Olympus C-770 Ultra Zoom Review

Overall Rating

128 meg card, the pictures it takes are very good for a digital camera, and the diopter adjustment on the viewfinder is very handy if you have poor eyesight, Mpeg 4 movie capture, metal body 10/14X.
Optical zoom.

None BAD, Super Macro mode is to powerfull and pictures out of focus around the edges. The lens touches down because of its weight when put the camera down, `I put a nice black rubber band around the fixed part to save damage`. Should have used AA batters like early C700 series cameras. Lots of Menus to remember. No base station available for downloading and charging.

Olympus Camedia C770 UZ. This is not the camera I was going to buy when I went out, the camera I was going to get was the Olympus C765.UZ but the camera was not available as it had only just been launched. After shopping around trying to get a good price from different stores and getting offered the more expensive C770 as no one had the C765 for another 4 to 6 weeks, I though would check the spec out for both cameras. I wanted the 10X optical zoom and 4 million pixels and both cameras have so how could I justify the extra cost, ( At the time the best price was, C765 £339, C770 £400 ),
well this is how I ended up with the C770.

2.1 shots per second for up to 2 frames in HQ High Speed Mode: ......C765.
2.1 shots per second for up to 5 frames in HQ High Speed Mode: ......C770.
1.6 shots per second for up to 24 frames in HQ Normal Speed: .........C770.
(This is better for me as I will use the camera for motor sport)
The C770 comes with a XD 128 meg memory card, the C765 has only a XD 16 meg card, and as you can read in the C765 reviews every one buys a bigger card as 16 meg is not much good, so I have saved money there.

128 Meg card = 2,288 x 1,712 HQ: 130 Shots.
16 Meg card = 2,288 x 1,712 HQ: 16 Shots.

The C770 also has Mpeg 4 Movie capture.

With a 128 MB XD-picture Card this is: 136 sec. at 15 fps in Motion JEPG with a resolution of
640 x 480 pixels ........................C765.

With a 128MB XD-Picture Card this is: 386 sec. at 30FPS in MPEG4 with a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels ..................................C770.
(The picture is excellent, better than my Video camera, but needs a external mike as the zoom motor sound like it's a diesel and not electric when zooming in and out).

There some other differences C765 is Silver, C770 is Black in colour.
The C770 goes to 14x Optical zoom (with a resolution of 1600 x 1200). Better again.
The C770 has a remote controller (Only in some standard packages so check the side of the box)

So more zoom, bigger XD card, better video, remote control, and did not want to wait 4/6 weeks for the C765 to turn up and then spend £55`ish on a 128 meg card.
Just like the C765, the pictures it takes are very good for a digital camera, and the diopter adjustment on the viewfinder is very handy if you have poor eyesight like me.