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Section 20: Outdoor Photography Subject: Digital Cameras Msg# 762317
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>>The other is simply its size. While similar to a 35mm SLR, there are so many good digital pocket cameras out today<< I can really relate to that. I used to drag 35mm SLRs around with me and while I really enjoyed the versatility, there came a time when I was no longer willing to cart all of that gear with me. I ended up with one of the little Olympus cameras with the sliding cover that would fit in my shirt pocket. When I went to digital I bought the digital Olympus which was most similar to the film mode. It sounds like a familiar argument, but I'd rather have the smaller camera and have it with me, than the better, more versatile camera, which is usually left at home... |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: I use an Olympus Camedia C-2100 Ultra Zoom, the only camera in the world with a name longer than its battery life! I bought it a number of years ago on Tony Mandile's recommendation. He showed some pics on the Firearms Forum that his granddaughter took with one and I figured "if a little girl can shoot photos that nice, I should be able to, too!" The feature that I most like about it is the 10X optical zoom with image stabilization. That has allowed me to shoot perfectly sharp deer photos at twilight (except the deer's twitching tail is a blur) and reach out very nicely to shoot small or distant targets. This is the camera that took those Oriole and Grosbeak photos I showed recently in the Birding topic, Joe. The downside? Two things: one is a strange intermittent problem that shuts the camera down occasionally despite anything I do to restart it. No, it isn't a matter of discharged batteries. This has never troubled me when taking outdoor pictures, but the camera seems to be people-shy and I have had this problem when taking pictures at family parties. The other is simply its size. While similar to a 35mm SLR, there are so many good digital pocket cameras out today that the Olympus usually gets left at home while I use my wife's Canon Elf. the Elf isn't as good for outdoors work, having a limited zoom capability, but I don't take that many outdoor photos anymore. Stu |
It has only 2.1 megapixels, minuscule by today's standards, but takes very acceptable photos so long as I don't plan on blowing them up to wall-sized murals (and I don't).