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Olympus C-4000 Zoom Review

by Nikki Echler McDonald and Carla Thornton

- At $450, the C-4000 Zoom is an inexpensive advanced digital camera that doesn't skimp on features. Besides offering manual control of aperture and shutter speed, the camera can shoot in black-and-white, and it has a multiburst mode. We liked the option to take TIFFs at most resolutions, and the handy virtual-dial menu made switching among shooting modes and four sets of user-saved settings easy (though the menu disappears quickly when you're trying to make a selection). A dedicated button on the back jumps you to Digital Print Order Format (DPOF) settings.

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Reviewed by: tdeholt

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Strengths: The quality of the picture is excellent. There are many many extra features. Lots of things to change for a different picture. Great to start using, easy to learn.

Weaknesses: I believe the menus are confusing. The size as it's a little on the "Big" side.

Overall Evaluation: I have had my camera for about 4 years. I just signed up for a photo class on digital cameras. I dusted off the manual and boy. This camera does more than I could ever ask for. I was going to buy a new one. But I see this will be a great starter camera to learn on. There's so many features I am not sure how I'll remember them all. It takes great pictures. I have over 1000 pictures I have taken. The ones that are bad were my fault. I am very happy with this camera.
Reviewed by: picturelover

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Strengths: Picture Quality, number of manual controls.

Weaknesses: Slow, large size, lens cap.

Overall Evaluation: This is the fourth digicam I have owned and let me say first that none of the other, more fancy, smaller, cuter, sleeker, faster cameras will match this ones picture quality. I am one of the most fussy people I know when it comes to my pictures and these are stunning every time. The quality for me comes in the detail and true colors. I have owned two kodak digital cameras, one fuji, and one sony and they all overprocess the pictures to look more colorful and more tinted. I like the natural beauty of things and people and do not like things oversaturated. I have two young children and want to capture every moment of their childhoods and how they really are. I also own a very good Nikon SLR camera and this comes very close to those pictures. The lens cap is a little annoying but the larger lenses typically take better photos so I will deal with it. After all you buy a camera for the wonderful pictures it will take and not the size. If you are condisering this camera, buy it and you will not be disappointed.

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