PhotographyBLOG Review: Olympus C-8080 Wide Zoom

First announced at the PMA photography trade show in February, the Olympus Camedia C-8080 Wide Zoom is one of a new breed of 8-megapixel digital cameras. It also offers a fast and wide f/2.4-3.5, 28-140mm integrated lens in a tough magnesium body, complete with a tilting LCD monitor and a host of photographic options that make it most suitable for the advanced amateur or professional photographer. So is the C-8080 Wide Zoom a better option than a DSLR like the Canon EOS 300D or Nikon D70? And are 8 megapixels really necessary? Read on to find out.

Website: Olympus C-8080 Wide Zoom Review

Published: Monday, May 24, 2004

Reader Comments

1. Thanks for a very detailed review if the Olympus C8080 camera. I would like to know what types of storage is safe to use with this camera. There are sizes of up to 8GB on Compact Flash cards as well as hyperspeeds of up to 80x (or 12mb/sec). Is this camera going to handle such speeds and card capacities, or there are limits? If possible please advice me on this subject. I tried to communicate same qquestions to Olympus, but so far there's not reply. Thank you kindly.
   Peter

   Peter Baranowski at 03:01pm on Friday, June 11, 2004

2. Hello friends!
   I would like to know if the ring on objective is a ring for manual focusing! If not , which way is than the manual focusing??? I can´t to find this information in any manual!
   Thank you for answer ! After all reviews I´ve red must it be very good machine !
   Roman
   

   Roman Maruska at 06:34pm on Saturday, June 19, 2004

3. No, the ring on the lens does not control manual focusing I'm afraid.

   Mark Goldstein at 10:24am on Sunday, June 20, 2004

4. A major flaw of the design of this camera is "it can not focus manually to infinity" It is ok by AF but not motorised MF. This is a problem in many C8080 cameras. A 800$ camera can't be so defective in design. Thank you.

   Alper at 01:26pm on Tuesday, October 12, 2004

5. Can you advise on image quality of the: WCON-08D &
   TCON-14D?

   John Hooper at 10:24am on Thursday, February 17, 2005

6. it's the best photocamera i ever had..

   alessandra at 09:04am on Saturday, August 20, 2005

7. Excellent review! I have heard a lot of good things about this camera. However, I do not understand why Olympus America has discontinued it. See http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/cpg_archived_product_details.asp?fl=2&id=961

   Michael Smith at 06:01pm on Tuesday, September 20, 2005