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Olympus C-5050 Zoom
Editor's Review
The five-megapixel Olympus C-5050 Zoom offers professional-grade features for serious photographers. Compatible with xD-Picture Cards, SmartMedia, and Compact Flash, this camera gives its users a rare degree of choice among memory formats. A magnesium body and a full suite of manual controls complete the professional look and feel of this camera. Please check back soon to see professional and owner reviews and an HQ Score.
Specifications
- 5.0 megapixels (effective)
- 3x optical zoom/3.4x digital zoom
- auto and manual focus
- program and manual exposure
- JPEG
- TIFF
- and RAW file formats
- ISO range 100 - 400
- 4 AA batteries
- movie mode with sound
- Part Number: 225355
- UPC: 00050332138216
- Release Date: May 07, 2003
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Olympus C-5050 Zoom Comments & Questions (write your own!)
Small LCD display is the only drawback, especially in poor light
But allow me to make an pitch for using several cards, rather than one large one. Reason being, insurance. Any memory card can fail or become corrupted. And when you're on vacation the last thing you want is to lose the opportunity to take pictures until you can recover that media card with a software utility. If your card goes bad, swapping another one for it at that moment is of advantage so you can keep taking pics. Then, later when you're in front of your PC, you can use a utility like "F-Recovery" ( [url=filerecoverytools.com/produ... ) to get back your pictures and recover your card.
No need to lose the moment because you relied on one card one when several can solve that problem. At the very least, you want to get more than one of whatever size you settle on.
The best way would be to do your own custom white balancing which is what we will try if this does not get your desired results.
Sorry.
Good luck-
Olympus C-5050 Zoom Reviews
Olympus C-5050 Zoom Reviews by Digital Camera-HQ Users
- 4.0 out of 5
Just one disappointing feature, is that the maximum Xd format card you can use on this camera is 512Mb. I bought a 1G and it would not format or accept it.
- 3.0 out of 5
My C5050 has been sent back to the supplier twice for the same fault, the first time after only 1 month and then again a year later. As I live in Cyprus this meant sending it back to the UK both times - time and money. The handling back to Olympus and aftersales by my supplier, Digital First Ltd was excellant. The fault, the On/Off switch faulty both times and the camera out of action. Otherwise the only quibble I have is the lens cover, I soon bought a hinged version from another source. Sadly the LCD screen is virtualy useless unless it is inside out of the light like most of its type - apart from these problems the results and useability are fine - but I must admit I always carry another camera now if I am away from home in case the switch goes again. It is my first experience of Olympus as I have had Minolta SLRs for the last 35 years (still have them - no problems with the SRT 101)
