The camera is good. Its jpeg file has all information you took shot (every bit!!!). But you are unable to print any of them, including date and time, when you send for printing. You have to manually edit jpeg file to add basic things such as date and time. A very pitty fact for such good camera.

I bought the C4040 a few months back and love the camera. The bright lens allows great low light shots. With the noise reduction, the low light photos are great. The menu is somewhat complex or layered and there are not too many short cuts like some of the Canons have. The images are very easy to down load, infact it's acts as a removable drive, so you can just drag images. The C5050 corrected this, but the price is much higher. The Negative is also the printed manual is basically useless. You have to put in the CD for the full manual. The camera is not a compact, so I ended to getting a S200 Elph for places where I wanted a super-compact. The lens cap design is very poor. Infact I added a tiffen filter tube to protect the lens when it powers on.

Olympus has a winner on their hands (or in my hands). This camera takes crystal clear pictures in auto mode. Perfect for the intermediate digital photographer. Everything can be adjusted (with menus) and shots can be taken as close as 3 inches. For me, this was a great second camera on my journey to Digital SLR Heaven.

I bought this camera about a year ago, after reading the good reviews here at Amazon.com. I was nervous buying it sight-unseen, but I have not been disappointed. This camera is awesome. I have used a Minolta SLR (with a heavy bag full of lenses and accessories) for 20 years, but I was taking better, sharper photos with this camera within weeks.

The other reviews tell you much about this camera, so I won't repeat all that. I mainly want to add my additional "thumbs up" to the list of reviews.

This camera has a lot of features that deserve to be learned. So plan to spend some time with it to get the most out of it. A lot of the detailed documentation only comes on the CD ROM included with the camera, by the way. The camera takes superb photos in automatic mode, but knowing all of its features makes it even more capable, and more fun to use. This is not the camera for someone who only wants to point and click. But if you're considering spending this much, you probably already know that.

I have never taken so many beautiful photos before this camera. I print the best on 8 x 10 glossy paper and they are extremely sharp and colorful.

This is my first digicam after using Nikon 35mm of various vintages over time. At current prices ($550 or so) the 4040 is
a great value among 4MP cameras for all the reasons cited in the accompanying reviews. The negatives are covered as well but I wouldn't be deterred unless I did a lot of indoor flash photography and didn't want to spring for accessory flashes (I don't know how other comparable cameras perform in these conditions.)

Good digital cameras, this one included, are great fun to use
and 35mm users should definitely try them. It's satisfying (and
economical) to get rid of your failed efforts without having to pay to print them (that always galled me.)The 4040 makes crisp photos and even if you use a Leica rangefinder for your final shots, using a good camera like this one for experimentation and set up will save you a lot of lab fees.

For those who like 11 X 14 prints and larger and don't want to shoot every picture in uncompressed tiff mode for storage reasons, consider the Canon G2 in the same price range as the 4040. It offers RAW mode which takes up much less space than tiff while maintaining high resolution. The G2 also has a tiltable LCD for when you don't want to contort yourself to see the LCD at an awkward angle. Other than that, the 4040 is among
best in class. Its 1.8 lens is still brightest of the 4MP group with the G2 close behind at 2.0.

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