I have used an older Olympus gigital camera, and the thing I've found
that you need to do is push the shutter release button a bit first until
the lens focuses, then the rest of the way - sort of a two part operation.
If you just push the shutter button down in one movement it will take
longer than you would expect it to because the lens has to focus first, and
your pictures will come out blurry because you have moved the camera. At
least that was my experience.
scott
Derek Glidden wrote:
> Paul M Foster wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> > I've also linked to Derek's excellent (but sometimes blurry) photos.
>
> FWIW - the camera used is an Olympus D-490 Zoom. It was about $330 and
> is about adequate as low-end digital cameras go. It's major drawback,
> as seen in the photos, is that it's not very good in low-light
> situations. Where you can effectively use the flash, or outdoors, it's
> quite nice. In scenes where the lighting isn't quite sufficient or
> where the flash doesn't give enough fill, the exposure time seems to be
> pretty variable and some photos wind up pretty blurry. There are some
> manual settings that I have yet to experiment with to see if I can
> alleviate some of the exposure issues.
>
> I'm also still trying to get used to taking photos with a digital camera
> - it's very different from my 35mm film camera. The Canon Eos I
> normally use gives a very nice audio & tactile feedback when the shutter
> goes off, so I know when the shot's been taken. The Olympus makes a
> "beep" noise, but it seems to beep just _before_ it takes the shot
> rather than _while_ - so I'm usually prepping for the next shot when it
> actually does the exposure and therefore wind up with big streaky
> pictures as I'm moving the camera around. I'm still trying to train
> myself to hold the camera still for a couple seconds _after_ the
> beep... :)
>
> The Olympus stores its photos on SmartMedia flash cards, for which I
> have a "Zio!" USB reader and use the (very alpha quality, but
> functional) SDDR-09 USB driver with the 2.4 kernel. All photo d/l
> happened entirely under Linux. It's also supported over the serial
> connection with the CVS version of gPhoto, but I've not bothered since I
> have the USB reader.
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