Introduction
While Olympus is well known for its quality line of film and digital cameras, less is known about their other products. One that I will be looking at today is the DM-20. It’s billed mainly as a digital voice recorder, but triples it’s functionality by incorporating a music player and USB data storage device into its duties. It’s sleek, portable, versatile and comes equipped with enough accessories to justify the $299 SRP. The one location I was able to find it online, DM-20 (click here), listed it for $269. If you were to look for a voice recorder, MP3/WMA player and USB storage separately you can count on spending three times as much for similar quality devices. Read more…

Introduction
Those of you familiar with Olympus already know the high quality with which their imaging products are manufactured. For those still living under a rock, allow me to elucidate. Olympus began life as Takachiho Seisakusho, a Japanese company started in 1919 to produce, what else, Japan’s first microscope. Yes, that’s right, microscope. It’s not as big a stretch as you would think, moving from microscopes to digital cameras. In fact, it’s more of a natural evolution. Olympus still maintains a large presence in medical imaging and technology. Their product catalog ranges from cameras and printers to chemistry immuno systems and blood bank systems. Chances are if you’ve ever heard the term aliquotting, you’ve heard of Olympus. But that is another story for another day. We’re here to discuss cameras and the C-5050 in particular. SO without further ado, let’s have a look at the Olympus C-5050 Digital Zoom. Read more…