Very interesting. I can see how battery life could become an issue. If
you're shooting inside with an AC adapter though, the microdrive will really
speed things up.
John Hermanson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "C.H.Ling" <chling@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Digital Olympus accessories/flash - anyone knowsanything?
| I learned from rec.photo.digital that many E-10 users used the IBM
| micro drive without any problem. When I bought the micro dirve here,
| the sales also said they sell many for E-10 users too. Actually I
| don't want to spend too much as I just almost used up my whole year's
| camera budget ;-) but it is just hard to work with only a 32M+16M SM.
| At 1:8 compression it does have noticeable lost is picture quality,
| 1:4 works fine but it only store 17-18 photos per 32MB card.
|
| The micro drive is a good investment, I paid around $200 for a 340M,
| the same money I can only get a 128M CF. It work well on my E-10 but
| since people said it consume more power and Olympus don't recommend
| it. I now mainly use it to copy the file from my 32M SM, once it is
| full I just plug in the micro drive and download the image (it takes
| around 70 seconds to download full 32M) then clean up the SM and shoot
| again.
|
| On the other hand I have tried to plug a 1G micro drive to the E-10,
| there was no display on the b/w LCD but it work and I can shoot with
| it. Later I heard that due to picture number exceeded 999 (it was set
| to 1:8, so the number of pict was more than 1000) so it cause error
| and no LCD display.
|
| John Hermanson wrote:
| >
| > You are using the micro drive in the E-10? How is it? It says
specifically
| > in the instructions not to use it. Just wondering.
| >
| > John Hermanson
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