Olympus C-700 Ultra Zoom Review

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Olympus C-700 Ultra Zoom
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Stuart Hillston.'s Review of Olympus C-700 Ultra Zoom

5th Sep 2001

Overall Rating

4.5 stars
  • Value for money
    4 stars
  • Ease of Use
    4 stars
  • Image Quality
    5 stars
  • Features
    4.5 stars
Good Points

Good image quality, focus and manual override options, movie recording, battery life and especially the 10x zoom - superb for framing your shots


Bad Points

Suspect lens assembly - seems a little loose


General Comments

After my old Olympus C-900Z went on the fritz after 3 years (had a hard impact in the car), I couldn't decide between a high-res or high zoom digital camera. I settled for the Olympus C-700Z and have no regrets. Much easier to use, loads of features - particular the manual override for aperture etc. The USB connection needs a little preparation before uploading. The supplied software is just OK - I've seen better (Kodak springs to mind). Some of the software doesn't seem to support the USB connect at all - although the main album software does.

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Members' Comments onStuart Hillston.'s Review

  • Don. on 24th Jan 2002

    Recently purchased C-700Z. Decided on 10X zoom with 2 meg res rather than 3 meq with 3x zoom. Compares well with C3000 series.
    Your comments on the manual override are exciting to me, because I want to occasionally do this also. How do I find how to use the manual overide? Can find no help from the pdf manual that came with the camers. Thanks for the review, and ?? any help.
    DK (farstarz@prodigy.net)