5050 has cast magnesium body.....VERY cool!
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Garth Wood" <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 7:07 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Looking at digital
> At 05:30 PM 11/28/2002 -0400, Wayne Culberson wrote:
> >I was at a camera store this afternoon where I could look at some of the
> >current digital offerings. The salesman was leaning toward the N*kon
Coolp*x
> >4500, but the one that got my attention was the Olympus C5050. Does
anyone
> >here have one of these, or have experience with one, that could give a
few
> >coments good or bad?
>
>
> Can't comment on the C5050, but when I was travelling New Mexico, my buddy
had a Nikon Coolpix 5700, and the damn thing wouldn't autofocus. Kept
hunting for the target, causing much missing of shots and cursing of Nikon.
If the Coolpix 4500 has similar internal guts, I'd stay away from it. My
buddy's problems with the 5700 has caused me to swear off even thinking
about buying a Coolpix for the foreseeable future.
>
> Garth
>
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