Olympus C-5000 5MP Digital Camera w/ 3x Optical Zoom

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• Product Dimensions: 1.8 x 4.1 x 2.9 inches ; 8.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000CEJI0
• Item model number: 225415
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #6,187 in Camera & Photo (See Bestsellers in Camera & Photo)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 4, 2003

Product Description

From the Manufacturer
Locate great picture opportunities with an advanced compact camera that makes it simple to find them. Use customizable and automatic features. Add on lenses or filters. Connect an external flash to the dedicated hot shoe. Get up close and personal with Super Macro mode. And know your efforts will be rewarded with vibrant, realistic results from a 5-megapixel CCD that's matched to an Olympus 3x zoom lens.

Discover the ultimate camera in terms of flexibility and ease of use thanks to the following package contents: CAMEDIA® C-5000 Zoom; 32MB xD-Picture CardTM; Li-10B Li-Ion rechargeable battery and charger; USB cable; Video Cable; Carrying strap; Lens cap; RM-2 Wireless Remote Control; QuickStart Guide and Printed Basic Manual; Limited Warranty Card; CD-ROM (CAMEDIA Master and User Reference Manual).

5 Megapixel CCD
Matched to Olympus® optics designed specifically for digital photography to capture eye-catching images.

Dedicated Hot Shoe
Add an external flash like our FL-20 for just the right amount of illumination.

Advanced Shooting Modes
With 6 Scene Program modes plus a customizable "My Mode," aperture priority, shutter priority and full manual control, there's no picture-taking situation the C-5000 isn't prepared for.

Features

• 5.0 megapixel CCD
• 3x optical/12x total seamless zoom
• Optics designed for digital photography
• Can add on lenses (wide angle and telephoto) and filters
• External hot shoe for more flash options
• New compact design is almost 20% smaller than C-4000 Zoom
• Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority and full Manual control
• 6 Preset Creative Scene modes
• Customizable "My Mode" setting
• Super Macro focus (1")
• Built-in flash with 7 different flash modes to choose from: Auto for low and backlight; Red-eye reduction; Fill-in (Forced on); Slow Shutter Synchronized (first curtain); Slow Shutter Synchronized (first curtain with red-eye reduction); Slow Shutter Synchronized (second curtain; Off (built-in or external)
• Record over 2 minutes of video in QuickTime® Movie mode
• 1.8" LCD screen
• Auto-Connect USB
• Exclusive TruePicTM technology creates truer color, contrast and gradation for enhanced image quality
• Noise Reduction
• 32MB xD-Picture Card included (C-5000 Zoom compatible up to 512MB)
• Included rechargeable Li-10B Li-Ion battery and charger
• Included RM-2 Wireless Remote Control

Product Description
If you've had enough of your artistic ideas being limited by your old camera, take a look at the five megapixel C-5000ZOOM. Whether you want to capture the textures and tones in city scenes, moody portraits or the setting sun dancing over a bay, this camera always rises to the challenge. Full manual control is complemented by precision metering systems and automatic options for those times when you have to shoot fast to get the shot. And if you need more light, that can easily be arranged. This compact model features a hot shoe connection for an external flash.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

52 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for outdoor shots, poor indoor focusing, November 23, 2003

By	Robert P. Robinson "bobshell5" (Tewksbury, MA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This would be the perfect camera for most, if only it had a focus assist light. Noise if very high for indoor shots, epecially if you leave it on auto. This is a camera that requires you know alot about iso, focusing methods (such as spot focusing) and setting the contrast (this camera uses a contrast focusing system). The less light you have, the longer it takes to focus. Shutter lag is excellent for daytime, outdoor shots, and much slower with low to moderate light. Due to Olympus using a contract TTL system, adjusting the contrast to -1 really helps, as well as setting the metering to spot. Also setting the sharpness to -1 helps with noise. A flash is a must for indoor shots, provided you can get the camera to focus lock. A bigger xD card is a must...The 5060 is a much better camera, but costs $...more.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific little camera, May 5, 2004

By	thevicarofdibley (Australia) - See all my reviews

The picture quality of this camera is something to behold. I read of people saying the camera gives noisy pictures and all but they're probably using their camera with the settings at default. Set the sharpness to -2 and the aliasing and sharpening artifacts just disappear! You end up with rich and highly detailed pictures worthy of the 5MP tag. The colour that this camera gives is simply beautiful.

I have found the FL-20 flash to be a very good match as well. This small unit balances nicely with this camera and lends a lot more oomph to strobe lighting needs.

Yes, it's not a perfect camera: no low light focus beam (though the camera still focuses quite well in lowish light situations - you can also just switch to manual focus if you need and just guesstimate distance to subject); no histogram (I don't use it much anyway) and no sound with movies. But the goodies especially the picture quality outweighs the bads: Li-ion battery (very good battery life), good usable ISO range from 50, 80 ,160 (320 is as expectedly noisy), lightweight and small size, good manual exposure range (A/S), etc.

If you're after very high picture quality, pictures that have great detail (without that almost over smooth "Canon look") and colour, this is a terrific option for the money.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Camera, April 16, 2004

By A Customer

This is a great camera with a lot of features at a very reasonable price. The camera is very easy to use, has great battery life (I took 75 pictures over a week w/ flash on one charge), and produces excellent pictures. I don't know what the other reviewer is talking about with the colors. Maybe they should learn how to operate the camera or get their vision checked? The color looks perfect...better than a high quality film camera. The software that comes with the camera is adequate. My only concern before buying the c-5000 was with the xD memory format, which I had never used before. It has worked better than I had hoped. The camera writes to the card very quickly and the camera is able to hold over 200 images at the highest resolution on the extra 256mb card I purchased. Overall a great buy.