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Welcome back to Computer TV, I'm Sam. And today I'm going to tell you about
these new Olympus digital cameras. Now this is the 3010, the FE-3010,
and in fact, you guys, it's April, and you know what comes soon?
Summertime, and you'll probably be going on some trips,
maybe sleep away camp? Hey, maybe you're going on a honeymoon?
Whatever trip it is, you'll probably gonna want a new digital camera.
And this is a great, point and shoot, beginner camera, that's really,
really easy to use. As you can see, it comes in this pretty pink color.
It matches my jacket, kind of, today. But also it comes in black and in silver.
So you have a couple different options. Now, this is a 12 megapixel digital camera.
You have a 3x optical zoom, 4x digital. You have 19 MB of internal storage.
But you can just get one of those xD or MicroSD cards for all the storage you need.
It has ISO capabilities, up to 1600.
19 shooting modes including movie mode.
You also have face detection, and dual image stabilization,
which is pretty cool. Make sure that all of your shots are in focus.
No blurry images here, especially if you're taking pictures of moving objects
or moving people. That definitely comes in handy.
Now, turning over you'll see you have a 2.7'' LCD screen.
And this takes a rechargeable battery. So no AA's needed.
And, one thing that's really cool is that you don't need to hook up to a PC
to do any resizing, or editing, like cropping, because it has those features
in the playback menu, which is pretty neat.
OK, so let's take a look around this thing.
Right here you'll see your lens.
I'm going to power it back on.
You can see the power button is up top.
So once you power it back on I'm gonna turn the camera to the side.
You can see the zoom. Again this is a 3x optical, 4x digital.
OK, nice. So again, you have your power button up here
and your shutter release right next to it.
Turning over you'll see again your 2.7'' LCD screen.
You have your wide and your tight for your zoom.
This is your display button. So if you press this you have a couple different options.
Right here is your shooting grid and here you can see all the settings.
You have your playback button, your shooting mode button,
your OK function button, which brings up a shortcut menu.
You have your exposure dedicated button,
your flash, your self timer, and your macro mode.
And down below you have your trash and your menu.
And then if you turn it over, right here, this is where your rechargeable
battery goes, and your xD or your MicroSD card.
And on the other side you have your tripod holder.
And you'll see in the middle, you have your USB port, your mini USB port.
So this is how you hook up to a computer, dump all of your pictures and your videos
on to your computer and you don't have to worry about losing them.
Alright, so that was a nice, little tour.
Now let's get into the nitty gritty. How to make this thing take ultimate,
amazing, beautiful pictures. Alright, so right now we are in program mode.
You can see that with the "P". Now, program mode is also another way
of saying manual mode. Here you have to do all the settings yourself.
So, if you want something easier, just click the mode button right here,
and go to, let's see, I-Auto right here.
Now when you're in I-Auto, the camera is going to do all the work for you.
You don't have to worry about setting anything and it will automatically detect
the right scene selector. So whether you're shooting pictures of, you know,
pretty landscapes, or people, whatever it is. The camera will do it for you.
Alright, so let's get out of there. Let's see another mode.
This is your digital image stabilization. This is what I told you.
If you're taking pictures on some, on a boat somewhere where it's rocky,
and you need some extra help keeping the camera steady,
this mode will help you.
Scene selection, alright. So let's go into here.
So as I said, you have 19 different shooting modes.
Portrait, and we'll take a stroll through these.
You have landscape, night scene,
sport, indoor candle, you have a lot to choose from,
sunset, fireworks, food, documents.
And then you also have three underwater shooting modes,
which is pretty cool, as you can see here.
Now don't be mistaken, this camera cannot go underwater.
But you have these three shooting modes to make it look
like you are taking nice shots close up underwater.
OK, so let's get out of here. Let's go back to my mode selector.
And now I'm in movie mode. Now, in movie mode you have the option
to choose 640 x 480 resolution. To do that you just hit the Menu button,
and you scroll up to Image Quality.
And right here where it says QVGA, that's quarter VGA,
and that's the smaller image size.
320 x 240, and to go to the 640 x 480,
you just go to VGA, and you also have a frame rate of 15 or 30.
If you want that higher quality there.
Alright, so let's get out of here. So you just push the menu button
to exit out of here. So that's movie mode.
And let's go see some of our other modes.
If you're in program mode, we showed you this earlier,
but let's go into the menu button, see some of our options here.
If you hit the middle button where the camera is,
you'll see you have a couple different options here.
One is panorama, which basically you take several shots
and the camera automatically pastes them together so you have this
360 panoramic view. But it also has face detection.
And if you scroll down, face detection, what it does,
and this has face detection up to 16 people, actually.
So, we'll make sure that it's on right now.
So once face detection is enabled, you'll see it brings up on your LCD
this green box and it makes sure that everybody is in focus,
the exposure's right, and it's a really nice feature
especially if you have a lot of people in the shot.
This camera can handle up to 16 people in face detection.
So you'll see that green box, I'm going to take a picture now.
Alright, and you'll see it's in focus. I look super cheesy.
But that's OK. So that's face detection.
It's a nice little feature to know about. OK, so let's go into playback mode now.
So we'll turn the camera around. Right here, playback mode.
And here is the picture I just took, OK?
Now when you go into your menu from playback mode,
you have a couple different options in your editing menu.
You'll see you can, this is for resizing. So let's say you want a smaller image,
this can bring you down to the 320 x 240.
Let's go back, and this is for cropping.
So, don't have to hook up to a PC, and that always, you know, makes it easy.
SO, we're back in here. and you have options to create a slide show.
And customize even more ways in the playback menu.
You can turn these annoying beeps off, if you want.
They can get really annoying.
OK, so I think that's all we have for you today.
Again this is the Olympus FE-3010. It comes in all these pretty colors.
And it's a great beginners, easy to use, point and shoot camera.
This is one to definitely check out.
I'm Sam and we'll see you next time.
For more information on the Olympus FE-3010 just visit any of these major retailers
and type in: Olympus FE-3010
into the search box.
For Computer TV, I'm Sam.
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