Olympus Camedia D-340R Digital Camera

Thursday, November 18th, 2010 at 6:35 am

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Olympus Camedia D-340R Digital Camera
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Manufactured 1999 by Olympus Optical Co. of Japan. Part of the “D” series consumer digitals from Olympus, the line was modeled somewhat after the older “Stylus” line of 35mm point and shoot cameras. This model is an upgraded version of the D-340L, the camera added the ability to store uncompressed TIFF images in addition to the normal JPG images. It used an Olympus 5.5mm f/2.8 lens (36mm equivalent in 35mm film camera) and a 1/2.7 inch CCD to produce a 1.3 Megapixels or 1280×960 pixels image. Storage was to 3.3V SmartMedia. It had a TTL center weighted average metering system to control a mechanical shutter from speeds of 1/2 second to 1/500 sec and three f-stop settings (f/2.8, f/5.6 and f/11). It could focus as close as 4 inches in macro mode. It had an optical viewfinder and a 1.8 inch TFD color LCD display; the later could be used to for picture taking, picture review and camera setup. It had an automatic built-in flash with the ability to switch it off, perform red-eye reduction or do fill flash outdoors. It used TTL autofocusing (i.e. similar to how a video camera focuses). It was powered by four AA cells—your choice of Alkaline, Lithium or NiCd rechargeables. This was my first digital camera, so yes, I’m responsible for it’s little red lens missing from the self timer light on the front…