C-211 Zoom design is very straightforward. Both the battery compartment and SmartMedia slot are fully accessible when the camera is mounted to a tripod. The C-211 also features 2X digital telephoto, but remember that digitally enlarged images often compromise quality. There is no optical viewfinder on the C-211. Instead, a two-inch, color LCD monitor remains activated whenever the camera is operational, displaying menu items, flash settings, focus modes, and digital telephoto settings in addition to the CCD image display.
Exposure is automatic.
The user makes manual adjustments by selecting different flash modes or by adjusting the exposure compensation, white balance, or light metering. An External Flash mode enables the camera to work with a remote flash and slave unit, but there is no sync terminal for an external flash head. In addition to the standard still capture mode, the C-211 offers several special recording modes. A Movie mode records up to 15 seconds of moving images without sound, at the 320 x 240 pixel image size. When using an Olympus SmartMedia card, a Panorama mode enables the user to capture a series of photographs that can be stitched together later on a computer.