Olympus C-8080 Wide Zoom Review

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Olympus C-8080 Wide Zoom
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Steve B's Review of Olympus C-8080 Wide Zoom

7th Jul 2004

Overall Rating

5 stars
  • Value for money
    5 stars
  • Image Quality
    5 stars
  • Features
    5 stars
  • Time Digital Camera Owned
    1 - 4 Weeks
  • Battery Life
    4.5 stars
  • Ease of Use
    5 stars
Good Points

Wide angle
Incredible macro
Ease of use
battery life
logical menus
Fast startup time


Bad Points

Manual focus in macro is fiddly
Electronic viewfinder disappoints
Main manual is actually on the cd and needs to be printed off.


General Comments

I bought my Olympus C-8080WZ to replace a Nikon 995 3.34megapixel camera. I have only owned it a few weeks but the results are just stunning. I even won an award with only my 3rd photo taken with this camera (macro of a flower). The colour accuracy, sharpness and levels of this camera are superb. I have done a lot of reading up on ALL the 8meg compacts and several magazines pitch this at the top. I have tried 3 other makes of 8meg compacts and found this one to more resemble an SLR with good build quality.
The 140mm zoom sounds miserly but with 8meg on hand you can always crop in without losing detail. And you can always purchase a zoom attachment.
I intended to read the manual during an 8 hour flight (but the darn thing was on the cd). That said, it is pretty easy to fathom out from the logical menus.
In macro mode you really need to use manual focus for getting in very close and the rear monitor is essential for this.
The electronic viewfinder is no better/no worse than any of the compacts so I cannot mark it down for this.
Overall I rate this camera very highly and if anyone wishes to look at what it is capable of then please look at my portfolio below.
http://www.usefilm.com/member/steveb

Buy one, it will not disappoint !

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