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Olympus C-5000 Zoom Review

by Tracey Capen

- Olympus's silver C-5000 straddles the line between a high-end point-and-shoot and a low-end advanced camera. It has a full-automatic mode that's best for quick shots or casual photographers. But it also comes with higher-end features, such as a hot shoe for an external flash, and a full set of manual and semiautomatic exposure modes (aperture- and shutter-priority, and manual). And it supports the noncompressed TIFF image format.

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User Reviews for Olympus C-5000 Zoom Digital Camera (Olympus-225415)

Reviewed by: jvfishermi

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Strengths: Good overall photo quality. Ease of use.

Weaknesses: Flash. Size of unit.

Overall Evaluation: Overall, a very good camera. My 3 oldest kids (9,7,5) all can take great pictures with it and can use it easily. While I said the size was a weakness, it is also a positive in that with small cameras they tend to break easier and are a little more difficult to use the controls. All of the controls are easy to use.
Reviewed by: CAW

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Strengths: Beautiful outdoor daylight pictures

Weaknesses: Poor shots in all indoor or low light situations, poor quality when zooming in, especially if indoors. Pictures are very grainy/noisy.

Overall Evaluation: I would not recomend this camera to anyone who wants good pictures (especially scrapbookers). I have sent it back to Olympus twice to have it looked at, they have updated the firmware, changed the lense and fixed some other minor thing and it is still no better. I was told to take pictures on a higher resloution, apparently HQ isn't good enough!? I am very disappointed with this camera, and I had always heard the Olympus was the way to go when buying a digital camera, well, not this one.

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