PhotographyBLOG Review: Olympus C-8080 Wide Zoom

Mark Goldstein | PhotographyBLOG | May 24, 2004 | 7 Comments

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

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#1 Peter Baranowski

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

3:01 pm - Friday, June 11, 2004

#2 Roman Maruska

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

6:34 pm - Saturday, June 19, 2004

#3 Mark Goldstein

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

10:24 am - Sunday, June 20, 2004

#4 Alper

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.

1:26 pm - Tuesday, October 12, 2004

#5 John Hooper

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

10:24 am - Thursday, February 17, 2005

#6 alessandra

it's the best photocamera i ever had..

9:04 am - Saturday, August 20, 2005

#7 Michael Smith

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

6:01 pm - Tuesday, September 20, 2005

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