This is my 4th digital camera (prev Ixus V, Casio EX Z4 & Panasonic Lumix FZ2) so before buying this camera I had a pretty good idea of what to look for when I did my research.
First of all I appreciate a camera that can take crisp and clear pictures in any situation. Secondly I want to have a large zoom and also to have a big LCD screen would'nt hurt..
I believe that I have found all of that in the C-7000!
For my needs, where I carry my camera with me very often, I use the Casio Z4 because of it´s small size, but since I bought the Olympus I think that it has a quite OK "carrying size" too so the Z4 tends to be left home more often.
I can recommend this camera to anyone who wants an easy point'n'shoot camera as well as from time to time dig in to the meny system and experiment with all the settings. One good thing about digital photografy is that you can test different settings as much as you want, it won't cost you anything more than your preciuos time
Problems:
Well, even the sun has spots so here goes:
Redeye mode of the flash doesn't seem to help very much, I get redeye's in practically all indorr pics regardless of the setting of the flash..(however Olympus have a built in redeye correction in the camera meny which is a good thing)
The flash itself is in the way for your left hand index finger. Not a big deal, but an obvious design compromise that hopefully will be corrected in a later release.
The software that comes with the camera is much slower than any other camera SW I have used before. Downloading of the pics is OK but editing and simply watching the pictures in your album takes "forever" in my opinion. A suggestion is to use buy some other photo editing SW such as Adobe or try out some freeware perhaps. Note that the SW itself isn't complete. You have to purchase an optional key to unlock the complete editing features ! Only 20 USD, but still!
All in all it is still the best camera I have owned so far and the problems I have described are minor and if you are looking for a great camera don't let these "bugs" guide your descision, but it is good to know about them.
First of all I appreciate a camera that can take crisp and clear pictures in any situation. Secondly I want to have a large zoom and also to have a big LCD screen would'nt hurt..
I believe that I have found all of that in the C-7000!
For my needs, where I carry my camera with me very often, I use the Casio Z4 because of it´s small size, but since I bought the Olympus I think that it has a quite OK "carrying size" too so the Z4 tends to be left home more often.
I can recommend this camera to anyone who wants an easy point'n'shoot camera as well as from time to time dig in to the meny system and experiment with all the settings. One good thing about digital photografy is that you can test different settings as much as you want, it won't cost you anything more than your preciuos time
Problems:
Well, even the sun has spots so here goes:
Redeye mode of the flash doesn't seem to help very much, I get redeye's in practically all indorr pics regardless of the setting of the flash..(however Olympus have a built in redeye correction in the camera meny which is a good thing)
The flash itself is in the way for your left hand index finger. Not a big deal, but an obvious design compromise that hopefully will be corrected in a later release.
The software that comes with the camera is much slower than any other camera SW I have used before. Downloading of the pics is OK but editing and simply watching the pictures in your album takes "forever" in my opinion. A suggestion is to use buy some other photo editing SW such as Adobe or try out some freeware perhaps. Note that the SW itself isn't complete. You have to purchase an optional key to unlock the complete editing features ! Only 20 USD, but still!
All in all it is still the best camera I have owned so far and the problems I have described are minor and if you are looking for a great camera don't let these "bugs" guide your descision, but it is good to know about them.