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Here's a dpreview "side by side" comparison:

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/compare_post.asp?method=sidebyside&cameras=nikon_cp5700,oly_c5060z&show=all

..which lets you compare the features etc.

Even though I'm an Olympus man I'd probably go for the Nikon in this case on the basis of, as you say, almost double the zoom range and all round "photography" features being slightly better (slightly faster lens, can use ISO 800, closer focus range, slightly better metering options etc).

I wouldn't worry too much about the negative comments in the forums, they're probably very unrepresentative as angry people tend to join forums to complain whereas happy customers generally don't.

I see you posted in the Open Talk area where you're unlikely to get much response to that kind of post. OTOH when I was deciding between my Oly E-10 and a Minolta Dimage7 (the contemporary competition) I made the mistake of posting a "which should I get" thread in both the Oly and Minolta forums and got flame grilled on both sides

Michael.

<blockquote data-quote="michaelab" data-source="post: 571452" data-attributes="member: 1011">Here's a dpreview &quot;side by side&quot; comparison:<a href="http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/compare_post.asp?method=sidebyside&amp;cameras=nikon_cp5700%2Coly_c5060z&amp;show=all" target="_blank">http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/compare_post.asp?method=sidebyside&amp;cameras=nikon_cp5700,oly_c5060z&amp;show=all</a>..which lets you compare the features etc.Even though I'm an Olympus man I'd probably go for the Nikon in this case on the basis of, as you say, almost double the zoom range and all round &quot;photography&quot; features being slightly better (slightly faster lens, can use ISO 800, closer focus range, slightly better metering options etc).I wouldn't worry too much about the negative comments in the forums, they're probably very unrepresentative as angry people tend to join forums to complain whereas happy customers generally don't.I see you posted in the Open Talk area where you're unlikely to get much response to that kind of post.&nbsp; OTOH when I was deciding between my Oly E-10 and a Minolta Dimage7 (the contemporary competition) I made the mistake of posting a &quot;which should I get&quot; thread in both the Oly and Minolta forums and got flame grilled on both sides <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big Grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Michael.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="michaelab, post: 571452, member: 1011"] Here's a dpreview "side by side" comparison: [URL]http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/compare_post.asp?method=sidebyside&cameras=nikon_cp5700%2Coly_c5060z&show=all[/URL] ..which lets you compare the features etc. Even though I'm an Olympus man I'd probably go for the Nikon in this case on the basis of, as you say, almost double the zoom range and all round "photography" features being slightly better (slightly faster lens, can use ISO 800, closer focus range, slightly better metering options etc). I wouldn't worry too much about the negative comments in the forums, they're probably very unrepresentative as angry people tend to join forums to complain whereas happy customers generally don't. I see you posted in the Open Talk area where you're unlikely to get much response to that kind of post. OTOH when I was deciding between my Oly E-10 and a Minolta Dimage7 (the contemporary competition) I made the mistake of posting a "which should I get" thread in [i]both[/i] the Oly and Minolta forums and got flame grilled on both sides :D Michael. [/QUOTE]

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