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I've borrowed and shot with pricey digital cameras (Canon 1D, Leica Digilux 1/2)), and cheap digicams (numerous). Never bought one. The running joke among colleagues is that someone would have to throw a digicam at me to get me to own one.
The other day, I set up a new computer for a client (Intel iMac), and showed her the basics of the maching, including working with her new digital camera (a Canon Elph of some sort). She showed me her previous digicam, an Olympus D-510 Zoom. She said she "never quite got it to work", and then said, "You're welcome to take it if you can do anything with it". It was thrown at me, and I caught it like the wild pitch it was, and took it home.
It dates from around 2002. Two-point-one megapixels. No problem: my main digital needs are fairly rudimentary (eBay/Craigslist stuff, quick n' dirty snaps for web stuff, and – finally! – I can take as many pictures of my other cameras as everybody else here does).
Bummer #1: it uses the now-orphaned SmartMedia card format. Ugh...biggest card I can find is 128mb. Not a big deal at 2.1MP, unless I do a lot of shooting in...
Rave #1: TIFF format. Yes, it does it, although just a few frames chews up a 32mb card in no time flat.
Bummer # 2: slow buffer. Not that big a deal on account of...
Bummer #3: crazy-long shutter lag-time. Every digital job I've shot with (except the Canon 1D) has had a degree of lag that gnawed at me. Given the age and market pecking-order of this thing, I'm not surprised at its performance.
Rave #2: image quality isn't too bad: Olympus seems to have gotten down the formula od minimizing the stuff that irritates me most about digital capture in the final image. (If only the E-1 had been a rangefinder...). I still still see some textual issues vis-a-vis my work with film, but you won't get any "digital sucks" remarks from me. film remains my top-shelf pick for all my heavy-duty work, but "this digital thing, she alright!"
Photos: First is a snap of one of my stalwart Hexar RFs, along with two of the more important reference books in the household; second is my entire 35mm menagerie (minus Olympus OM-2n SLR...this is RFf, after all); the next was taken on a trip with galfriend to Central Park's Conservatory Garden, which I highly recommend as a tonic for whatever ails you, real or imaginary.
if the above carping smacks a bit of "looking a gift-horse in the mouth", it's mostly in jest: I'll get good mileage out of this one. And if someone has a line on 128mb SmartMedia cards for a decent price, I'm all ears.
- Barrett
The other day, I set up a new computer for a client (Intel iMac), and showed her the basics of the maching, including working with her new digital camera (a Canon Elph of some sort). She showed me her previous digicam, an Olympus D-510 Zoom. She said she "never quite got it to work", and then said, "You're welcome to take it if you can do anything with it". It was thrown at me, and I caught it like the wild pitch it was, and took it home.
It dates from around 2002. Two-point-one megapixels. No problem: my main digital needs are fairly rudimentary (eBay/Craigslist stuff, quick n' dirty snaps for web stuff, and – finally! – I can take as many pictures of my other cameras as everybody else here does).
Bummer #1: it uses the now-orphaned SmartMedia card format. Ugh...biggest card I can find is 128mb. Not a big deal at 2.1MP, unless I do a lot of shooting in...
Rave #1: TIFF format. Yes, it does it, although just a few frames chews up a 32mb card in no time flat.
Bummer # 2: slow buffer. Not that big a deal on account of...
Bummer #3: crazy-long shutter lag-time. Every digital job I've shot with (except the Canon 1D) has had a degree of lag that gnawed at me. Given the age and market pecking-order of this thing, I'm not surprised at its performance.
Rave #2: image quality isn't too bad: Olympus seems to have gotten down the formula od minimizing the stuff that irritates me most about digital capture in the final image. (If only the E-1 had been a rangefinder...). I still still see some textual issues vis-a-vis my work with film, but you won't get any "digital sucks" remarks from me. film remains my top-shelf pick for all my heavy-duty work, but "this digital thing, she alright!"
Photos: First is a snap of one of my stalwart Hexar RFs, along with two of the more important reference books in the household; second is my entire 35mm menagerie (minus Olympus OM-2n SLR...this is RFf, after all); the next was taken on a trip with galfriend to Central Park's Conservatory Garden, which I highly recommend as a tonic for whatever ails you, real or imaginary.
if the above carping smacks a bit of "looking a gift-horse in the mouth", it's mostly in jest: I'll get good mileage out of this one. And if someone has a line on 128mb SmartMedia cards for a decent price, I'm all ears.
- Barrett
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Austintatious
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HI,
I could be wrong, but I think the SD memory cards are interchangeable with the SmartMedia cards. Kind of a small rectangle with one of the top corners cut at a 45 degree angle? The card readers at the Kodak photo machines have a slot that says" SD/SmartMedia on them anyway. SD cards are reasonable cost and come in much larger storage sizes.
Charles
I could be wrong, but I think the SD memory cards are interchangeable with the SmartMedia cards. Kind of a small rectangle with one of the top corners cut at a 45 degree angle? The card readers at the Kodak photo machines have a slot that says" SD/SmartMedia on them anyway. SD cards are reasonable cost and come in much larger storage sizes.
Charles
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Nick's my name!
SD and MMC cards are interchangeable
Smart media cards are wider and flatter, so they are not interchangeable with SD/MMC cards
I was given an Olympus C3000Z, which came out in 2000. Dynamic range is not great by todays standards, but the lens is sharp and the camera has full manual controls too.
-Nick
Smart media cards are wider and flatter, so they are not interchangeable with SD/MMC cards
I was given an Olympus C3000Z, which came out in 2000. Dynamic range is not great by todays standards, but the lens is sharp and the camera has full manual controls too.
-Nick