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Summary: Finally impressed with a Digital
Review: I must say that I would like not to like a digital. However, this camera is really good. I have a good 35 mm and a Nikon film scanner. This camera, the Olympus 4000, comes really close in in image quality. The controls, manual shutter,f stop, and even a very cool manual focus, are a must for capturing the right images. Controls/menus are a bit confusing, however, like anything, you will adjust. The LCD screen is large and sharp. The camera is not too tiny, so one can hold it more firmly and not get a hand cramp either. Like the tiny cell phones can do to you. I bought this for my wife as a gift. I may buy one for me, too.
UPDATE....I did buy one. I liked it, however, after using the camera for one month, and on a trip to Italy, I returned it the place that I bought it. Many good things but, the digital cameras are too slow to react when you take/press the shutter. The zoom is slow, the LCD screen is often glared and the view finder is 75% of the image and skewed. Although quite impressive and versatile, change iso, color, hue and so on, I find the 35mm SLR to still be a much better camera for the same money. The digi-camera has a long way to go. Still, I believe that one in the family is great. My wife love's her Olympus C4000. I do at times. One nice thing...carrying the equivalent of 15 rolls of film in a tiny pouch was sweet, and no fear of the film getting ruined at airport scanners.
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Summary: Cool -- It works with Linux!
Review: If you're going to use this camera with Linux, don't waste your time with gPhoto (it won't work anyway). In fact, getting this camera to work with Linux is really easy.Just connect the USB cable to the camera and your computer and Linux automatically detects the camera as a SCSI device. So just mount it as normal: mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera And get your pictures from the filesystem!
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Summary: good camera
Review: I'd give it 4.5 stars...it misses getting 5 because the menu is somewhat cumbersome, it comes with only 16MB card and the lens cap can be bothersome at times. These are all minor complaints and can be overcome. Read on...
Once you get the hang of it, the menu is not that bad. Need to play with it a bit...and some favorite settings can be "preset". Picture quality is great. Very flexible/good performer under different conditions. Excellent value for the price. Invest in 64mb or greater card. Battery life is good. Very comfortable to hold. If you want a good camera, that has a few more "bells and whistles" than its competition, you can't go wrong here. It's a nice camera.
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Summary: We don't need no stinkin' retractable lens...
Review: This is my third (and best) Olympus digicam and I honestly think that I've sold more Olympi than Amazon this year. I tell everyone who asks that I think Olympus makes the best camera for the money, bar none. I got the C-4000 because I wanted more flexibility...and I got it. It's as easy to use as you want it to be but as powerful as you'd like it to be thanks to things like aperature and shutter priority. It's the first digicam I've owned where I can dial in depth of field via the aperature setting. It's got a great lens and, in my humble opinion, the best CCD on the market. As for the non-retractable lens... All of the C series cameras have a fixed lens to accomodate accessory Olympus or Tiffen lenses via a CL-1 adapter tube. That makes the thing expandable. You can even add filters if you want. You'd be surprised how a simple polarizing filter can make a cloud shot simply pop. You can't get that with a retractable lens. For vacation snapshots, I'll still use my little "D" series, but for images I want to frame, I'm reaching for the C-4000.
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Summary: Excellent!!!
Review: I have to say that I waited a long time for this camera, but it was worth it. The picture quality is outstanding with the capability of producing 20X30 photos using the default settings. The camera does not have the appetite for batteries that the earlier high-resolution digitals had. All the functions are completely adjustable and the capacity of the memory cards is very good (about 1 meg per picture at the default resolution). I have been into photography for more than forty years and can honestly say that I may never use my 35mm camera again.
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Summary: Great camera, great price
Review: This Camera really have some awesome features and queality for the price. For a 4 MP you can not go wrong. This is true for the 2002 Holiday season. I'm sure by next this time this will be outdated, but for now, you get good value for what you pay for.
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Summary: Does It All
Review: Needed a camera that would operate with ease for spouse who just wants to shoot good snapshots, and at the same time have enough manual capabilites for me to have some fun as an enthusiast. This camera takes great shots, is easy to learn how to use, and connects to our computer USB without installing or hassling with software. It does all we could ask of it. It is also small enough to be carried and large enough to help this 50 year old see and navigate the controls. Only beef is small memory that comes with it. Do yourself a favor an buy more memory and battery charger immediately.
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Summary: Almost perfect
Review: They almost got it right. I have owned mine for about 2 months now and have learned enough to make an informed comment.
The camera takes very sharp pictures, and most of the time the color is true. I love the ability to manually adjust everything, and the ability to adjust flash levels has come in very handy for me. The main problem with this camera is big, but stupid. It has a lens cap instead of a retractable lens. That isnt the bad part. The REALLY stupid part, is you HAVE to remove the lens cap before you turn on the camera, or the lens tries to extend, and it bangs into the cap which is attached to the body of the camera, not the lens. All this technology and this was the solution for the lens cap? I am still suprised that this is how the camera works. It is excellent that you have the ability to manually adjust everything, however it is a bit cumbersome until you get accustomed to it. You cannot be adjusting and taking pictures "on the fly". It is too hard to do that. Set the camera for the best general setting you are in and keep shooting. I had lots of problems taking pictures indoors of my one year old running around. Every shot was blurred, even if she wasnt moving very much. I had to change from "point and shoot" to manually setting the ISO to 400. That fixed the blurring problem. I now leave it at 400 for all general shooting. It is nice that it has a button you can program settings into, so you can use a one button push to change to your prefered settings. I havent used this option yet, but I know it will be helpful. The other big bonus for me on this camera was the ability to add lenses. This may be why the lens isnt retractable. I am going today to get some filters, and possibly a wide angle lens for it. I looked at many cameras that didnt have this ability. I am crossing my fingers that the lenses dont behave like the lens cap. If they do, I will make another review probably somewhat different than this one. Bottom line for me, is that it is much better than my old Cannon 2MP camera.... I have grown accustomed to the lens problem and I dont even think twice about taking off the cap first. The menus...well, I am still working on those. If you buy one, plan on there being a learning curve involved. Knowing what I do now, I would still buy this camera.
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Summary: First Time Digital Camera Users - We Love This Camera
Review: With research and talking to everyone we could think of before buying, we finally decided on the Olympus -- which we took on an extended New England vacation to see the ocean and the changing fall colors of the area. Terrific subject matter for testing out a new camera. We also took a 35mm Nikon and used 200, 400, and 800 film. All pictures are back now to compare and WOW! Considering we didn't know everything about properly using the Olympus digital, we were amazed at the pictures! The colors were often better and more true in digital than the Nikon 35 mm. The digital pictures had much better lighting indoors by far (compared to our 35mm) when we were inside large buildings, like old barns, museums, and a manufacturing plant, where a flash was useless. The digital camera picked up details at great length with excellent exposure and clarity. It also had zoom capabilities, and for our picture taking style, it is the only part of the camera we wish offered more -- more zoom. Another great feature to us was that it has rechargable batteries. We recharged at the end of each touring day and were ready to go again the next day. We took several hundred pictures and nearly every one was a keeper.
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Summary: wow
Review: This is my first 4mb digital cam and i love it it takes very good picture sharp and does not change the color
i bought the cam over a month ago and i took over 500pic useing the same batts that i'v got with my cam. so i dont know yet regard other batts but the power seems to last.
I use the auto mode for most of my pics and use the cam lcd to review them.I also used the man mode and know it's good to have control at all the parm live speed and F ... and so on
i took some night shot at slow speed (16sec) that came out excelent and also some micro shots. I recomend this cam for all i bought it for 500$ after tax and I'm happy even dou you can get it for under 500$ when you buy this cam or any other dont forget to buy lot's of mem and batts
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