Olympus's 2000 entry digicam — 1.3MP CCD, 3x optical zoom, SmartMedia, sold as D-460 Zoom in the US
The Camedia C-960 Zoom was announced by Olympus in January 2000 as an affordable family digital compact, sold in North America as the D-460 Zoom. It followed the C-920/D-450 in Olympus's entry zoom digicam line.
It captures 1.3-megapixel images at up to 1280x960 on a small CCD, through a 3x optical zoom supplemented by 2x digital zoom. Autofocus is a single-point contrast-detection system, ISO spans roughly 125-500, and there is a six-mode flash with red-eye reduction. Composition uses an optical viewfinder or the fixed 1.8in, 61,000-dot LCD; storage is SmartMedia and power four AA batteries.
As a shooter it is strictly a snapshot tool, but its dinky output and CCD rendering appeal to the retro-digicam crowd, and AA power plus simple controls make it an easy first vintage digital.
Condition checks centre on the obsolete SmartMedia format — a bundled working card matters, as new cards are unobtainable. Inspect the sliding lens cover or barrel action, check old alkaline cells have not corroded the battery bay, and confirm the LCD and flash still function after two decades.