Some pics and a review

Hi all, I have just finished a big job so I treated myself to my first decent camera and I'm really enjoying it. Its an Olympus C 5050 zoom digital camera. I read the reviews and the Olympus was always up there so I bought it.

I don't know my speed settings from my focal points but with the extra 500meg memory card (I just knew I had to have that) I was taking hundreds of pics at different settings and instantly comparing them on the built in display. And then comparing again later that evening on my computer.

Too easy or what. I haven't completely explored this camera yet, I've only had it a week. I'm really taken with the macro features.

At 5 megapixels the quality is good for printing up to A4 at 300dpi

The only feature that limits this camera is it only has a 3x zoom. But I'm not a bird watcher and for me the fantastic image quality more than makes up for it.

The menu system is a piece of cake and I felt comfortable with it after only 10mins.

Low lighting shots come out really nice. I've hardly used the flash.

I've said enough..... heres a few of my fav pictures I have taken so far. I've spent a day on them in photoshop except for the bug images.

http://www.oxign.com.au/examples/photos/

pic1 is a new stainless steel blender
pic2 is the same blender but I used layers and colours to fool around.
pic3 is my nephew Jake
pic4 is a close up of a tv grill (inversed of course!)
pic5 and 6 is a bug

so crisp I **** my self

oh crap! Gotta get that camera!

Crisp! Is that good or bad? I certainly softened the first images. I'm not a photographer though I've spent many years using the almighty Photoshop. I suppose this is a big advertisement to those folk who have an eye for colour and are not blinded by the science of photography. With a digital camera its so easy to take a dozen images using a dozen different settings of the same scene and pick the best one. Professional photographers using film beware!!!!

crisp is good. That is one awesome digital camera.

well its not an SLR digital camera as those cost a small fortune but its probably the next best thing. I normally always buy Sony and they do have a camera to match the Olympus but I compared the image quality and the Olympus comes out top everytime. Still, horses for courses - check those reviews before you buy!

Originally posted by Michaelp
so crisp I **** my self

Hell yeah they are crisp!! Nice WORK!!!

quite nice almost bought an olympus my self..

the sony dc-f17 [i may have the model wrong] is pretty nice.. you can do lots of analog stuff. leave your shutter open for up to 8seconds.. and it takes differente lens too.
that bug is pretty cool..and crisp.

If you are talking about the sony f717 you are wrong, it dioes not change lenses. Most digital camera with manual will let you use an 8seconds shutter speed.

Nice bug macros.