This camera covers the gamut from Point-and-shoot to Full Manual, with everything in-between. Worked seamlessly with iPhoto too. Battery life is great with over 200 shots on the set of included batteries. The rechargeable types never seem to hold a charge for me. These new Li-ion batteries have a 10 year shelf life which is great for me. No more picking up the camera just to find dead batteries - like my video camera.
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Summary: My favorite camera
Review: I own and have owned many cameras, but this one is by far my favorite. It will function as a "simple point and shoot" as well as manually. You can set it to take a portrait, a landscape, or even a back-lit photo. You can adjust the shutter speed and the aperature opening at the press of a button. It has a timer and a special function to keep self-portraits in focus and the zoom is amazing. I describe it to my friends as the last camera I'll ever need. I am very pleased with the picture quality I recieve. The software it comes with for editing your photos is mediocre, but that's the same as with all the cameras you can buy. I recommend this camera to amature as well as more advanced photographers. Amature will love it's ease and the advanced will love it's features.
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Summary: very, very clear pictures
Review: knowing nothing about photography...didn't read the manual...just turned it on, point, click, and shoot.Some of the best photographs I have ever seen. Printed in conjunction with HP130 photo printer. Even use some of the many, many features, but it would be worth it without them. THE QUALITY IS SUPERB!
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Summary: Excellent, Powerful and Not Expensive
Review: This is my second digital camera, the other being a Sony Mavica 1.6MP. That camera was pretty good under ideal conditions, but the Olympus 4000 blows it away in terms of image quality and flexibility. With the Sony, I would have to color-balance nearly every photo in Photoshop to get a proper tonal range, but the Olympus automatically does everything for perfect images every time (even offering to show you the histograms as proof!). The range of settings available, as well as the flexibility of the menu system, makes this camera a pleasure to use. Even with extremely low-light conditions, using a fixed camera and subject, excellent images are possible, with up to 16-second exposure time! If I could change one thing it would be to add a more powerful optical zoom, and perhaps to include at least 32M of storage out of the box. Sometimes it's difficult to take indoor shots of moving subjects (namely, 15-month-old toddler), but that's typical of any camera. I've noticed that some people have complained about the manual being poor... the truth is that the paper manual is only a reference guide for the massive 260-page electronic manual which comes supplied as a PDF file on the CD. This manual goes over every function in minute detail with many, many charts to show what functions can and cannot be used together. Do yourself a favor if you own the camera and read it--there are lots of things you will learn about how use your new toy. Of course, something cheaper and better will come along eventually, but if you're considering this one, it's a great buy!
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Summary: Awsome Picture
Review: My girlfriend has an Olympus3.2 and loves it. When I told her that I would like one for Xmas she bought it for me. What a camera. Once you figure out the menu it is so easy to use. Just got back from a ten day cruise and took over 189 pics. Eveyone of them was sharp and clear. This camera takes great closeups or panoramic pics. It is so much fun to use that I find myself searching for pictures to take. I am not a professional, but I tell you what... if I ever decide to get another camera. You can bet it will be an Olympus. We already have three in our family. My girlfriend,her daughter and myself. Keep up the good work Olympus.
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Summary: false info.
Review: ok, let me start off by saying that many people think that the menu on this camera is difficult to understand. i dissagree with that common statement. i think that the menu on the c-4000 can be navigated with ease, if you have common sense. i found no difficulty while navigating the menu. and about that redeye thing, the camera has a red eye reduction flash feature. obiusly someone didn't read their manual. the guy that said the manual was not helpfull must have purcsed a gray market camera (gray market- camera made for use in another country, uasaly very cheep), ... also this camera has mimamal sutter lag.
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Summary: 35 MM who needs you
Review: Now I see why digital is comming on. This camera is everything it says. The pictures are great. the ability to send them by E-mail or burn them on CD's for slide shows makes you the producer. Of course you can print them with a photosmart printer getting excellient results. This area is costly though, but no waiting for the photo shop to deliver. The only area I wished an improvement on, was the opitical zoom. For the money that is, 5X instead of 3X should have been a go.
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Summary: Not sure if I like yet!!!
Review: I had a hp720 camera that I exchanged for this olympus c 4000.The complaint i had with the hp was that it gave the red eye real bad. The olympus seems to do the same thing.I am not sure if i am any better off with the olympus than i was with the hp720.The hp camera seemed easier for me to use than the olympus does. The olympus pictures seem to be better quality as far as true color. If anyone has this camera do you have any solutions for the red eye(indoors)? I am not sure if I will even keep this camera yet. I have small childern and want something easy to use. I do not have time to try and figure out alot of settings.
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Summary: Camera is wonderful. Documentation isn't.
Review: Let me begin by saying that this is a wonderful camera. I don't have a lot of experience with digital cameras yet, but having been a semi-professonal film photographer for a long time, I'd say the image quality here is very good. You have to eat up lots of memory, of course, but that's a given. With this camera, you also have to be willing to go through some fairly intricate "on screen" menus if you want to deviate from the default settings. The defaults are fine for most purposes, though. My only complaint is that while the manual is multilingual, it is not very helpful. It tells you the obvious, but does NOT tell you that if you enable X function, you will disable Y and Z functions. Although I've taken many photos that I'm pleased with, I STILL have to figure out how to enable some of the features. I'll use the 800 number once the holidays are over. Overall, great camera, mediocre manual.
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