Olympus C-2000 Zoom 2.1MP Digital Camera

by Olympus

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• Product Dimensions: 29 x 4.2 x 2.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00000JFOA
• Item model number: C-2000Z
• Batteries: 4 AA batteries required. (included)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,250 in Camera & Photo (See Top 100 in Camera & Photo)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 4, 1973

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Olympus puts a professional-quality digital camera in a small, beautiful package with the C-2000 Zoom. With amazing 1600 x 1200 uncompressed image capability, a 3x zoom, and a wide variety of manual settings, this tiny wonder is a great choice for everyone from travelers and families to graphics professionals.

The first thing that impressed us was the Olympus C-2000 Zoom's compactness; it's one of the smallest digital cameras we've seen. Its unique styling makes it look like a miniature SLR. Its 1.8-inch LCD, while smaller than those of most digital cameras by necessity, was very bright and sharp and was fine for all our picture-taking needs. The Olympus C-2000 Zoom takes four AA batteries; we recommend investing in rechargeable NiMH AAs, since you'll probably go through them rather quickly. (The LCD screen, in particular, takes a lot of power.)

The Olympus C-2000 Zoom has one of the highest resolutions on the consumer market, at 1600 x 1200 dpi. It also lets you take images at 1024 x 768 and 640 x 480. In addition, you can take 1600 x 1200 uncompressed TIFF images--you can only fit one or two on a memory card, but when you need the absolutely best-quality image, you'll want this feature.

The Olympus C-2000 Zoom has a great selection of manual options--it lets you adjust exposure, focus, and even the ISO film-speed equivalent. In addition to manual and auto exposure, it gives you shutter- and aperture-priority options. The C-2000 Zoom provides multiple flash modes (auto, off, fill-flash, slow-shutter synch, and red-eye reduction) and even lets you attach a separate flash unit.

The Olympus C-2000 Zoom comes with an 8 MB removable SmartMedia memory card; you can buy separate memory cards in 16 and 32 MB configurations for plenty of picture storage. The Olympus C-2000 Zoom came with everything we needed to connect to our PC; downloading and manipulating our images was easy. Overall, it was a great-looking little camera with all the features we needed and more.

Pros:

• High resolution and uncompressed image options
• Very compact for a digital camera
• Wide range of manual settings
• 3x zoom

Cons:

• Battery case is hard to close

Amazon.com Product Description

The filmless digital C-2000 ZOOM gives you everything you'd ever want in a camera. As a high-end 3x optical zoom camera, it gives you all the picture you'd ever want with its 1600 x 1200, 2.1 Megapixel resolution. Along with all the controls you'd ever need, including aperture-preferred and shutter-preferred auto exposure and spot metering - plus manual exposure overrides you can use to capture all the subtle nuances of light. But that's not all. Housed in a convenient, compact, aluminum chassis, the C-2000 ZOOM is also the perfect point-and-shoot camera, offering all-automatic focus, exposure and white balance, as well as auto flash in low and back-lit conditions.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

86 of 87 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Great photos, Batteries are MAJOR issue, November 23, 1999

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Robert L. Habermehl (Louisville, KY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Olympus C-2000 Zoom 2.1MP Digital Camera (Electronics)

This camera takes great pictures and is easy to understand and use. It has a MAJOR drawback though, and I may be returning this camera and buying a different one. The drawback.... It EATS batteries ! A set of Heavy Duty Alkalines will barely last 20 minutes (even with the LCD display turned off.)! I bought two sets of 1200 MA rechargeable batteries from Radio Shack plus a quick charger ($60 worth), and can barely get one set recharged before the other runs down. Don't count on being able to fill up your 8Meg flashcard AND download pictures on the same set of batteries!

A second NECESSITY is the AC Adapter. Without this accessory, battery life becomes even more of a problem. This should be a standard feature with this camera.

We own a Toshiba and a Sony, and neither one of them consumes power like the Olympus.

68 of 68 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lovin' it!, December 10, 1999

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A. Anthony "Crispywafers" (Maryland, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Olympus C-2000 Zoom 2.1MP Digital Camera (Electronics)

The camera is postively amazing. The quality of the pictures are great, the controls are easy to pick-up (even for someone who is new to photography), and if you bring it to a party---the "oohs" and "ahhs" will still be echoing throughout the room hours after you leave. Two friends, after borrowing and playing with the camera, have since went out a bought their own (I wanted mine back!). The only grudge I have is not really against the camera itself, but the company. When you buy the camera...make sure you also buy a 32mb Smartmedia card (the 8mb card that comes with it is nothing), make sure it also *comes with* 4 NiMH rechargable batteries (the camera is supposed to come with these!), and buy a Floppy Path Adapter (though optional...makes downloading the images *a lot* quicker).

41 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent photos; some design oddness, November 21, 1999

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S. Atlas - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Olympus C-2000 Zoom 2.1MP Digital Camera (Electronics)

I bought the C2000 over the summer, and Olympus enclosed a mail-in certificate for free NiMH batteries and charger. The NiMH batteries largely fixed the battery problem (before, I had to carry a pile of spare alkakines). I'm not sure how Olympus's folks signed off on some strangeness in the mechanical design (wayward lens cap, oddly-placed strap attachment things, power switch / shutter button placement). Also, the Flashpath (floppy) adapter is a major pain to use. The PCMCIA adapter is simpler and works better. A PCMCIA reader for a desktop PC/MAC is cheap. An included case would have been nice. Olympus sells one for this camera, but no one ever has it in stock. I don't even know what it looks like.

Having said that, I'm very pleased with picture quality and ease of use. Resolution and color are excellent. The automatic mode tends to overexpose flash pictures taken in some situations (like across a dark room), but the overrides for shutter and aperature priority work well. You can also fine-tune the exposure, among other things, and still use the fully-auto mode.

Bottom line: an amazing piece of technology; takes excellent photos (for a digital camera); very good value for its capabilities.