Thu, June 15, 2006 - 5:18 PM
Okay, I've had my eye on a new camera for several months. Well, I am finishing a class this week and fathers day is coming up, so I decided what the heck? Why not?
It's a really nice camera. Here is a review I found on the internet:
www.dcresource.com/reviews/...dex.shtml
Why a new camera? Well, I was tired of the old one, an Olympux C755. It's taken over 30,000 pictures for me, so I definitely got use out of it and it's served me well (as has it's predicessor, an Olympus 3020 which took over 200,000 pictures for me). But the images are a bit fuzzy sometimes, and without image stabilization, the zoom isn't as useful as it seems.
The old camera is 4 megapixels, the new is 7.2.
The new one has image stabilization, which will make the images sharper, and it accepts lenses and attachments, which the old one did not. The old has a 10x zoom, and the new a 12x. Finally, the new one has a 3 inch LCD, the ond is 1 1/2 inch.
I also purchased the closeup kit and a 2gb memory stick (about 2,000 pictures).
Wow. A new toy to play with!
Steve Nanning (Fri, June 16, 2006 - 7:30 AM)
Lets hear it for new digi-photo toys! Yee-HAW!
I'm *still* having great fun learning new things to do with mine, so I know you're going to have a blast climbing the learning curve on your new camera. Now get off the computer and go start taking pictures!
;-)
Ariston Collander (Fri, June 16, 2006 - 9:02 AM)
Hmm, not too bad at all. The only benefit I see is the image stabilization. If you are planning to do large prints than the megapixels is a number to be concerned with. For the price, though, I think you would have gotten more mileage out of a Nikon D50 or a bit more and gone with the D70s. You'd have a lot more flexibility with the lens choices, the auto-modes work just as well as any other camera and the manual modes provide a lot of learning opportunities, plus the ability to add flash and other accessories. But alas.
Either way, congrats on the new toy and I hope you have just as much fun taking photos with it as you did with the other!
Richard Lowe Jr (Fri, June 16, 2006 - 9:39 AM)
Ah, but there are many advantages over my current camera. I don't like carrying lens - too heavy and too much to carry around. But I do like filters as they can fit in a pocket and really help picture quality. This camera accepts filters that I've collected. But accepting other lenses is not something i'm interested in on this camera, which is why I passed on the other models.
Big advantage for the pictures that I take: a huge LCD. 3" square. For what I'm photographing and for my goals, this is an huge benefit. You see, I want to shoot excellent photos on the camera and NOT edit them after loading them onto my computer. A larger LCD will help.
I almost never print pictures, so the larger megapixel is simply so that I can crop and still have a good picture. Let's me get more details.
The built in lens hood will help - I've lost two previous Olympus camera due to the long 10x zoom getting broken off (my current camera is my sixth Olympus). That's one reason I decided to skip Olympus this time.
I wanted a long zoom with image stabilization. My current camera doesn't do that and the longer pictures turn out very fuzzy in low light. This new camera handles the lower light conditions better.
Huge reason why I chose this one over a lot of other models: it accepts standard AA batteries. Remember, I'll take 2,000+ pictures at the faire or at the grand canyon, and it's a huge benefit to have a pocket full of AA's or be able to run to the store and grab a pack. A trip to the grand canyon is way too expensive to loose that perfect shot because of being the rechargable batteries dying and not being able to get to a plug for a few hours...
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