Olympus Camedia C-960 Zoom

I'm glad I bought the 960 zoom, but there are many issues you should be aware of - and some of them you won't realise until after your purchase. The camera was bought for £249 at a local PC World, as they had just reduced it from £299. I had kept an eye on prices at tradedoubler.com and this was a good compromise price - not the cheapest available, but I'd be able to return the item easily if it went pear-shaped! The 1.3 megapixel resolution has proved fine for my business needs - I use it for webdesign - and even produces reasonable A4 printouts using an Epson 640 inkjet (using photo paper). The preview/review function has proved ...  Read the complete review

Once upon a time, my lovely big sister gave me my first camera. Packed neatly in a box with its little plastic cover, I was so proud of it. It was a Brownie Camera. The little black and white photos I took with it are safely stashed away, the camera I’m afraid long since dumped and replaced with many varied models, some good and some terrible ones. During that time I grew up, got married and had a family. Finally as the flock left home we could afford a better camera! But which camera should we buy? The latest model my husband and I share, bought especially for our trip to Canada, but used regularly, because you don’t feel you are wasting film with a ...  Read the complete review

As a motor racing fanatic, I get very tired of the cost of developing hundreds of trackside photographs to find about four that actually have a whole car in the shot! Although really not able to afford a digital camera, I decided to stretch my budget as far as I could go with the view that it would be cost effective in the long run! I was very fortunate that when I went to look at digicams, PC World had a special offer on the Olympus-C960 Zoom reducing it from £300 to £250. It comes with an 8mb mediacard (which can hold over 100 800x600 - pictures at the second highest quality lebel, which I find adequate). I did want a bigger card though so also purchased a ...  Read the complete review

Two years ago you could expect to pay around £600 for a good quality digital camera. A friend of mine bought one for about £250, i cant recall the make of it but it gave a fish eye perspective. This wasnt very flattering when taking a portrait picture of someone you love (or dont as the case may be). At the same time i had another friend who bought a Kodak camera for about £650. He took a couple of medium strength shots of me in his conservatory and the images were astounding. I then realised that its not worth buying a camera under £400. So i didnt. Until now that is, I recently purchased the 960 on the grounds of price and brand name. I ...  Read the complete review

Frustrated by the appalling pictures taken by my previous camera (a Minolta APS if you're interested), and having just invested in a home PC, I decided it was time for me to get involved in this newfangled digital photography caper. So, with a few hours to kill in Duty Free before heading off on a 3-week business trip to Johannesburg, & needing to cheer myself up at the prospect, I treated myself to a C690Z, recommended to me by a knowledgeable shop assistant. Armed with a 32mb memory card (essential for long trips - the 8mb card which comes with the camera is insufficient) I set about learning the ropes. This was initially made difficult by the fairly ...  Read the complete review