I love my Olympus! (Olympus Camedia C-40 Zoom)

Member Name: sydneytheduck

Product:	Olympus Camedia C-40 Zoom
Date:	23/09/02 (315 review reads)
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Advantages: Excellent Quality Pics, Small for a Digital Camera, Takes AA Batteries

Disadvantages: Edges taken against strong light can look 'digitized'

I've had my Olympus C-40 Zoom for a few months now and I take it with me everywhere! I can, because it's so small (for such a good quality digital) and lightweight. When I was looking for a new digital camera my main concerns were reliability, picture quality, and an optical zoom.

My friend had an Olympus 3030 and it took very impressive pictures, and that's what convinced me to look at the Olympus. I like the C-40z because it's compact (some digital cameras are still so bulky), is 4 Mexapixel, has a 2.8 Optical Zoom, plus the option to shoot short movie clips (although in .MOV format). Also it uses Smart Media, which is handy for me because my MP3 player does as well. Another plus is the fact that you can use 2 AA batteries with it rather than needing to spend a fortune on special ones. It does eat through them though so I have 8 rechargeable batteries and I keep at least 4 charged at any one time. It will use less battery power if you turn off the LCD screen when you can use the viewfinder instead.

I found it very user friendly and I was up and running in about 10 mins. In fact I still haven?t read the manual.

The only slightly negative thing I could say about the C-40z is that edges can look a bit odd when photographed against a strong light ? e.g. sunlight behind leaves, but I don't know if this is specific to this model.

I would highly recommend this camera to anyone and I wouldn?t be without mine :D

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