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Most disappointed with the choice that Olympus made to go with proprietary batteries in most of their new C series digital cameras. Love their cameras and matter of fact have bought three C-5050 zooms this year for myself and family. However, there is nothing worse than having the batteries go dead on you and there is no way to recharge the batteries. With the C5050 Zoom camera it comes with rechargeable AA batteries , but in a pinch if they run down you can always use any AA battery at your local 7-11 store. One of my biggest bragging points and reasons for buying Olympus has been their choice not to use proprietary batteries, but now I am sad to say I have bought my last Olympus unless they rethink this. I know the proprietary batteries that comes with the C-5060 Zoom has a tiny bit more power and you can get a few more shots than with the rechargeable AA batteries that comes with the C-5050 Zoom, but Olympus did not do this for that very small gain. Olympus was thinking profits and only profits and they know this camera is almost worthless with one battery. They know most people will have to purchase a second "extremely over prices" proprietary battery and that means big bucks. Sometimes I just don't get corporate America. I understanding wanting more profits, but they need to calculate in how many customers they will lose doing it.

I've had the C-5060 for about a month and I love it. The quality of the photos is excellent. I'm very happy with the built in flash which is MUCH more powerful than the one in my Kodak DC4800. I also like the fact that I can control the intensity of the flash.

Yes it uses a proprietary battery, but I've taken hundreds of photos with flash on one charge. I will admit that I've purchased two spare batteries just in case.....

The menus are not difficult to use, although there are so many features that I've only just scratched the surface on it's capabilities. The User Manual on CD is 289 pages! The camera has lots of "one touch" buttons that allow you to set features without needing to navigate through menus.

All told I'm very happy with this camera and don't think I'll be looking to buy a replacement for many years to come.

Just for information to the people who bought the c 5060 recently like I did and reported the problem with the charger's blinking red light when first charged out of the box. I had the same problem but went ahead and fully charged the battery overnight despite the instructions saying to call customer support. The battery was fully charged in the morning, the indicator light was green, and have not had a problem since. What happened I think is the battery came from the supplier uncharged so the first time it is charged it takes a long time (I left it overnight probably 10 hours) and red indicator light is blinking.