Olympus C-750 Ultra Zoom

This is a camera that was bought for me as a gift. The camera is one that has a 10X zoom and "manuel features" but over all the camera is a plastic toy. The image quality has never been acceptable from this camera for one that is 4mp. I have alot of noise and artifacting visiable in my pictures. The camera is slow to focous if it will focus at all. Also the camera is just really slow.

Good camera if your looking for one to start with.

Noise Price Slow AF No AFC mode Flash Lense distortion i could go on for days

This is the only digital camera i have ever used alot. But film camera wise it does not stack up to a Nikon N80 or a Rolie

Never used

Olympus is a great name in cameras; but I'm VERY disappointed with their Camedia C-750. After reading a few good reviews, I decided to buy this camera when it first hit the market. The advertisements sound great; but after using the camera for over 6 months, I've find it to be a big disappointment. (See strenths and weaknesses below. The strengths are why I bought it ... the weaknesses are why I reget having done so.)

Durable Metal Body Has both a viewfinder and LCD screen. Compact Size Good Zoom (as long as you stay with the optical ... the digital zoom gets too grainy) Good Battery Life (AA alkaline or NiMN)

Slow focusing indoors or in other low-light conditions(sometimes won't focus at all). Also, the night scene mode is a joke ... unless you use a tripod, you WILL get blury photos. Auto-focus is sluggish (even in good lighting); so blury shot are an all too frequent occurance. Not the most user-friendly menu system. Poor quality macro shots (This is mainly because of low-light problem. By the time you get the camera close to the object, you've blocked out too much light to focus.) Must buy Olympus brand XD Picture Card in order to use the camera's panaramic mode. Flash is slow to recharge between pictures (10-15 seconds with new batteries installed) The picture quality is good; but not as good as some other camera's I've used.

Canon C-50 Sony Mavica FD-83 Sony Mavica CD-300

Haven't used

Well, I waited and waited...and held out to the digital revolution for as longas I could. having been a 35mm SLR user for 16 years, I wasn't in any rush to go out and spend a small fortune on a digital compact! But alas...I did some homework and decided the digital imaging technology could no longer be ignored. After some months of agonising, I plumped for the Olympus C-750 (but could just as well have gone for the Panasonic Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ10). I have used Olympus cameras for a few years now - OM10, OM20, OM4, Trip-35 etc. Canon have been so keen to offer the rich-man-poor-man option of "Professional L series lenses" (out of any one's price range)and "consumer lenses" (cheap and nasty). Olympus simply gave quality products without any discrimination and to this day, any of their 25 year old Zuiko lenses would EASILY match one of Canon's Image Stabilised L series electronic marvels for image quality. My only regret is that I used canon EOS cameras for 12 years before I discovered 1970's Olympus cameras! Anyway, back to the C-750. I went for Olympus simply because I like their no-nonsense philosophy and thus bought the C-750 which seemed to get good reviews and had the sort of features I wanted. I put the camera through its paces, trying out all the various options, different settings, apertures, shutter speeds, even new fangled things like contrast and white balance etc. As can be expected from Olympus - the instructions are excellent! The camera is VERY user friendly and you get the hang of it in a very short time. Blissfully, the battery life LONG and things like zoom response, sutter lag etc are all very satisfactory. As for image quality - well, if you simply use the "P" or "Auto" modes, then the images, even when set on HQ still have that "digital" look about them. But as soon as you switch to Manual mode ("A/S/M") and start underexposing by about 0.3-0.5 stops (yep - that's possible!!) and keeping shutter speeds above 1/60, you get a much more natural look. I prefer to get the look right at the photography stage, rather than to tinker things afterwards. No amount of post-photo enhancing is as good as getting the exposure just right WHILE taking the photo. The lens copes well accross the entire zoom range (pity the range isn't numbered) and all the way from f2.8 to f8.

Metal body Manual control Manual focus possible Long battery life Good lens (aspherical, ED glass) 10x optical zoom, superb macro. User fiendly Good image quality Negligible shutter lag Its an Olympus! :o)

Camera body too small! Lens rattles a bit Not possible to attach filters directly Accessories expensive!

None - new to digital photography. But have taken into account that this is after all, a 4 MP compact digital.

Never needed it in the past - and I now own used 1970's Olympus SLR cameras that still work a treat!!

This camera has everything I wanted in a digital camera. The 10X zoom is great. You will need a tripod to take full advantage of the zoom without any camera shake. The picture quality is very good also. I shopped around for a few weeks before finally deciding on this camera. The price, features and 10X zoom was what lead me to this camera. This camera had the best price to feature value.

10X zoom. picture quality. price. long battery life. can use alkaline AA batteries if needed.

Low light focusing. No picture stabilization during zoom.

Sony DSC-S50 for 3 years.

Not needed

Great camera with a good price. A lot of features.

X10 optical zoom. Well built optical system. X4 digatal zoom. Light and handy. Long battery life. Full of options. Easy to use. One of the best image quality you can find in digicams today

XD picture card is a bit expensive.