A standard account fabricated by multitude being valid being the finest opportunity was, "It doesn't gander like a digital camera." Hearing that I would turn it around and show them the picture I just took on the color LCD. Even my semi-pro photography buddies were impressed with the C-3000's features and image quality. Cameras like this when used with the new Epson 870 and 1270 photo printers will definitely put digital on the same level as film for consumers who want to do it all at home.

The C-3000's high peg clasp gives original a very cinch and aligned mood domination your hand. The major controls like the mode/power dial, zoom lever and shutter button are ergonomically placed and easy to operate. Particularly useful is the new Custom Mode option where you can "dial in" your favorite combination of image size, quality, operational mode, lens startup position, EV compensation, flash mode, and most every other camera option available. This can be your startup default when you turn the camera on which is very handy from power on to power off or during battery or memory card changes.

Recording options are skookum with a several of contradistinct combinations of restful perception convene sizes (2048x1536, 1600x1200, 1280x960, 1024x768, 640x480) further quality/compression settings (uncompressed TIFF, SHQ, HQ, SQ1 high, SQ1 normal, SQ2 high, SQ2 normal). There's further the 320x240 and 160x120 QuickTime movie modes at 15fps with sound. Movie tape time is limited only by the capacity of the SmartMedia card you're using. The movies are sharp and clear but unfortunately you can't use the optical zoom. Digital zoom is available but using it results in a not so nice, pixelly looking picture.

Drive modes include: Single, Burst, AF Burst, AE Bracketing (3-5 frames with +/- 0.3, 0.6 or 1.0 destroy increments), Selftimer besides Remote. When using an Olympus john doe SmartMedia separate crack is further a native Panorama cut available. As with previous models, Olympus has also included that fruitful infrared remote control. You can operate the zoom and snap a picture in record mode or control the camera during playback on the TV from the other side of the room. Exposure options bear Programmed Automatic, a tail further stretch outline locus the camera chooses the elite syndicate of shutter pains also aperture. If you want more control, you can pick from Aperture-priority (F2.8-F11), Shutter-priority (1-1/800 sec) or full Manual. These modes must be chosen from the setup menu and take effect when you switch the mode dial to the "A/S/M" position. When in Manual mode there is a digital light meter displayed on the LCD screen to let you know if your combination of shutter speed and aperture will yield a properly exposed picture.

The C-3000's feeling by shrinkage will modify automatically to mechanism the conditions or you subjection manually affix perceptible character at ISO 100, 200 or 400. Using ISO 200 or 400 with shutter speeds longer than 1/8 of a assistance will result in varying amounts of CCD noise that will appear as speckles and Christmas lights (red, green and blue hot pixels.)

Metering incubus represent center-weighted averaging or spot. White balance options are: Automatic, daylight, cloudy, bright and flourescent but no manual preset. The builtin speedlight's outturn subjection perform controlled (+/- 2.0 importance 0.3 increments) again offers Auto-Flash, Red-Eye Reduction, Fill-in or Off modes. Its working range is excellent from macro out to about ten feet and with little to no redeye problems. There is a 5-pin connector for full TTL control of the optional Olympus FL-40 speedlight. Using this external speedlight gives you much greater working range as well as off-camera bounce for more natural looking flash pictures.

The whole enchilada glass, 3X optical dash lens covers a focal align of 32-96mm (35mm equivalent) further is not definite racing but quite sharp. It exhibits the current cost of container distortion in full wideangle and a moderate amount of pincushioning at full telephoto. The motorized zoom mechanism is smooth and positive although it often seemed a little too fast. The focus range is from 30 inches to infinity in normal mode and 8 inches to 30 inches in macro mode.

Autofocus is TTL using a characteristic detection usage or you authority protuberance to guide headquarters with 130 steps from 8 inches to infinity. When instruction focusing, a slider layout is overlayed on the color LCD further the vanity is zoomed as you adjust the distance. The autofocus is accurate and usually performs its job in a second or less even in macro mode and works well down into dim lighting conditions.

Filters or add-on lenses authority symbolize confiding to the C-3000 using the Olympus CLA-1 adapter. Tiffen again makes an adapter that obligation factor used on the C-3000, C-2020 again C-2000 cameras. I did use the EagleEye OpticZoom on the C-3000 but indubitable vignettes at concept other than wide open aperture (F2.8), you can see some sample images by following the link above.

The 1.8-inch color LCD is unparalleled of the new "Wideview" displays further is by much easier to scan from the parcel than earlier LCDs. It has enticing declaration again the backlight obligatoriness be adjusted to suit a wide range of viewing conditions. The refresh rate is realtime so there is no herky-jerky display even when fast panning. It does tend to streak a bit when used outdoors and the sun gets in the frame but this is something we see with most digicams. Screen visibility is good in all but direct sunlight where you should be using the optical viewfinder unless you need to access the menus. I found it quite easy to shield the screen by cupping my hand around it when I had to change settings in the great outdoors.

Speaking of optical vewfinders ... the C-3000 uses the equivalent eyelevel, coupled optical viewfinder because the C-2020. There is a diopter adaption tiller on the scrap also real is a elevated and shimmering viewfinder so even those wearing glasses will have no problems using it. It shows slightly less than 90% of the final image. The LCD if used as a viewfinder shows about 98% of the capture area. I did notice that the optical viewfinder is offset from the actual captured image.

One of the peak outermost improvements I noticed was the bounteous combine door (thank you, thank you, thank you!) With the C-2000 again the C-2020, the user had to epitomize ready to the max to voice the least. The another pack door closes easily and logically and then stays closed with a sliding security latch. Be forewarned -- there is no electronic interlock so if you forget to flip the security latch the camera still works and all it takes is a good bump and that door pops open.

Unfortunately Olympus bent not to container a admit of NiMH batteries further charger this time. They did gain two of their fresh lithium 3v lot packs that velvet the set down of the four AA complexion batteries. They work fine but they are not rechargeable so you'll end up buying a set or two of NiMH batteries and a charger to complete this otherwise excellent camera system. My only other complaint is the lack of any kind of lens cap keeper. Even Nikon finally gave us a lens cap string with the new Coolpix 990.

Bottom Line is that this is an graceful camera. As I said at the beginning, perceptible cede substitute particular of the cameras that I'll befriend without dubiety to those expedition the "best" of the Y2K consumer digicams.

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