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Olympus Camedia E-10 Colin
Leftley
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| Pics are stored on cards hidden behind
a lift up flap of the right hand side of the camera. |
The digital novice has first to slide in a memory card, behind
the lift-up flap on the right of the camera. The number of images you can
store depends on the size or quality of the images you need and the size,
and type of card used. The 16MB SmartMedia card supplied can store up to
46 shots at the lowest quality SQ setting (1280x960 pixels, 1:8 compression)
or one TIFF image (2240x1680 pixels, 1:1 compression). The E-10 can
take one SmartMedia (SM) card and one CompactFlash (CM) card, it's easy
to swap between the two when both are installed, and cards of up 64Mb are
available to maximise storage space.
Most of the time I used the E-10 at the default HQ (2240x1680
pixel, 1:8 compression) setting allowing for 16 shots to be stored before
downloading and this proved a good compromise between quality and quantity.
In fact I printed out some remarkable quality 8x6.5 inch images at this
setting and it makes a good starting point. With certain subjects artefacts
or compression distortion can occur at the HQ setting and here it may
be necessary to switch to SHQ. Thanks to the image management software
employed by the camera the quality on offer compares very favourably to
an uncompressed TIFF image.
| Quality |
Resolution (pixels) |
Compression |
File Size MB |
No. of Images |
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8MB Card |
32MB card |
| TIFF |
2240x1680 |
1:1 |
11.3 |
0 |
2 |
| SHQ |
2240x1680 |
1:2.7 |
2.8 |
2 |
11 |
| HQ |
2240x1680 |
1:8 |
1 |
8 |
32 |
| SQ |
1280x960 |
1:8 |
340 KB |
23 |
94 |
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