Olympus's 2002 4MP Camedia compact — 32-96mm equivalent 3x zoom, manual controls, SmartMedia storage
The C-4000 Zoom, announced in June 2002, was a 4-megapixel model in Olympus's Camedia C-series of enthusiast compacts, slotting below the pricier C-4040 while keeping much of the same photographic control set.
It uses a 4-megapixel CCD producing images up to 2288x1712, behind an aspherical glass 3x zoom of 6.5-19.5mm (32-96mm equivalent) with apertures from f/2.8 to f/11. Shutter speeds run from 16 seconds to 1/1000, ISO covers 100-400, and six scene programs sit alongside adjustable aperture, shutter and white balance. Framing is via optical viewfinder or 1.8in LCD, storage is SmartMedia (16MB card supplied new).
It suits students and collectors wanting an affordable early-2000s CCD compact with real manual override; the slightly wide 32mm end is handy indoors, though the small LCD and slow burst shooting date it.
When buying used, factor in the discontinued SmartMedia format — cards and readers take effort to find, so complete kits are worth more. Check for stuck lens barrels, LCD bleed, corroded AA contacts, and run a test card through a full write-read cycle before relying on it.