>Actually, I cannot see from Olympus America's web site that the C-8080
>can save in RAW mode! Apparently the C-5060 can. Weird.
>
Apparently it can, but is very slow...
See the review by Michael Reichmann at Luminous
landscape
(http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/olympus-c8080.shtml):
>Like the Sony F828 the Olympus C-8080 is able to
>shoot in RAW mode. But as with the Sony this
>mode is almost unusable because the camera takes
>forever (actually about 20 seconds — a bit
>slower than the Sony) to write a RAW file to
>disk. During this time the camera is unusable.
>Sorry Olympus and Sony — that's not the way I do
>photography.
Among the 8MP cameras, Michael prefers the
Minolta A2 and Sony F828. The Olympus has a
number of drawbacks, particularly this very slow
Raw mode, and bad ergonomics. However he finds
that its image quality is pretty good.
Bernard
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