Olympus C-5000 Zoom Digital Camera (Olympus-225415)

Olympus C-5000 Zoom

C-5000 Zoom Digital Camera (Olympus-225415) Review, by Tracey Capen December 19, 2003

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• Reviewed by: jvfishermi

  Strengths: Good overall photo quality. Ease of use.

  Weaknesses: Flash. Size of unit.

  Overall: 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

  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: 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.

• Reviewed by: sonyatong

  Strengths: very clear

  Weaknesses: a little big

  Overall: good to use, easy to handle. The picture is very clear. It is a really good camera. Compare to other same function camera, it is cheap. LCD is big. Easy to look. Great camera.

• Reviewed by: heraldonline

  Strengths: Very good image quality. many features and manual adjustments. The best for the price.

  Weaknesses: No Auto focus assist lamp, slow start up time.

  Overall: A true bargain $400 for a camera with so many resources of manual adjustments and excellent image quality. I think those that didn't get good results with her need to read the manual of instructions better and to familiarize with the manual adjustments, or then they received a defective unit. Not always it is gotten good results in the automatic way, in any camera. The intensity of the flash can be adjusted or an external unit can be used for better results. And if you want to record video whith audio, buy a digital camcorder and not a photographic one.

• Reviewed by: brandix

  Strengths: Features, size, location of flash, flexibility, ease of use, size of display, durability

  Weaknesses: not aware of any at this time

  Overall: I bought this camera because it offered a lot of features for a reasonable price. The fact is has 5 megapixels is a plus as I like to enlarge photos and retain quality. I've had good experience with Olympus in the past and anticipate a similar experience with this camera. I like the camera's features and it's ease of use. It has all that I was looking for in a camera yet still maintains its compactness. Very nice camera! Will recommend to others.