OLympus camedia C-50 Zoom रेविएव

The OLympus camedia C-50 Zoom is an ultra-compact camera that fits easily in your pocket or purse. Now you can carry the power of a fully-featured 5-megapixel digital camera wherever you go, no more excuses for not having it when needed. The C-50 is even slimmer and has an all-metal body for even greater durability. The C-50 Zoom builds on everything that Olympus has perfected in previous compact digicams and offers the user a choice of image sizes from 640x480 for web use all the way up to 2560x1920 for making photo-quality prints up to 13 x 19" and beyond!

Olympus C-50Z Zoom has a good bundle. Inside the box, you'll find:

• The 5.0 effective Mpixel C-50 Zoom camera


• 32MB xD Picture Card


• LI-10B lithium ion battery w/charger


• Remote control


• Wrist strap


• USB cable


• Video cable


• CD-ROM featuring Olympus Camedia Master software and drivers


• Basic manual (printed, 39 pages), fold-out Quick Start guide, plus full manual on CD-ROM

There is a 32MB xD Picture Card in the box. It's enough to start with, but you'll want a larger card right away, as those 5 million pixel images take up a lot of space. xD cards are the smallest memory cards out there, and theoretically offer some of the best performance as well. Unfortunately, as of this writing, xD cards aren't any larger than 128MB.

The C-50 zoom is Olympus' first digicam to use a proprietary battery, which isn't surprising considering the size of the camera. I'm not a huge fan of such batteries, but they are unavoidable with cameras this small. The Olympus LI-10B has 4.0 Watt/hours of power.The battery is the same power as casio np-20 battery.

In addition to the still image capture the C-50 Zoom also records 320x240 and 160x120 QuickTime movie modes at 15fps without sound. The length of movie clips is limited to 33 seconds in HQ and 148 seconds in SQ quality. The movie quality indoor is quite good but outdoors you need to watch out for lighting "hot spots" like sun glints off of reflective objects which create nasty top-to-bottom of frame purple streaks. You also have to be careful to keep the sun behind you as the lens goes to full wide angle when you activate movie mode. You can't use the optical zoom but you can enable the digital zoom from the menu.

Olympus c-50 detail:

Combining first-rate photo technology with a compact metal body, C-50ZOOM will thrill the design enthusiasts as well as quality-conscious photographers looking for a state-of-the-art digital camera. Incorporating a five-megapixel CCD, bright (f2.8) 3x zoom lens and precision metering systems, it allows effortless shooting and provides sharp, well-exposed, life-like results. More ambitious photographers will appreciate the creative freedom enabled by the manually adjustable features, such as aperture, shutter and white balance. Finally, this model uses the new digital image storage standard xD-Picture card and li-10b lithium ion rechargeable battery.