Steve of Steve's Digicams reviewed it, and liked it a lot, having the following to say: "I give the ProPower battery pack a rating of 5 (out of a possible 5) digicams! It's a small, well-built, external battery pack that gives you plenty of picture taking power, even for today's multi-megapixel power guzzlers. The idea is to carry it clipped to your waist, with a slim power cable plugging into the camera's auxiliary power jack. BIG Battery Pack! - We received an email on this yesterday, but it didn't quite make it into that day's news update: Unity Digital is offering a high-capacity NiMH battery pack, with about twice the capacity of the highest-capacity NiMH AA cells (2450 mAh). We look forward to the possibility of it's becoming available in the US.) (Overall, this looks like an excellent compact 2 megapixel digicam though, and it appears that it will have a (Japanese) street price near $570 US. HeĪlso had some complaints about overly-small pushbuttons on the camera body. He objected rather strongly though, to the user interface, which requires users to enter the LCD menu system to control such common functions as macro shooting mode and flash modes. PC Watch's pro-photographer reviewer Yamada appeared to like the color more than the prior (and excellent) C-2000 Zoom, and also found the C-21's automatic ISO-switching to be very handy for shooting under variable lighting conditions. One point we noticed in the data sheet for the unit, but neglected to report on in our previous coverage, is that the camera uses white-light LEDs for the backlight on the LCD screen, apparently reducing power consumption. More info on the Olympus C-21! - This may well be a case of Dave adopting a jaundiced viewpoint simply because he's too busy to get into a full translation from the Japanese, but the information in PC-Watch's updated piece on the new Olympus C-21 (announced as to be available in Japan only, at this point) holds little new data.
June 30 - Oly C-21 update on PC-Watch, BIG battery pack, ClubPhoto in the news, and more. NEWS! - Digital Cameras, Digital Imaging, Digital Photography, Digital Scanners
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