But while you’ll appreciate the ability to shoot like a pro, you’ll love the fact that the C-3030 was designed with the consumer in mind. From its compact design to its comfortable, ergonomic grip and wide-view LCD screen, the C-3030 has all the convenient features you want in a filmless digital camera—like both USB and serial connectivity, Quicktime® movie recording mode with sound, new CR-3V (LB-01) long-life Lithium batteries, and more—all without the big, blocky size of many other advanced digital cameras.

Features and Benefits

• Ultra-high resolution imaging, with a 3.34 million pixel CCD and 2048 x 1536 pixel size images
• Powerful f2.8 3x zoom with continuous 2.5x digital zoom—all-glass 8-element aspherical Olympus lens is designed for professional-quality digital photography at any magnification
• 15 different image resolution capture modes—including five uncompressed TIFF modes and up to 191 seconds of Quicktime movie capture with sound
• Built-in USB connection and serial connection—for downloading flexibility
• The only camera in its class with a 32MB SDRAM buffer for rapid shooting at 3.3 fps burst mode up to 5 photos, and real-time shooting at 1 photo every second.
• Full creative control with black & white, sepia, black board and white board, for monochrome images
• Customizable, advanced controls:
  • User-selectable ISO settings (100/200/400)
  • Slow shutter speeds of up to 16 seconds in manual and 1/800 second to 1/2 second in auto
  • Aperture settings of F2.8-F11 through the entire zoom range in 1/3 step increments
  • AEB (Auto Exposure Bracketing) for an array of exposures (+/- 2 stops in 1/3 step increments with 3 or 5 step bracketing.)
  • "iESP" Autofocus or manual focus for any focal distance between 8” and infinity
• Improved user-friendly menus, controls, and buttons
• Improved battery power with the use of the CR-3v (LB-01) Lithium batteries
• Wide-View 1.8” TFT LCD with variety of review modes and 3x magnification Inspection Mode—for easier viewing from any angle, even in direct sunlight
• TTL connector for additional FL-40 external flash
• Includes one 16MB Olympus SmartMedia™ card with Panorama function—compatible up to 64MB cards
• Versatile built-in 6-mode intelligent Flash

Lens
3x Olympus 8-element f2.8-f-11 3x aspherical glass optical zoom lens with additional continuous 2.5x digital zoom—for the 35mm equivalence of 32-96mm zoom (240mm digital) and truly photographic results:

• Complete manual or fully automatic focus
• Macro capability, for shots as close as 8” away
• Fast f2.8 to f11 with aperture control in 1/3 stop increments is ideal for creative control

Flash System
The C-3030 Zoom features a built-in 6-mode for versatility and performance. The C-3030 is also compatible with the FL-40 external flash through its TTL sync connection.

• Flash automatically fires in low light or back-lit conditions
• Fill-in flash fires with every shot, reducing shadows and providing balanced illumination
• Switch the flash off when shooting where flash photography is prohibited, or not wanted
• Red-eye reducing flash lamp helps reduce red-eye reflection in portrait photography
• Slow syncro flash with first or second curtain flash for creative flash photography
• Slow synchronization flash with red-eye reduction

Software
The C-3030 Zoom comes with Olympus Camedia Master software for downloading images from the camera and basic image editing, and Adobe® PhotoDeluxe for more advanced image editing. All software supports both Windows (95/98/NT 4.0) and Power Macintosh (OS 7.6.1 and greater).

Using the imaging software that comes standard with the C-3030 Zoom, you can:

• Print, view, and email your photos to family and friends
• Create sweeping panoramas by “stitching together” individual photographs
• Crop, retouch, and manipulate photos on your computer
• Create cards, catalogs, calendars, screen savers, slide shows and more with simple on-screen instructions