Steves Digicams have reviewed the affordable 5 megapixel Olympus CAMEDIA C-5000 Zoom, which relaces the older 4 megapixel C-4000 Zoom model.

“Shooting performance is a bit below average. Power-on to first shot captured measured an agonizingly-slow 13 seconds when equipped with a 512MB Olympus xD memory card; this shrunk to a more reasonable 6 seconds when using the supplied 32MB xD card. Because the C-5000 produces JPG files of about 1.5 megabytes at its highest quality setting, you’ll want to have a sizable xD card installed, but you’ll pay a price in startup time in proportion to its capacity. As a result, this is not the best camera to capture unposed, impromptu moments.”

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