The Olympus IR-500 wants to be the iPod of digital cameras: cool, convenient, and especially versatile in playback mode. Although it's a competent enough 4-megapixel snapshot camera, with 17 scene modes--but only a limited 2.8X 40mm-to-112mm (35mm-camera equivalent) zoom lens--it really excels as a playback device. Nestled in the bundled docking station, it can display any of 12 different slide shows, each with as many as 100 voice-narrated pictures. Lengthy shows are most practical when you link the dock to the optional 16-ounce 40GB S-HD-100 hard drive.. Read on over at CNET's full test report to learn more about this digicam.



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