I bought this camera a few years ago after doing weeks of homework. It was the best camera I could find at the time for the price... Let me just say it was one of the best purchases I've ever made. This camera has crossed half the states in the US, and a handful of countries in Europe and I've never been disapointed in a single shot. The zoom lets me take pictures of animals accross lakes and then later zoom in on the details. I have the most amazing pictures from going to watch the bald eagles in Illinois thanks to this zoom. If you are looking for a digita camera I'd strongly encourage you to purchase this one.

Simply the best and most fun camera to use....from Pro to amature....you won't be disappointed. I have owned mine for over 3 years now without any problems and paid over $900.00 for it new then. It is worth every dollar!

Great electronic LCD viewfinder!

Acts and feels like a true SLR 35mm, but takes GREAT...GREAT...Digital pictures.

Fast and easy adjustments from f-stop to speed, lighting, everything!

The best lens I have ever seen on a Digital Camera....has Sony beat hands down! The 10x is remarkable....I will never own another camera without 10x optical....ever!

I will use this camera till it dies, and I have owned Nikon SLR (FE, FE2, etc.) in the past....the ease of operation and output blows them away! Even at 2.1 Mp, the images are sharp and color is right-on!

If you can find one of these....buy it....you won't be sorry! It's worth 10 stars!!! I hope Olympus makes another just like it (same shape and not that square-instamatic-look)with higher MP in the future!

Excellent picture quality and level of control over the pictures you can take. 10X Optical Zoom is incredible for its time and is still hard to beat. The optics are remarkably distortion free at all focal lengths. 2MP CCD makes this a very fast camera, as a lot of time is not waste writing to the card while the photo opprtunities slip away. Great low light capabilities with slow shutter speed. This is a bargain to be had in the used camera market. There are other cameras that sound better on paper, but when it comes to putting pixels on a memory card, there is none that surpasses the versatility and fun of this camera.

I am about to replace my stolen C2100. It will be my third one that I have owned. This camera is a workhorse. Don't let the 2 megapixel rating scare you. Most of my highly acclaimed photos I have taken with this camera and my other Olympus cameras are down the list in ease, quality and zoom length. Buy this camera if you can. It will not disappoint. It is especially good for "personal" and candids which require stealth. The zoom will get you incredibly close and remains the best cropping tool for reaching the latent image from a distance.

I'm convinced that this is one of the best buys in digital photography- mine has been spectacular for over 5000 pictures in the past year. It isn't the best camera on the market, but for the money, it is really great. If you want to learn about photography basics, then it has a manual mode. If you want to point and shoot, it does that too. Long exposures over about 1.5 seconds aren't that great due to noise. Of course the zoom is fantastic, but don't forget to compare the image stabilizing. I've never been friendly with a camera that didn't have it, so I can't compare, but I do know that I can almost always get nice shots at a distance, even in somewhat low light.

The only negatives that I have found are heavy battery consumption and the old memory card.

The picture quality is terrific, and it is obvious that this is a camera designed for SLR enthusiasts- all kinds of control, or just set it all on auto and fire away.

The image stabilization makes the 10x zoom useful, and the video mode was an unexpected bonus.

If you have to have the next best thing, this is not it. If you love having top of the line N-1 technology, you'd be hard pressed to beat this camera for the money.

The Olympus C-2100 was my first digital camera, and boy was it fantastic. I eventually sold it and "upgraded" to a camera with higher megapixels because, as great as the C-2100 is, 2.1 megapixels is paltry these days. But even the newer cameras I've tried pale in comparison to the C-2100's ability to take pictures in low-light situations. I captured absolutely stunning photos of sunsets and extremely low-light scenes at night by the fireplace with no lights on. I've never even come close to getting pictures like that with my newer cameras. I'm actually thinking about buying a used C-2100 so I have that capability again. They're dirt cheap now compared to when they were introduced many years ago, so if you get a chance to buy one, I guarantee you will not be disappointed. It's a real shame that Olympus never followed up by releasing the same camera with higher megapixels, because I certainly would have bought it, and I'm sure a lot of other people would have as well. I'll never understand why this camera went out of production and why Olympus essentially walked away from a segment of the market that it completely dominated.

I now use an Oly E-500 dSLR. I have more money in filters and toys for my slr than the original C2100 cost me. And i'll admit there are times im still tempted to break out the c2100. This camera will do everything from ultra closeup macro's to extreme handheld zoom out of the box. Toss in a few filters et al and you have an entire system. The lens quality is just plain excellent and the image stabilisation makes it possible to shoot at max aperture with addons (i rigged a 2x video camera converter to it). With the rigged up 2x i was getting 1000mm. Handheld. My dslr wont do that. Period.

The 2 megapixels is a drawback but 2mp is plenty for a 4x6 and acceptable for 8x10's with a very good printer (I use the hp8750 and the canon ip6700d). If they had come out with a 5mp version of this within a year or two of my purchase id probably be using it instead of my slr. The camera is that good. But oly decided to put out a cheaper knockoff consumer camera next. You will not go wrong with this camera. The secret is in the lens and you simply arent going to find a fixed lens camera with a better lens period (ask a professonal photographer he'll tell you the lens is the whole ball game). I'll admit suprise at it still being priced at 150 for a 2mp camera. But thinking about it , it is a more capable camera at 2mp than most of the consumer p&s's are at 10mp.

It's going on 2008 and this Olympus 2100 is still going strong. It is not a camera that's been on the shelf waiting to be used. It's been in at least half of ths U.S. taking pictures the whole way from Disneyworld to the back woods of Maine. If this camera is an example of Olympus quality, I am waiting for the equivalent of this camera to come out today. I see lots of cameras out there but when you get down to it, this old camera does everything they do. If anybody can suggest it's equivalent, please add on to the messages on this page.

My Olympus C 2100 just arrived from an Ebay seller who sold it to me for only $135 in mint condition with five 64mb Smartmedia cards and a UV filter, nowadays it may seem like a lot of money for a 2MP camera even with it's 10X zoom and obsolete memory system but I love it's still futuristic design and it's "ahead of it's time" technology like an electronic viewfinder and image stablization,things we take for granted today in digital cameras. Would love to hear from other owners who bought the cam after 2005 and if they still love it. I'm sure it was worth it's $1000 price tag back in 2000.

Barry