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[hemmerling] Photo Cameras & Image Scanners
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Events, Conferences
- PHOTOPIA Hamburg in Hamburg, 2021-09-23 - 2021-09-26 - “Summit und Festival für Imaging - Share your vision”.
My Photo Cameras
My Analog Photo Camera "Kodak Retina I B"
- EN.Wikipedia "Kodak Retina", DE.Wikipedia "Kodak Retina" → “Kodak Retina I B”.
My Digital Photo Cameras
Logitech Fotoman ( Summer 1993 to Autumn 1994 )
HP Photosmart C5340A ( since 1998 )
- HP Photosmart → “Software & Drivers” → “Enter your product number” = “C5340A” → HP Photosmart "HP Photosmart Digital Camera".
- There is a “lookalike” camera, the “Minolta Konica Q-EZ”.
Olympus C-500 Zoom ( since 2007-09 )
The Camera
- The power supply “Olympus C-3 AC Netzadapter, Artikel-Nr. 0215400581” is and not supplied with the cam and must therefore be bought separately.
- The free software Olympus "OLYMPUS Master 2" for Windows - May be used for “online” firmware updates.
- Olympus "Olympus xD-Picture Card" - “Support of the Panorama function”.
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- Lens “Kenko KDV-0252 Fisheye, 52mm” for Olympus SP-550.
- Lens “Vorsatz Konverter 0.45x Weitwinkel / Makro, 52mm” for Olympus SP-550.
- “Screen-Protector 2.5''” - “von Fachleuten empfohlener Schutz gegen Displaybruch und Kratzer”.
Tips
Reviews
My Criteria for buying a Digital Photo Camera ( 2007-08 )
What to buy ?
| # | Feature | Pentax K100D Super | Olympus SP-350 ( SP-500 ) | Olympus SP-550 | Fujifilm Finepix S5600 | Fujifilm Finepix S9600 | Fujifilm Finepix S5800 ( S5700 ) | Fujifilm Finepix S8000fd |
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| 1 | AA batteries, no proprietary accumulator | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| 2 | Additional “RAW” picture format, time to take a photo in this format | yes | yes, 10 seconds | yes, 10 seconds | yes, 8 seconds | yes, 8 seconds | no | no |
| 3 | Viewfinder, monitor displays preview, depth-of-field (DOF) preview button, focus adjustment | optical, no, yes, fine | optical ( electronic ), yes, no, very weak as the viewfinder does not help ( weak ) | electronic, yes, no, weak | electronic, yes, no, weak | electronic, yes, no, weak | electronic, yes, no, weak | electronic, yes, no, weak |
| 4 | Optical / digital CCD-shift / just-software image stabilisator | no / yes / yes | no / no / yes | no / yes / yes | no / no / yes | no / no / yes | no / no / yes, also in video mode ( yes ) | no / yes / yes |
| 5 | Program mode selector dial | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| 6 | Major failure reasons: Pollution, movable mechanical parts | CCD pollution at each change of the objective is a serious problem, manual zoom objective | motor-driven movement of the objective, especially at each startup | motor-driven movement of the objective, especially at each startup | manual zoom objective | manual zoom objective | no | motor-driven movement of the objective, especially at each startup |
| 7 | Memory card: CF ( best ), SDHC, SD, xD ( just a bad compromise ) | 4GB SDHC ( 8GB SDHC not yet supported ), 2GB SD | 2GB xD | 2GB xD | 2GB xD | 8GB CF, 2GB xD | 8GB SDHC, 2GB SD, 2GB xD | 8GB SDHC, 2GB SD, 2GB xD |
| 8 | Interface for external flash | yes | yes ( no ) | no | no | no | no | no |
| 9 | DC input for external power supply | yes, power supply is not included | yes, power supply is not included | yes, power supply is not included | yes, power supply is not included | yes, power supply is not included | yes, power supply ( AC-5VX ) is not included | yes, power supply is not included |
| 10 | Analog video output ( PAL / NTSC ) | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| 11 | Lense screen, worm, lenses and telephoto lens / wide angle lens adapters | optional, 52mm, yes | no, 52mm with adapter tube which makes the cam then bulky, yes | no, 52mm with adapter tube which makes the cam then bulky, yes | no, 55mm, yes | yes, 55mm, yes | no, 46 mm, yes | no, ?, ? |
| 12 | lens cap | lense cover | built-in lens cover ( lens cap ) | lens cap | lens cap | lens cap | lens cap | lens cap |
| 13 | Aperture | F3.5 - F5.6 | F2.8 - F4.5 | F2.8 - F4.5 | F3.2 - F8 | F2.8 - F.5 | F3.5- F13.6 | F2.8- F8 |
| 14 | Comfort with handling, playing back and erasing > 200 still pictures ( with 2 GB memory cards ) | not yet experienced | not yet experienced | not yet experienced | not yet experienced | not yet experienced | not yet experienced | not yet experienced |
| 15 | Size, weight | bulky, (560g+225g) .. (655g+225g) | small ( acceptable ), 365g..473g | acceptable, 302g .. 410g | bulky, 410g .. 560g | bulky, 650g .. 800g | acceptable, 307g .. 457g | acceptable, 410g .. 560g |
| 16 | Remote control | IR remote control | yes, supported by Olympus SDK V3.4. Current (newer) SDKs don't support the SP-350 and SP-500 anymore | no. The firmware does not allow remote control of the cam, in opposite of that for SP-350 and SP-500 | no | no | no | no |
| - | Do you want to buy ? | ok | ok | ok | not my choice | not my choice | ok | not my choice |
When to buy ?
In Germany, a good time for bargain buying is in late August and early September, shortly before or after the IFA Internationale Funkaustellung and Photokina exhibitions 
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Digital Photo Cameras
Surveillance Cams / Webcams
- ABUS Security-Center GmbH & Co. KG "ABUS Videoüberwachung" (formerly “DIGI-LAN”.
- Self-supporting network and WLAN cams, up to 16 cams can be surveilled on a PC screen.
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- Distributor / vendor SeeTec AG.
Digital Photo Cameras with "RAW" Format ( "Photo Raw" )
- Canon PowerShot G5, G6, G9 - Storage of “RAW” pictures ( in opposite to G7 ). The cams use proprietary Lithium-Ion accumulators
. - Fujifilm “FinePix S9100” - AA batteries, lense screen. But no picture stabilisator.
- “Leica D-LUX 3” - The cam uses proprietary Lithium-Ion accumulators.
- Nikon Coolpix - The cams use proprietary Lithium-Ion accumulators, but there is an optional battery pack .
- Olympus - AA batteries, no lense screen. But the use of the slow xD-Picture Card is a weak point.
- DCRP Review ( DCRP Review "Olympus SP-350", DCRP Review "Olympus SP-550 Ultra Zoom" ).
- Panasonic Lumix - The cam uses proprietary Lithium-Ion accumulators.
- “Pentax K100D Super” - AA batteries, image stabilisation, DOF preview, RAW images.
- “Casio Exilim Pro EX-FH20” ( Casio Exilim ) - AA batteries, Adobe DNG “Raw” format.
- “Sigma DP1” - The cam uses proprietary Lithium-Ion accumulators.
- “Sony Cyber-shot DSC-R1” - The cam uses proprietary Lithium-Ion accumulators.
Digital Photo Cameras without "RAW" Format
- Canon.
- “Canon Powershot A95” - AA batteries, CompactFlash (CF) Card Type I, viewfinder, camera remote control, but not RAW pictures.
- “Canon PowerShot S5 IS” - AA Batteries, SD/SDHC/MMC memory card compatible, but no “raw” images.
- Fuijfilm “FinePix”.
- Fuijfilm “FinePix S5700”, “FinePix S5800”, “FinePix S8000fd” - AA batteries, SD-Card and SDHC-Card compatible, but no “raw” images. Just the S800fd has an image stabilisator.
- FinePix S5700 and newer ( S5800,S6500fd,.. ) support SDHC memory cards > 2 GB.
- FinePix S2960 was offered on 2011-12-05 for 139 EUR by the food discounter supermarkt Penny. It support SDHC memory cards of up to 8 GB.
- “Kodak EASYSHARE Z812 IS Digitale Zoomkamera”, “Kodak EASYSHARE Z712 IS Digitale Zoomkamera” - AA batteries, optical image stabilisator, no RAW images.
- Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H5.
High-Speed Digital Photography up to 1000 fps
Resources
- A “Pre Record Modus” ( or “Trigger” ) is a great feature for high-speed digital photography.
High-Speed Digital Photo Cameras
Software Development Kits for Remote Control of Digital Cameras by a Windows/Linux Computer
- Canon.
- Nikon.
- The “Nikon SDK” is not avvailable for common nonprofessional developers ?!
The "RAW" Digital Media File Format
Resources
- dKamera - Das Digitalkamera und DSLR-Magazin "Das dkamera.de Fazit zur Olympus SP-550 UZ (Ultra Zoom)" - Quotation: “Das Schreiben einer RAW Datei (dauert) knapp 10 Sekunden”.
- Digital Photographiy Journal "Fujifilm Finepix S9600/S9100" - Hypercritical user opinions, quotation: “To top it off, you can forget about using the camera's RAW mode - take a single picture and you'll be waiting nearly eight seconds until it's ready to take another”.
- The commercial PDF book Uwe Steinmueller, Jürgen Gulbins: "The Art of Raw Conversion 2006".
Free Software and free Giveaways for Commercial Software
- The commercial Adobe “Photoshop CS5”.
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- The free tools Adobe Camera Raw and DNG Converter for Windows.
- The free Adobe DNG Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows and MacOSX.
- The Canon Hack Development Kit ( CHDK ), for Canon A610, A620, A630, A640, A700, A710, S2 IS, S3 IS, G7.
- Paul Dempsey, dcnicholls.com.
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- The free “Latest ORF processor from Paul Dempsey” for Windows.
- The free “Olympus RAW File (.ORF) Import Filter for Photoshop” for Windows → Does not load raw files of Olympus SP-350 / SP-500 / SP-510 / SP-550 / SP-560 and E-510.
- The free Difiapro Studio "Free RAW Viewer" for Windows - May displays Canon “CR2” and “CR” raw images.
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- The free finepix RAW decoder "s7raw" for Windows and Linux. “Supported digital cameas(*1) : Fujifilm finepix S7000/S5000/S20pro, /S9000/S9500/S5200/S5600, /F700/F710/F810/E550/E900, /S5500/S5100, /S9100/S9600/S6000fd/S6500fd/S100FS/IS-1/S200EXR and S2pro/S3pro/S5pro”.
- Fujifilm.
- The free software MyFinePix Studio ver.3.0 For Windows 7 / Vista / XP - “For WinXP / Vista / Win7 with DirectX 7”.
- The free software FinePix Viewer.
- SourceForge "gPhoto", SourceForge "gPhoto" for Linux - “A program and library framework that lets users download pictures from their digital cameras”.
- The OpenSource Perl library Phil Harvey "ExifTool" - “Read, Write and Edit Meta Information!”, “ExifTool is a platform-independent Perl library plus a command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in a wide variety of files.”
- Olympus.
- The free Olypmus Asia: OLYMPUS RAW codec for Windows Vista.
- Olypmus Europe - Software - The free Adobe Photoshop plugin V1.1 for Windows, ect.
- The free E10-Club "Olympus RAW Plugin for Photoshop" for Windows.
- The Shareware Pine Tree Comuting, LLC "Camera Controller" for Windows - Just for Olympus E-series photo cameras.
- The free “Pixmantec RawShooter Essentials” fpr Windows.
- The OpenSource Unidentified Flying Raw ( SourceForge "UFRaw", SourceForge "UFRaw" ) for Windows.
- “A utility to read and manipulate raw images from digital cameras”.
- “UFRaw can save the EXIF data to JPEG output for a few supported formats. These formats include Canon (CRW, CR2), Nikon (NEF), Pentax (PEF), Samsung (PEF), Sony (SR2, ARW), Fuji (RAF) and Adobe's DNG”.
- Can be used as plugin for GIMP for Windows ( SourceForge "GIMP for Windows", SourceForge "GIMP for Windows" ).
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- Pierre-Emmanuel Gougelet "NConvert - Formate" - NConvert may import graphics files in some RAW formats.
Commercial Software
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- The commercial “inPhoto Capture” TWAIN driver, with software activation.
- Once for Olympus and Canon cameras. Now just for webcams, Canon SLR and Canon Powershot photo cameras.
- The commercial Bibble Labs Inc "Bibble" for Windows.
- The commercial cPicture for Windows - “RAW” formats are / can be supported by an extra module.
- ddisoftware, Inc. - The commercial “Qimage Ultimate and “Qimage Studio” for Windows.
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- “Raw image support for more than 300 cameras”.
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- The discontinued commercial “dpMagic Pro” and the free “dpMagic CE” for Windows.
- CHIP Online "dpMagic Plus" - 30-days trial.
- The commercial Lemke Software "GraphicConverter" for MacOS Classic and MacOSX.
- Lemke Software "GraphicConverter" - Import- und Export-Formate - It can read “RAW” format files ( CRW - Canon, CR2 - Canon, NEF - Nikon, DCR - Kodak, ORF - Olympus, X3F - Sigma, RDC - Rollei, RAF - Fuji, SRF - Sony, PEF - Pentax, MRW - Konica/Minolta ).
- The discontinued “Oriens RAWConverter” for Windows.
- The commercial ReaSoft Development "reaConverter" for Windows.
- ReaSoft Development "Convert RAW images with ReaConverter!" - “With ReaConverter you can convert and edit the following RAW photo files: arw, bay, bmq, cr2, crw, cs1, dc2, dcr, dng, erf, fff, hdr, ia, k25, kc2, kdc, mdc, mos, mrw, nef, orf, pef, pxn, raf, raw, rdc, sr2, srf, sti, x3f”.
- The commercial “Silkypix Developer Studio” & the OEM software “SILKYPIX Developer Studio SE Version”.
- “SILKYPIX Developer Studio SE Version” are OEM(Original Equipment Manufacturer)software for Panasonic digital cameras”.
RAW Sample Files
- Digital Outback Photo - Download of DNG, Fuji, Canon, Nikon, Leica raw files.
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A4 / A3 Scanners
Calling Card Scanners
- The calling card scanner and online service EU3C "Contact Pool".
- “Quickly and easily scan, transcribe and connect your business cards on social networks, email services and CRM systems.
- The calling card scanner might be ordered in bulk masses as ( expensive ) presentation gift.
- The calling card scanner is shipped with a Windows driver, but not with OCR software, to make it less expensive.
Fairs
- The fair photokina - world of imaging, Köln ( 2012-09-18 - 2012-09-23 ).
- The fair IFA Internationale Funkaustellung, Berlin ( 2011-09-02 - 2011-09-07 ).
Education
Resources
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- Wikipedia.
- EN.Wikipedia "xD-Picture Card", DE.Wikipedia "xD-Picture Card" - For Olympus photo cameras.
Forums, Newsgroups
- Lemke Software “GraphicConverter” ( Yahoo Groups "gcmac · GC", Apfelwahn "graphicconverter" ).
Appropriate OpenDirectory Directory Pages
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