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Subject: [OM] Re: Olympus C-5000
From: Richard Lovison <sylv4700@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 10:51:13 -0800 (PST)
Thanks Joel.  My wife used the OM-1 and a Mamiya C220 for portraits a
very long time ago though now she is content to use a simple instamatic
type film camera.  I'll check out the Stylus line as well.

Richard

--- Joel Wilcox <jowilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Maybe balance the Wrotniak review with dpreview too.
> 
> I had a C-5060WZ for two months of serious shooting.  It was my first
> 
> digital camera and I ultimately couldn't live with the optical VF but
> I so 
> admired that camera that I kept it for my son, who would be caught
> dead 
> looking through the viewfinder anyway.  He loves the LCD.  It's so 
> versatile that you can use it as a waist-level finder and even see
> yourself 
> in self-portraits in it.
> 
> But I don't think of it as a good "wife's first digital camera." 
> What sort 
> of camera does she now use?  I would get her something for which the 
> transition is a few short steps.
> 
> In the price range, the Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ3 looks amazing for the
> 
> $$$:  12x optical zoom with stabilization.  Have to have the
> fortitude to 
> accept 3.1MP as up to snuff though.  We all know it is
> intellectually, 
> especially for those 4x6's, but ...
> 
> Again, don't know if the Lumix is a good first camera.  My wife is
> very 
> happy with a Digital Stylus 4100.



                
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