Olympus Camedia C-5050 Zoom

Olympus Camedia C-990 Zoom

As my old Olympus camera was just passing it s 15th birthday I thought I should invest in a new toy. I originally started with a budget of around £300, but was soon persuaded to up that a little as I wanted to print pictures onto A4 paper and was told that for best results I should go up to a 2 mega pixel camera. In this class was also a Jenoptic and a Fuji. The jenptic really didn t appeal as I haven t a clue who they are. Fuji I know make very good films, but I didn t know about their cameras. I had a demonstration of the Fuji and the Olympus. Of the two, the Fuji appeared to be a little fiddly with it s menus and did not seem to have as good a build quality, so I ...

Olympus Camedia C-960 Zoom

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 16mb one for an additional £49.99. The C-960 is extremely versatile and easy to use. It takes 4 AA size batteries (and eats them for breakfast but all digicams do that!) I looked into the cost of an AC adaptor as it seems particularly that downloading the images to the PC takes the most juice out of ...

Olympus Camedia C-960 Zoom

camera under £400. So i didnt. Until now that is, I recently purchased the 960 on the grounds of price and brand name. I would always trust Olympus . Another thing was that i thought they were far too complicated to even bother with. I have now been proved quite wrong. The C960 is a nice compact camera that is not only pleasing to look at but is very practical in its design. The holding position is comfortable and even if your really bad a photography its very difficult to get your fingers in the way of the flash or the lense. Lets take the body of the camera first. Silver or grey seems to be the standard colour for cameras these days as opposed to the the ...