Olympus Camedia C-3030 Zoom

PLEASE SEE OTHER REVIEWS FOR TECHNICIAL INFORMATION. BACKGROUND: I just wanted to point out that 6 years on from buying this camera second hand for £375 via ebay, it is still in use and performs very well. Originally it was around £800-900, I bought mine approx 1.5 years after it was released. QUALITY OF BUILD: This is not just evident externally, but the internal circuitry must be welded in securely. I say this because I have dropped it more times than I'll admit, on hard surfaces such as concrete/tarmac. It just keeps going and amazes me how many knocks it puts up with. I'm not really a traveller but I've been unfortunate ...  Read the complete review

Want to join the digital revolution ? Itching to get rid of all those out of focus or wrongly framed wasted snaps? Now is the time. I bought the Olympus C3000 one year ago in Malaysia to replace a C830 I had lost and as it was around 100 pounds less than the price back home. This particular model was not available in the UK but I have included it here for reasons that will become apparent. The Olympus digi-cam is targeted toward the amateur photographer who wants to take holiday/ special event photos or ones to add to their web site. Digital photography, like everything else, is a series of compromises; features versus cost, weight versus ...  Read the complete review

I bought an Olympus 3030 after reading the usenet group rec.photo.digital for some time, to replace an SLR that was getting quite old. I've found the smaller size excellent, but the 3030 is not as compact as some other digital cameras. Any camera is a compromise; at this price you should expect very good quality and I have been very happy with computer images and prints. It takes a while to learn, and the shutter seemed to have a delayed action until I got used to it. I find the screen at the back not as good for taking pictures as the viewfinder, and noses rub against the screen leaving a smear which makes the screen even less useful. The detail ...  Read the complete review

Digital cameras of this company are rightfully considered one of best, and camera C-3030Zoom — not exception. C-3030 — this first 3 megapixel device in the linee very ingenious and already achieved broad confession of digital cameras of series C-2000, intended for the broad circle of users. As far as disiny of these cameras is well perfect, but famous company in this sense on-good is conservative, exterior and functional possibilities of new camera remind C-2020Z. However style body of black colour more looks like traditional photodevices and looks, certainly, more solid. Camera has not only optical, as well as ...  Read the complete review

The Olympus 3030Zoom is my first foray into digital cameras. What a great camera it is. With so many options in terms of manual control and also image formats (there are 15 options in all) then this camera is the one to go for. I am not a photographer but wanted a camera that would give good quality pictures with little effort on my part. This camera does that as it has many automatic options - that can be set manually - and the picture quality at 1600 x 1200 is absolutely superb up to A4 size on Photo Quality paper. At around £700 it is not cheap, but should be the only digital you would need to buy. The menu system could be better, ...  Read the complete review