OK, here's some ramblings.
- This thing fits perfectly in your hands. It's not light, but it just feels
right. Clearly Olympus engineering
- The results are better than expected. They won't hold up to 13x19 like the
18megapixels from my film scanner, but at 8x10, I'll bet they'll be hard to
tell apart.
- There a 8,349,933 different options you can set. You really need three.
- It's faster than I expected. You can fire off a number of shots before you
get ahead of the buffer.
- File sizes are huge. Max res, TIFF = 15MB! Max res, JPF = 3-4MB.
- You need storage. Lots of storage. I have a bunch of CF cards from my PDA
and cheap digital camera. Not enough. A 16mb card holds 1, count'em 1,
picture. Even my 128MB cards hold just 9. You need a microdrive (I bought
the 1GB). Officially the E-20 supports it and the E-10 doesn't, although
the drive works in the E-10.
- Differences between the E-10 and E-20 are pretty small. More pixels.
That's about it.
- It's surprisingly easy to learn, even the advanced features. Just read the
book and....
- It eats batteries. I didn't have charged NiMH handy, so I used disposal
alkalines. 30 shots, 5 with flash, ate the batteries. Off to
Thomas-distrubuting to buy more NiMh.
So far I am pleased. I think it will be my 'always with me camera'.
Tom
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