I just got a brand new Olympus Camedia C-700 Ultra Zoom digital camera Tuesday, June 12, 2001, and uploaded some of the very first test pictures I took with it. I still have a lot to learn about this camera. Warning, these pictures are large. All are 1600x1200 pixel JPG files, except the panorama, which is 2520x555 (308 KB - scaled down from its original 5035x1111 2.8 MB!). Some were taken in the camera's HQ mode, which uses moderate JPEG compression to produce files of about 500 KB each. The others were taken in its SHQ mode which uses very little JPEG compression and creates files about 1 MB each! Click on the thumbnail images to see the full-size pictures.

These pictures are un-retouched except for saving the thumbnail images using PhotoSuite III, and stitching together multiple images to create the panorama image using CAMEDIA Master (included with the camera). I also just discovered that apparently images may be rotated in the camera. As I said, there's a lot to learn about this camera. But as long as you stick with automatic operation, it's pretty easy to use.

And this is an HQ photo of our youngest cat, Jasmine. See more about our cats here.

Here is an SHQ picture of Dayton's controversial RiverScape water cannons in operation. This is looking east, across the Riverside Drive bridge.

This is an HQ picture of my brother's antenna tower, looking nearly straight up, with the focal length set at 38 mm (approx. maximum wide angle).

Here is an interesting shot of the same tower, with him at the top, taken from one of the guy wire posts, with a focal length setting of 190 mm - a little more than half the maximum zoom for this camera.

Here is another shot taken from the same location as above, but at maximum zoom.

Here is the other side of my brother, Bruce.

I spent some time experimenting with panorama mode on my camera. It appears to be true that the camera only supports that mode while using an Olympus SmartMedia card (sigh...). When in that mode, it locks the exposure setting, and draws small rectangles on each side of the viewfinder to help assure that there is sufficient overlap between images to allow the stitching software to work. However, I found that the Camedia Master version 2.5 software that came with the camera will stitch together a panorama even if the pictures were not taken in that mode - it simply offers fewer options. Here is an example of a panorama shot of Denali National Park (Between Fairbanks and Anchorage, Alaska), that I took without using the special panorama mode to compose the series of six pictures. Creating this panorama was a bit of a trick. I couldn't get the program to include all six images at once. So I stitched together the first four and saved that image, then the last two and saved it. Then I stitched the two panoramas together. I've subsequently found AutoStitch, an excellent free demo program for automatically creating panoramas from a batch of photos.

Saturday, September 1, 2001 I attended the Sixth Annual Giant Scale Radio-Controlled Aircraft Fly-In at the U.S. Air Force Museum. I've posted a few of the 400 or so pictures I took at planes.html. I hope you enjoy them.

I've put a few of my 1200+ pictures from our Alaska vacation pictures along with some comments about the trip. That page is still a work in progress.

I recently decided to try my luck photographing hummingbirds.

I have more photos at Flickr.com/photos/lundyd and in my DMA® Gallery.

Dave Lundy

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