Forum: Photography


Subject: Traded F210 for Olympus C-740UZ

ShadowWind opened this issue on Dec 04, 2003 ยท 7 posts


ShadowWind posted Thu, 04 December 2003 at 8:19 AM

Attached Link: http://http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=552453&Start=1&Artist=ShadowWind&ByArtist=Yes

I really enjoyed the F210 as a point and shoot, but I realized that it wasn't going to be good for some things like long zooms, sports, and night things (though the new one isn't either really), so I gave my father the Fuji F210 and got an Olympus C-740UZ. It has all the bells and whistles, which now I'm kinda overwhelmed by. Spent about 6 hours yesterday trying to learn the settings to see what I could and couldn't do. The manual is kinda vague in some spots on how it works. I do like the 10x zoom and the shutter/aperature settings which seem to help in getting much better shots. The color is amazing, as much as it was on the F210. In darker areas though it could use stabilization in the zoom, as it becomes an exercise in stillness, which my hand isn't that good at, but I'm learning. The flash seems to work fine to help that, but there are places I wanted to take it where they don't really allow for flash photography. So it might have some issues there when zooming. Anywho, probably more information than you wanted to know. I got it mainly to make my own textures and some photographic backgrounds for 2D and 3D work and it seems to do pretty well at that. Enclosed is a pic that I took and then used as a background for the 2D image in the link. Thanks, I'm sure I'll have many questions about it now that I got all these new settings to play with. ShadowWind