After a day of avoiding relatives and neighbors, Christmas day arrives, and with it (completely out of the blue) comes a new camera. Its an Olympus µ digital 600, a 6 MegaPixel digital camera.
Now I am wary of the whole megapixel shenanigans that go on, and how in many cases more does not equal better. However I am pleased to report that my mother has successfully bought me a new geek toy that has the features that I will undoubtedly use.
- Splashproof - marketed as an all-weather camera
- Good lens with optical zoom and autofocus
- Decent A3 printing
- Good outdoor photos & action shots with minimal faff, including panoramic shots
- Does pretty well at night with varying exposure settings
- Doesn’t need bloatware on the computer
Also it seems that everyone (including my brother) has the Canon variant of this camera, and although his is 7.1 megapixel I doubt it would be better for day to day use - it appears rather fragile!
Unfortunately at the moment using this camera is a bit of a faff, as it comes with less than 10MB of internal memory (about 3 photos at best quality). 1GB card is in the post though!
So anyway - some pictures of an after work snack taken in a moderately lit room at night.
WARNING - The first two photos below are in the region of 2-3MB!
With no effort whatsoever those are passable low light photos. So yeah I am very very pleased. It also has video recording at 640×480 and facilities to take photos continuously - which is nice too.
Now I need to save up for that underwater case …