Olympus Camedia E-10

[baconbuttyman]

Just got one of these off ebay, Item was on auction, i bid 70.00 on it, but then the seller said the battery compartment has a bit missing but as this is a removable part i found a replacement battery compartment on the bay o fleas and the seller knocked £20 off it so i paid £49 plus post.
I know its only 4 mp but the camera came yesterday and the battery compartment was ok, he must have been mistaken with it.

Came with 1 gb card, 8 chargable batteries, manual, cd's. leads, bag.

ok, tried the camera and i must say its a vast improvement on my little pentax, its chrystal clear, i know its a bulky thing but i am impressed, there are loads of features on it.
a digital slr for £59, bargain, very pleased

[mantianak]

That is a good bargain. I use an Olympus E410 at the moment but thinking about getting a newer one as it's getting a bit dated now.

The good thing about Olympus digitals is the sensor is small which means it get more magnification compared with other digitals. An excellent choice for my macro work. The down side to this is high ISO's tent to be very grainy so avoid those. Also with a small sensor the lens quality has to be very good. The Olympus lens range has excellent quality but it has a big price tag on it too. Try to source second hand lenses if possible or alternative lens like Sigma (they tend to be heavy an clumsy though). The box-standard lenses are good but you'll notice the different if you used one of their semi-pro+ lenses.

[baconbuttyman]

just been ou taking some close ups, still a lot to learn about the camera but the initial results are very pleasing, a lot of the problems are users lack of knowlege (mine )
here are the better results, remember only actually been mucking about for a day or so, when i get the settings down it will be better.

pics were taken in a tree in my garden with a bumble bee (yes i did get the bee's permission to publish pics on the net )

[mantianak]

Not bad results. I can tell from the file properies you had the camera set to Auto (more info being ISO-80, 1/125sec, f.2.4, 32mm, center metered exposure). The best thing to do is get used to shooting in other modes. Auto is good but not always the best. Keep experimenting, things can get more fun.

[baconbuttyman]

yes it was in auto mode, just experimenting with the manual focus, what is the difference in ISO settings, what do they change? i know when to use a slower shutter speed, also need to get clear when the whit balance settings need to be used.e

[mantianak]

The ISO (ir ASA) on film camera is how quickly the chemicals reacts to the light on the film. So I'm guessing it's similar on the digital sensor (just without the chemicals). Lower ISO will give better quality images but require longer shutter speeds or a wider apeture to allow more light to "set" the image.

The higher the ISO the more grain there will be in the picture. But it allows you to shoot in darker conditions.

I always set the ISO to the lowest possible depending on the lighting conditions. Don't think you can do that in auto mode so try P setting, it lets you change things like ISO, metering, colour, etc but still leaves the aperture and shutter speed auto.

Good details of ISO given here. Just remember the grain (or noise) will be greater for an olympus camera compared with other cameras.