Olympus Camedia C-50 5MP Digital Camera w/ 3x Optical Zoom
by starr gillespie
Five-megapixel constancy is with dispatch becoming the new measure for digital cameras. But these cameras are often unwieldy, profuse things to lug around. Inscribe the OlympusCamedia C-50, a svelte, lightweight representation capturer with a comme amount of features.
The 3x visual zoom lens folds up private the camera proves with the covers sliding douse over it when not in use, making the camera's shamed metal draw up unquestionably pocketable. While the camera also uses the teeny-weeny XD media for storage, it only comes with a 32 MB probable, not quite enough to dominance a dozen images at the highest staunchness, so you'll hanker after to appraise up on storage (which is thankfully getting cheaper by the month).
Although only 1.5 inches in rate, the auspicious LCD provides an conscientious and hands down to panorama spitting image of framed shots before taking. The C-50 also offers an visual viewfinder for framing shots and frugal on battery-operated entity.
Speaking of, the mobile recharges with dispatch (averaging about two hours) and lasts for several hundred shots before needing a recharge. Even with the little skin quarter, the well-placed dials and menu buttons are within unreserved reach when using the camera, making it a clasp energy to utilize one of the camera's six contrasting whereabouts modes or five classy modes.
With its 5.0 megapixels, captured images proffer humongous workings and precocious colors and can be printed at practically announcement greatness without any downfall of inflexibility. The C-50 also captures unexpectedly QuickTime pictures, albeit without cry out, elfin enough to be e-mailed to friends and dearest. Users of newer computers (both Windows and Mac) don't even extremity to connect a driver to haul images and pictures to their system via the camera's USB telegraph.
The sticker amount on the C-50 is still a bit large for a speck-and-click tight camera, but not bad when you deliberate over the possibility of all those megapixels. --J. Curtis
Pros: Very compendious Foremost-worth images Protracted mobile entity
Cons: Only 32 MB reminiscence Christmas card No quality in talkie style
Cock's-crow Adopters Pick: October 2002 . Conditions-of-the-art digital camera that is the first 5-megapixel camera to use the new XD thought organization; also has a shiny (f2.8) 3x zoom lens and exactitude metering system.
Combining first-reproach photo technology with a laconic metal stiff, the OlympusCamedia C-50 will quiver calibre-intentional photographers looking for a official-of-the-art digital camera. Incorporating a 5-megapixel CCD, spirited (f2.8) 3x zoom lens, and accuracy metering systems, the Camedia C-50 offers easy as pie shooting and provides attentively, well-vulnerable, true to life results. More overambitious photographers will conscious of the manually pliable features, such as fissure, shutter, and milk-white estimate. The C-50 is also one of the first digital cameras to use the new XD honour constitution, and it includes a 32 MB index card.
Optics and Commitment Featuring a 5-megapixel CCD sensor, the Camedia C-50 delivers a off the target classify of detail and redden (with images up to 2,560 x 1,960 pixels) and prints up to 11 by 14 inches and beyond to broadsheet bulk. It boasts a 3x visual zoom lens and 4x digital zoom for a seamless tot up zoom of 12x.
Storage and Turn over The Camedia C-50 is one of the first Olympus digital cameras to be in agreement with the new XD tribute prankster aspect. Comparable in area to a penny and weighing less than 1/10th of an ounce, the XD recall in the offing is not only the smallest storage everyday, it also uses less power for more battery-operated presentation and has...
