Forum: Carrara


Subject: Digital Cameras

nemisis opened this issue on Jun 27, 2000 ยท 6 posts


bushi posted Sat, 01 July 2000 at 2:07 AM

Like siva, I also have an Olympus. It's the slightly older D-320L. It has proven to be a very solid, reliable camera. The software that comes with it makes it quite easy to DL the images to a PC. The thing I like best about it is that Olympus used the same CCD that they use in their more expensive models. The CCD is the chip that acts as the film in a regular camera. It's a 'single pass' chip which means that the camera collects all the color information once rather then taking three passes as do many digital cameras. This eliminates the colored outlines you can get if your subject moves while the pictures is being taken. On thing you do want to do if you buy a digital camera especially one like this that uses a serial port to DL the pictures. Get the power adapter so you can plug it into an AC socket when you have it connected to the PC. The transfer REALLY sucks up power and can run through a set of batteries in no time.