Olympus C-730UZ

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C-730 Ultra Zoom
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Overview
Maker Olympus Optical Co. Ltd.
TypeStill image camera with motion capability
Lens
Lens Permanently attached 10X lens
F-numbers f2.8/f3.5 – f/8
Sensor/medium
Image sensor type0.37 in (9.4 mm) Digital CCD
Image sensor size 3.2 effective megapixels
Recording medium xD Picture Card or SmartMedia card, removable
Focusing
FocusAutomatic, Manual
Shutter
Shutter speeds 1/1000 s–16 s

The Olympus C-730UZ is a digital camera manufactured by Olympus. It was first released in 2002.

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Features and lens

The UZ in the camera's name refers to Ultra Zoom ; 10 times zoom being a significant increase over the more standard three times zoom capability of standard digital cameras. The lens is an Olympus aspherical glass zoom lens 5.9–59 mm. The 10x zoom is equivalent to 38–380 mm in 35 mm photography. The specifications describe it as a "multivariator 2 aspherical glass 10x zoom".

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Flash

The camera has a built-in manual pop-up flash.

Movies

Movies can be recorded with sound and the recording time is dependent on the memory card capacity. They are in QuickTime (.mov) format.

QuickTime extensible multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc.

QuickTime is an extensible multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. First made in 1991, the latest Mac version, QuickTime X, is currently available on Mac OS X Snow Leopard and newer. Apple ceased support for the Windows version of QuickTime in 2016.

Power source

The camera can use AA batteries (4) including rechargeable batteries. Alternatively it also takes two LB-01(CR-V3) lithium batteries.

Images

Sample Images

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