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Olympus Camedia C-3030 Zoom |
| Date: |
15/01/02 (92 review reads) |
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Advantages: Great quality, resolution, movie, sound
Disadvantages: High price
Digital cameras of this company are rightfully considered one of best,
and camera C-3030Zoom — not exception.
C-3030 — this first 3 megapixel device in the linee very ingenious and already achieved
broad confession of digital cameras of series C-2000, intended for the broad circle of users.
As far as disiny of these cameras is well perfect, but famous company in this sense on-good
is conservative, exterior and functional possibilities of new camera remind C-2020Z. However
style body of black colour more looks like traditional photodevices and looks, certainly,
more solid.
Camera has not only optical, as well as liquid-cristal viewfinder, moreover is highly spare
spends batteries. Including LCD-screen, you get practically same information, as in viewfinders
of professional mirror cameras: on the background of remove expressing are seen and install
by you parameters, and parameters to exposures, which has choose an automation of camera.
Thereby, always knowing endurance and diaphragm, in any one of modes you are to enter
expocorrection, installing that values of parameters, which consider necessary. Practically
possible realization of even mode of completely manual installing the expositional parameters,
truth your choice will be limited by the small detour from values, offered automation.
However C-3030Z has and excellent optical viewfinder, which growing dark under locked
optics and reminds you on that, that nonbad its open. Optical viewfinder of this camera
deserves the most high evaluation, as far as it not only traces all changing a focal
length optics, as well as has a turning, allowing people with the bad vision to take
pictures without spectacleses. On the viewfinder are situated two leds — upper (orange)
shows readiness of flash, but lower (green) signalizes on operating a autofocus.
Both are distinctly seen when viewing.
r>As to comforts of control, C-3030 Zoom is much close on its possibilities to the modern
usual non-digital cameras. All buttons of control are situated sufficiently suitable,
so possible control a removal, holding its one hand.
Thick plastic salient for the right of hand much relieves this process, however
lion a hand at decotton wool absolutely nonwhere — short body with rather big, removable
to the right optics leaves only small point for fingers. And in ditto time a camera
such «thick", that even with the removed optics its at all do not put in the pocket.
From precending this model distinguishes presence big 3,34-megapixel matrix, allowing
get shots with the rezolution before 2048 X 1536. Except the colour of body, are change
and some functions of control: instead of the button of including a power supply
for instance, which earlier easy was tangle with Go button, camera is include a little
wheel choice of modes. Besides, has appear a possibility of removal of video
(in the format MOV) and sound commentaries.
Choice of modes of removal and image information on the screen will now satisfy
even the most strict users. Particularly liked to me method of noise pickup on
the sharpness in the mode of manual focusing: when switching in this mode on
LCD-screen appears a scale, which displays a distance before the object,
but for more clear noise pickup appears magnified central part of the frame.
Moreover after changing a focus a camera automatically goes back to the
full frame and back.
Camera allows write photographies in different formats — 2048 X 1536 before 640 X 480
with the different degree of compression. Besides, is possible record and
noncompressed expressing in TIFF format.
Connectivity with the computer is realized on USB interface at program OLYMPUS CAMEDIA
Master (work with the card, as with the disk, dri
vers of camera do not allow).
Incomprehensible, truth, company's love to cards SmartMedia, while practically
all its rivals already rewent on CompactFlash (and additionally on Type II).
Specifically follows to note a best working a camera with built-in and external flashes:
and changed power of pulse, and synchronizing on the beginning and end to exposures.
In the new camera has appear a possibility to connect a timed external flash
OLYMPUS FL-40, which connection is realized through the special connector
of from the side camera.
Also necessary to mention of already traditional for cameras Olympus
infrared (that is to say unwire) remote control.
Camera Olympus Camedia C-3030 Zoom is a leader for me. Possibility of aquisition
of additional adapter for external adjutages and other useful accessories from
Olympus does a work with her else more suitable.
Features
Olympus Camedia C-3030Z is provided with by 0,5-inch, 3,34-megapixel matrix,
capable to give a scene with the resolution before 2048 X 1536 pixels.
On more comprise of the supply a card of memory 16 Mbytes possible to write
one non-compressed shot maximum size 2048 x 1536 in TIFF format (size of file — 9,2 Mbyte)
or eight shots in SHQ mode (size of file aproximately 2 Mbytes), or 20 shots in
the mode HQ (size of file less 1 Mbyte). Other modes (SQ1 and SQ2) write expressing
of else smaller sizes. Sensitivity is price at 100 ISO, but can be install and
in 200 or even in 400 ISO without serious worsenning a quality of scene.
However, big sensitivity brings about reducing a number of gradations of colour,
reproducible camera.
Camera possesses a splendid glass optics with optical 3-times swing of focal length
(there is and fluent 1-2,5-a multiple digital increase).
Focal range from 32 before 96 mms (in 35-mm equivalent).
Start diaphragms — 1
:2,8 before 1:11, moreover regardless of the focal length.
Shutter ensures endurances from 1/800 before 1 seconds, but in the manual
mode — 16 seconds. Optics has a thread, so possible use different filters and
adjutages.
Measurement to exposures is realized by two systems: given by default or point, on the frame
centre. In automatic (software) mode LCD-screen by default is not actuate, but
striking one button (without needing leaving in the menu) possible go from one
type of exposure to other. Useful also so-called mode of expositional fork (Auto Bracketing),
which allows to do three or five shots with the different exposure. It is first done
shot with the normal exposure, but then, if you continue to retain a button pressed,
camera does a series a shots, herewith changing exposure each following with the
step in 1/3 EV, 2/3 EV and 1 EV.
In this camera possible manually to install both an endurance, and diaphragm,
but particularly follows to note a best method of focusing with use matrix.
When switching in the mode of manual focusing on the screen of camera appears
a scale, which displays a distance before the object, but for more clear noise
pickup on the sharpness on LCD-screen appears magnified central part of the frame
(as when using Zoom). Moreover as soon as you stop a process of focusing, camera
automatically returns a scene to the full frame.
Regrettably, in the camera is not provided by manual installing a balance white
on the chosen field, that allows to get a qualitative
shots under any non-standard luminosity.
Contrast liquid-cristal 4,5-sm display possible to use, as as a viewfinder, so and
for viewing scenes.
From new functional possibilities beside cameras now has appear a mode of
removal of video of format QuickTime, including and with will write a sound.
Look their possible and on the screen
of camera, but here is to hear with
the sound, will come to connect a camera to the television set. Unlike
some other cameras with such possibility, this model is equip with
only mike, place on the backboard. Mode of removal of video is choose by
the tumbling wheel choice of modes in the position a cinema. Choice of length
of roller is realized in accordance with installing a quality (HQ or SQ) and
capacity of card of memory. On the card 32 Mbytes fits 93 seconds video with
the sound accompaniment. Discriminating particularity of camera C-3030Z at the
removal of rollers is a possibility of editing in the mode of reproduction
(removing unnecessary parts or dismemberments of film on two fragments).
Presence of mike on the camera will be also evaluated and one,
wants to add a speech abstract to some photographies.
Olympus C-3030 Zoom uses SmartMedia-cards and will sold with the card by the
volume 16 Mbytes. It is situated for the hard door on the side of camera
and has very suitable extraction system (darts out when striking). Regrettably,
company Olympus in series models Camedia does not move to cards CompactFlash,
as other producers, that has allow to use IBM microwinchesters.
Like some other cameras of company Olympus C-3030 Zoom offers a mode of
removal of panorama (only on cards of company Olympus), which, however,
not so is suitable, as beside Casio devices or Canon. Note on LCD-screen of frame
for the overlapping (which will later be used in the program of fabrication a
panorama) happens to to remember.
On-former, format of videooutput (NTSC or PAL) depends on country, where was
obtained camera. Power supply unit is stipulate, but in the supply does
not enter. Connection to the computer possible on the archaic serial port
or on quick USB interface (cords for the connection — different).
Photo quality
Ph
otos received on the camera Olympus C-3030 Zoom, pleasantly liked:
they not only rich details (either as in other cameras of high permit), as well
as the least «noisy". Even in JPEG-modes of photography have no visible defects of
compression, but choice of noncompressed format TIFF is possible under any permit of scene.
Measurements to exposures rather exact, however received colour are not always
identical original (additionally, in default of the manual setting of balance of white,
this position not always manages correct).
As a whole Camedia C-3030 Z — very friend in turning and flexible on its possibilities
a camera. Even when using only in the automatic mode it creates perfect expressing,
one for the others, under different conditions of removal.
AutoFocus beside cameras similarly tone. Crosshairs in the viewfinder centre
help choose a mark, and focusing occurs enough quickly under first striking an button.
Due to presence 32-megabyte DRAM-a buffer of memory C-3030 Zoom is very fast
(less than 2 seconds on the frame), and, see, due to same buffer, this device of
vastly more economical their own rivals. However presence of additional memory
raises a camera cost, and for wanting to spare a company Olympus releases a
cheap model without the buffer of memory — Camedia C-3000 Z.
Interface of user
In the mode of record a menu is display on two separate screens, and any
option is easy comprehensible. Interface is well designed and is comprehensible.
At the joystick and button "OK" easy change main parameters for 2-3 striking, but
for the choice of less frequency installation possible to move to the embedded level a menu.
Other function of screen — this overlay, allowing is operative to display the current
parameters of removal even in the automatic mode, as well as chosen modes. But in
the
mode of reproduction on LCD-screen possible to look adjustment for each
photography, be kept in the file of scene.
Software
Olympus traditionally delivers with its camera an utility Camedia Master (running version
2.0, which allows now, aside from accustomed functions of show and
removing shots, "suture" panoramas). The same CD-ROM is kept QuickTime 4 for
viewing MOV-files, done by the camera. On the separate disk — popular graphic editor
Adobe Photoshop 5.0LE.
Regrettably, in software practically is not marketed function of camera governing
from the computer and no possibility to remove under governing a computer. Single
available possibility — this synchronizing hours of cameras and computer. However
and here you are to get a full-fledged control and removal from the computer,
having use for this variety of available programs for chipset Sierra Imaging
(including free and conditionally-free).
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