Used Olympus Camedia C-3030 Zoom for Sale — From £27 | UsedLens.co.uk

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Olympus's flagship 3.3MP prosumer of 2000 — 32-96mm equiv f/2.8 zoom, P/A/S/M, SmartMedia, four AA cells

The Olympus Camedia C-3030 Zoom, announced on 27 January 2000, was the flagship 3-megapixel model of Olympus's C-series prosumer compacts, reviewed by the photographic press that spring to considerable approval. It sat above the later, cheaper C-3000 Zoom, which shared its sensor and lens but trimmed the specification.

Its 3.34-megapixel 1/1.8in CCD produces images up to 2048x1536 pixels through an aspherical glass 3x zoom equivalent to 32-96mm, with apertures from f/2.8 to f/11. Exposure options cover program, aperture-priority, shutter-priority and full manual, plus manual focus, and a five-mode built-in flash. Framing is by optical finder or 1.8in LCD, storage is SmartMedia (a 16MB card was bundled), connectivity is USB, QuickTime movie recording is included, and power comes from four AA cells — NiMH recommended — in a 380g body.

The C-3030 was a serious tool in 2000 and remains one of the more capable early digicams: real manual control, a bright wide end and solid ergonomics. Today it attracts early-digital collectors and shooters chasing the CCD rendering of the era, who should accept slow buffer writes and modest burst ability as period features.

Confirm a working SmartMedia card accompanies the camera — the format is discontinued, capped at 128MB and increasingly failure-prone — and that the camera reads and writes it. The AA supply is easy to modernise with NiMH cells, but check the contacts for leak corrosion, verify the flash charges, the mode dial registers each position, and the quarter-century-old LCD is free of bleed.

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