I searched all over the Web, and in stores before I bought my Olympus C3000Z. I can tell you from experience you can look everywhere, but for a great price from a reliable source, just stop here and buy from Amazon. I am a professional photographer who wanted a digital camera for last minute headshots, web use, and to become more knowledgeable about digital photography. I knew that Olympus made excellent digital cameras, so I narrowed my search on their brand. I also knew I wanted 3.3 Megapixles.
I have hade mine for a about a month now, and I'm very pleased. Through a combination of an Olympus accesory cable ( the FLCB04 ) and some wiring of my own ( I'm a techie at heart ) I have used my C3000 with my studio strobes, and also a Nikon SB series flash, with excellent results. I love the instant feedback, and not worrying about how much film I'm using. I know I have only scratched the surface of this cameras capabilities. I do suggest if you buy one that you buy the biggest Smartmedia card you can afford, I plan on getting a 128MB, and that you also buy 2 sets of NIMH batteries and a charger. This camera like all digital cameras will just chew through normal alkeline cells if you use the LCD display for any length of time. When I went to the Photo East Show in NYC this past November, the Olympus rep told me that this camera would not Sync with Studio flash. Well I can tell you Yes it does. I will warn you, you need to use a flash with a low sync voltage or use a Radio slave to protect the sync circuits in the camera, but it does work. For me it has been like discovering Photography all over again. You can do things you just can't do with a normal film camera such as change the speed ( ISO ) for each frame if you want to. Switch on the fly from color, to Sepia, to B&W, and best of all, see right then and there if you got the shot you were after. My only complaints are 1) the shutter lag that is part of all sub $2000 digital cameras, and the time it take to write the file to the card if you shoot in Hi-Res TIFF format. But this is a (...) camera, next year I'll go for the E20. In closing for the amount of money I spent, I have no regrets.
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Better than the Digital Rebel or D70
This was my first digital camera and lucky me! The pictures are absolutely crystal clear! I bought mine "refurbished" and I still haven't had any problems with it and I've had it for 3 years now. The pictures taken in daylight are absolutely astonishing, I'm telling you. I think the only thing I regret is that it doesn't have a manual focus, but the autofocus is just so good, I really hardly ever miss it.I took a photography class and used the Canon Digital Rebel as well as the Nikon D70 for shots for the class as well as this camera, and honest to god, every time I used my own camera people would ask "which camera did you use for that?!" they were so impressed when I'd tell them it was my own 3.2 megapixel one instead of the hearty 8mp thing. I'm sure if you're a professional photographer you might need all the doodads that the other cameras offer, but for me, the amateur, this is perfect.Check out my pictures in the gallery!
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