Customer Reviews

A Short Course in Olympus Camedia C-3030 Photography

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I am less than underwhelmed. I would venture to say that all of the information that applies to the Olympus C 3030 could be extracted from the book and would easily fit in 8 pages. The rest of the book talks about basic photography - material that I believe anyone that buys this kind of camera, would have stored away years ago.

I am not sure, but, I believe that much of the publication is "boiler plate". I would like to have someone compare it to the NIKON Coolpix 990 book and the Digital Photography book.

My point - when you bought your Olympus, the manual will provide most of the information that you need - and the other "tricks" of using the camera will be learned by trial and error or from someone else that has learned.

I really don't enjoy slamming a product, but I am just miffed over this book.

This book is exactly what I needed. Although the author did assume that the reader has mastered the mechanics of the camera, which this reader has not, he gave clear and explanation of the mechanics, together with step by step instructions and useful tips of photography technique. The manual that came with the Olympus C3030 was so poorly written that I could not use my camera which I bought half a year ago. I happened to stumble on this book while browsing for a guide to digital photography and I am so grateful that I did.

I ordered this book mainly because I wanted to learn more about the Olympus C 3030 Zoom digital camera which I own. The original Olympus owner's manual, IMHO, is terrible. This book is a better manual, with good explanantions and examples (that are not easy to see at times) but is it worth the price? I mean, it is a spiral notebook of 102 pages. (...) Also, when I read the description of the book at the author's site, it says that the book was loosely bound so that it could be updated readily. Well, my copy says "2000" on the inside page and I doubt anything has been changed since the original printing. Maybe if the book is ordered from Mr. Curtin directly, it is updated, but I prefer ordering books through Amazon because of this company's reputation for good customer service.

This book is also useful for those of us who have an Olympus C-3020 camera because the C-3020 is nearly identical to the C-3030 in so many ways.

This is a great book for not so experienced digital photographers.The specific references to the camera C-3000/3030Z
is a great tool for learning to use these cameras and getting the most out of them.