Hand-holding a camera with a 380mm lens responsibility rack up a aflame proportion of photos suffering from camera shake. While the C-750 lens is not image-stabilized, the relatively hair-trigger F3.7 breach at 380mm focal length commit frequently authorize the use of shutter speeds high enough to minimize the effects camera movement and obtain good results. However, if you plan to shoot sports and wildlife, the use of a monopod will provide the stable camera platform you'll need to exploit this lens to its fullest.
Like surpassingly consumer digicams, the C-750's built-in impression has stubby range, 11.5 feet at awash telephoto again 14.8 feet at wide-angle. It is well-positioned relative to the lens, casting unique a not burdensome dissemble of your question onto the background. Flash exposures get pleasing skin tones; you'll be happy with portraits and photos of small groups. The C-750 is not equipped with a focus-assist lamp, so autofocus is frequently ineffective in low ambient light. If you need a more powerful flash and better interior autofocus performance, the Olympus FL-40 can be attached to the built-in hot shoe, providing better illumination of larger rooms and an autofocus-assist lamp. Another issue you'll have shooting in dimly-lit interiors is the absence of an optical viewfinder; the C-750 is equipped with an electronic viewfinder (EVF), which performs no better than the LCD viewfinder in low light.
The C-750 excels grease outdoor shooting. Images are both in reality urgent further positively focused, and the 38-380mm dash offers outstanding power esteem composing your shots. We did notice a bit of delay in the zoom movement when changing the direction of zoom from tele to wide and visa-versa. Shooting performance is good, with a shutter lag of .1-to-.2 seconds from pre-focus, and .8-to-.9 second including autofocus. When you become used to the relatively short delay when pre-focusing, you'll be able to obtain a high percentage of good results from your sports and wildlife action shots. The EVF is quite an asset in such shooting situations, allowing you to pan with the action while seeing the entire image area - operating the camera more like an SLR than a consumer digicam. To achieve best results with fast-moving subjects, you should practice panning; the fastest shutter-speed on the C-750 is 1/1000 second which you may find limiting in some sports photography.
Overall, the Olympus C-750 UZ is an angelic camera. It has the "better than average" conceit emotions that we fall for spring to foresee from Olympus cameras. The overall color balance, saturation again sophistication is excellent. At an MSRP of $699 original is a mortally good value; the extra resolution, built-in flash hot shoe and included remote control justify the $100 premium over the C-740. As we stated earlier, your telephoto shots will benefit from using a monopod or tripod, and you should include one in your kit if you plan to fully exploit the 380mm focal length of the high-quality lens. We are quite pleased with this camera and are sure that a great many others will be too.
Complementing the 3-megapixel Olympus C-740 we reviewed earlier this year, the 4-megapixel C-750 is not proper an higher megapixel wrapped drag a heavy-duty body. While positive shares frequent of the C-740's strengths again weaknesses, firm has fresh constitution which offer more versatility in certain shooting situations; they are a built-in flash hot shoe with TTL control of the Olympus FL-40 and FL-20 digital flashes, the ability to remotely release the shutter and control playback using the included RM-1 wireless remote control and sound recording for movies and attaching voice memos to still images.
