I still hold onto my Olympus C-2100 UZ. The 10x zoom is crystal
clear, the image stabilization is the best I've experienced, and the
autofocus is fast and accurate. Sadly it's only 2.1 megapixels.

If this new Olympus is up to the same standards, it would be a very
nice non-SLR camera indeed.

Marc Hoffman
Kirkland, WA
tweeters at dartfrogmedia dot com

At 09:12 AM 1/25/2007, you wrote:

>Tweets,
>
>Some of you may be interested in this announcement. It's the first
>500mm digicam (18x optical zoom) and comes with image stabilization
>and a 15 fps burst rate (albeit at 1.2 megs). No price yet but
>seems very interesting for birders who might not want a DSLR but
>still get the reach.
>
>Rod Gilbert
>
><http://www.dpreview.com/news/0701/07012507olympusp550uz.asp>http://www.dpreview.com/news/0701/07012507olympusp550uz.asp
>