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%title Yashica GSNs et al. %date 2007-02-16 00:10:24 :diary:livejournal:fossils:

Yashica GSNs
Originally uploaded by Ranna/Makyo.

Set up a little stage and backdrop on a barstool, and took pictures of all of my cameras except the one I took the pictures with, of course.

Speaking of, I'm thinking of selling it.

Olympus C3000Z:

• Lens: AF Zoom 6.5-19mm 1:2.8; 3x optical and 2.5x digital zoom.
• Camera: Full-featured point-and-shoot digital using SmartMedia, 3.3 megapixels in nice cosmetic shape - the only thing that's missing is a lens cap - if you'd like to learn more about it, please see THIS PAGE. There's a ton of incredible info there, and I recommend that page to anyone looking at digital cameras :3 *plug*
• Comes with: 152 mb storage on 3 cards (128, 16, 8), IR remote
• Pros: Very nice pictures and in-camera processing. Any bad pictures I've taken with this have been my own fault. Very handy, reasonably quick, and has a nice heft to it (if you like that sort of thing), and it even takes movies (30sec, space permitting). You can pull off HDR if you're into that - 5 shot bracketing. Check the link above - they do an excellent job of selling the camera.
• Cons: No lens cap (lost it!), there may be a few dead pixels on the CCD, but they're not visible unless you try HDR or keep your pictures HUUUUGE. Munches through Alkaline batteries (Li or Ni-Cad rechargeable AAs highly recommended). Here's the biggie: does not support WIA. That is, you can't access it as an Image Acquisition drive in XP. Olympus fell into the proprietary software pool a while ago, I guess, and their proprietary software, Camedia, is expensive, and sucks. Sucks hard. However! Mac users rejoice! iPhoto and ImageCapture (very handy) both recognize it, so you folk can use it readily. For you windows people.. well.. I dunno what to say. Maybe there's a driver out there, somewhere...

Also looking into selling some computer parts. If you need anything, ask, and I'll see if I have it.