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01-16-2009, 08:58 AM | #1 |
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In love w/an unreleased camera?
I like to take pictures but I am more of an art director than a photographer. But I like to take snapshots and used our first digital camera a lot (ca 2000) — it was a true point-and-shoot, but with (at the time) decent zoom, so I could catch the shy birds that appear along the river as well as snapshots of people in the house.
Then in 2003 Jack got a 10X optical zoom camera with lots (I mean lots!) of controls. You need to rotate one dingus then push a bunch of different buttons just to go from shooting to viewing, for example. After five years, its main user still has to refer to the print-out documentation to do anything less common than that. Consequently, it drives me crazy, and I never try to use the thing. When I need a picture for my food site, I ask Jack to take it, even though I prefer to do it myself. Well: Lately I have been seeing previews of the Olympus SP-590 UltraZoom, which is due out in March: Digital Camera Review, Digital Photography Review, and DC Views. Its headline feature is 26X optical zoom — probably more than I would use — but it appears to do a good job with it (aside from need for hand support for the longer range shots). At least as interesting to me, it does a good job with macro shots as well (I am a little hazy on the means for that). The best part for a photo noodnik like me, the camera has been redesigned, with an intelligible menu interface, big icons, and written labels. It has multiple modes, including a basic point-and-shoot, which sounds like my cup of tea. The other modes seem to offer as much control as any Type A camera buff could ask for without going to an SLR (maybe even with a DSLR). The only memory card mentioned is a 2GB xD (said to support the Olympus panorama feature). I wonder what other cards would work, as 2GB doesn’t sound like much for as many pixels as this thing could potentially gobble up. Amazon has its pre-order price at $450 (plus a card, not supplied). Definitely on my wish list for now. __________________ [SIZE=2][COLOR=LemonChiffon]::[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] |
01-16-2009, 11:39 AM | #2 |
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Looks pretty slick!
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01-16-2009, 01:00 PM | #3 |
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Over in Snarkish, Alan has been answering questions about which camera to buy, and one of the things he has against the Olympus cameras is the proprietary memory cards.
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01-16-2009, 02:30 PM | #4 | |
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I didn’t realize the Olympus card was proprietary. __________________ [SIZE=2][COLOR=LemonChiffon]::[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] |
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01-16-2009, 05:10 PM | #5 | |
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01-16-2009, 05:30 PM | #6 | |
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There's no real downside to using Olympus branded cards since I've not found that they are premium priced. __________________ Hugh |
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01-18-2009, 12:40 PM | #7 | |
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>>There's no real downside to using Olympus branded cards since I've not found that they are premium priced. It's been too long since I had my C-4040 for me to be sure but as I remember, the Olympus-branded cards were more expensive so I went with another compatible brand... Terrie |
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01-16-2009, 07:36 PM | #8 |
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Hm. I was thinking of picking up a few big ones for a trip to Japan but after a bit more thought, I jumped at a chance to pick up a stack of 512mb cards from a friend.
In practice, it worked out well. No card holds more than than will fit on a CD, so I can copy the card to the laptop that travels with me, burn a CD or two and I'm safe. I leave the images on the lappie as well. Then I reformat the card. It also seem to make it easier to segregate the images by place/subject. Leaving the flea market and going to visit a church or temple? Swap in a new card. Wastes a bit of CD space, but who cares at today's prices. Another way of looking at it, y'know? __________________ Steve Rindsberg ==================== www.pptfaq.com www.pptools.com and stuff |
01-17-2009, 07:02 AM | #9 |
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True enough. Makes sense to me.
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01-17-2009, 07:14 AM | #10 |
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Zooms are certainly improving. This is a hand-held photo I took the other night with my Canon SX100IS. The picture's not perfect but it seems to me pretty good for a camera that only cost £150 (about $225).
The picture is straight out of the camera but downsampled to allow posting - the original is 3264 x 2448 pixels. |
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