Olympus Camedia C-700 Ultra Zoom
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| Overview | |
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| Maker | Olympus Optical Co., Ltd. |
| Type | Still image camera with motion capability |
| Lens | |
| Lens | Permanently attached 10× zoom lens |
| F-numbers | f/2.8 (Wide) f/3.5 (Tele) to f/8 |
| Sensor/medium | |
| Sensor type | 0.37 in (9.4 mm) digital CCD |
| Sensor size | 2.02 effective megapixels |
| Recording medium | 3.3V SmartMedia Card, removable |
| Focusing | |
| Focus | Automatic, Manual |
| Shutter | |
| Shutter speeds | 16 to 1/1000 s |
The Olympus Camedia C-700 Ultra Zoom is a digital camera manufactured by Olympus. It was first released in May 2001 and was manufactured in Korea.
Features and lens
[edit]The "Ultra Zoom" in the camera's name refers to its unusually wide 10:1 zoom range, being a significant increase over the more typical 3:1 zoom range of contemporary standard digital cameras.
The lens is an Olympus aspherical glass zoom lens, 5.9 mm to 59 mm focal length, f/2.8 to f/3.5 aperture, 10 elements in 7 groups. The 10× zoom is equivalent to 38–380 mm in 35 mm film photography. The working range of the lens is 23 inches (0.58 m) to infinity in standard mode, 4 inches (0.10 m) to 23 inches (0.58 m) in macro mode.
The Camedia C-700 offers 1-2.7× seamless digital zoom. Combined with the optical zoom, the total zoom range is 27:1.
Removable image storage is provided by a 3.3V SmartMedia Card, in capacities of 8, 16, 32, 64 or 128 megabytes. Non-Olympus memory cards must be formatted in the camera.
The camera is equipped with an Olympus exclusive miniature 4-contact USB jack. The included USB accessory cable[1] plugs into a standard USB-A jack on a computer. A driver is needed to connect to Microsoft Windows 98 SE for image transfer, but Windows 2000 and later, as well as most Linux and Apple Mac OS X systems automatically recognize the camera as an external hard drive.
A standard UNC 1/4-20 tripod thread is provided on the bottom of the camera body. An electronic self-timer is built in, and a flashing red light-emitting diode (LED) on the front of the camera indicates automatic shutter status. An audio beep can be selectively activated or muted to provide shutter feedback to the user.
Flash
[edit]The camera has a built-in manual pop-up flash. The flash operates in automatic, red-eye, forced and slow synchronization modes. A 5-pin jack for an external flash cable is provided, but there is no hot shoe flash connector.
Still images
[edit]Still images are stored in lossless, uncompressed TIFF (.tif) format, or lossy JPEG (.jpg) format. The camera supports pixel resolutions of 640x480, 1024x768, 1280x960 and 1600x1200.
Movies
[edit]Movies can be recorded with sound and the recording time is dependent on the memory card capacity. They are in QuickTime (.mov) format. There is a built-in microphone on top of the camera, but there is no provision for an external microphone.
Power sources
[edit]The camera can use four (4) AA alkaline primary cells, four nickel-cadmium (NiCd) AA rechargeable cells, or four nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) AA rechargeable cells so that, in the end, two 3 V series-connections will supply the device (given that each cell provides approximately 1.5 V). Alternatively, it also takes two LB-01 (CR-V3) lithium cells. It is provided with a jack for an external AC power adapter, supplying 5.0 to 6.5 volts DC (6.0 volts nominal) to the camera.
References
[edit]- ^ Olympus CB-USB6
- "Archived Products > C-700 Ultra Zoom Specifications". Product specifications. Olympus America. Retrieved 2010-05-10.