Olympus - one up on the rest (Olympus Camedia C-300 Zoom)

Member Name: stainer1986

Product:	Olympus Camedia C-300 Zoom
Date:	21/04/05 (128 review reads)
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Advantages: Good picture quality, Easy to use

Disadvantages: Low Battery life, Bit Bulky compared to more modern designs

This camera offers outstanding picture quality, with a sexy style camera. What more can you ask for? It is kinda bulky, but not to the extent that it would proove to be a nuisance. My mother recieved this gift as a christmas present and has cherished the small amount of time she has used it for so far.

It easily downloads onto any PC via camedia, and can there be digitally enhanced to improve the quality just thet little bit more. There is very little loss of quality when you print the image, although it is definately worth using quality photo paper.
It also offers a very wide range o feature, for you to have a play with.

There are a couple of downsides to using this camera, which I shall say now from experience. Firstly the battery will drain very quickly. The camera requires 4 AA batteries, and can get through them in a day if you replay photos too much. If you purchase this camera it is defintely advisable to use rechargable batteries, to avoid high running costs. The instruction manual that comes with the camera is like a full novel, with tons of information that you will probably never read. This has to be included, but at times is very long winded.

To buy this camera you are looking at spending up to about £335, obviously dependant upon where you buy from, but this seems to be pretty average. However at ceratin sites it can be as low as £250. As I said before it is well worth getting rechargeable batteries, and these will cost you (with charger) about £50

Some of the cameras features
New camera has a 2.8x optical zoom lens.
3 megapixel CCD sensor.
'virtual mode dial'
night scene noise reduction,
pixel mapping,
panorama mode (using Olympus card)
3:2 image format.

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