Advantages and disadvantages of Olympus digital camera! ?

. Advantages of Olympus digital camera: 1. It has a long history in the field of digital cameras. We know that the longer a manufacturer is in a field, the more experience he has accumulated in related products, the stronger his technical strength and the better his product quality. Olympus began to set foot in the field of digital cameras in the 1980s. By 1993 and 1000, Olympus was the first in the world to launch a professional digital camera VC- 1000 at a price of 520,000 yen. 1995 introduced a new type of VC-100, with a price of 248,000 yen, and 1996 was 65,438+. CAMEDIAC-800L adopted a 350,000-pixel CCD special for digital cameras, which achieved an image quality unmatched by other manufacturers at that time.

When the development team of Olympus designed the C-840, there was no special CCD for digital cameras with more than 350,000 pixels on the market. Developers realized that to achieve the minimum quality of ordinary photos, 800,000-pixel CCD was needed. But there was no CCD that met this requirement at that time. So this kind of CCD must be made. However, because the development and manufacture of CCD requires considerable investment, no manufacturer will produce this product if the investment production cannot be recovered. At that time, CCD manufacturers did not expect that there would be a market for high-pixel digital cameras with 6.5438+0 million pixels, so no one accepted the order from the Olympus development team and even refused to follow their instructions. They looked everywhere and finally a manufacturer accepted their order. Moreover, the after-sales influence of C-800 is good, and the demand for new CCD opens rapidly. However, to achieve the picture quality of ordinary photos, the minimum requirement is 800,000 pixels, and to achieve a perfect picture quality, it needs 6.5438+0.3 million pixels. With the development of CCD, C-840 and C-1 400 with CCD above 10,000 pixels came out one after another. So far, Olympus has been accelerating the launch of new models of digital cameras to meet market demand. 2. Be professional. The more a manufacturer focuses on a certain product field, the more guaranteed the quality of its products. Olympus is more focused on the field of digital cameras, which are more professional. Its products involve digital cameras other than tape recorders, such as optical cameras, endoscopes and microscopes. Different from the products produced by Sony, Canon and other digital camera manufacturers, digital cameras, printers, scanners and so on. Do whatever it takes. Because Olympus pays more attention to the camera field, and with its specialty in the optical field (Olympus's optical products are widely used in medical devices and other fields), its lens system has unique advantages. The lens is the eye of the digital camera, which occupies an important position in the whole digital camera, so the digital camera of Olympus is more professional.

Second, the shortcomings of Olympus digital camera:

1, consumer digital camera style is not good. For most consumers, the performance and price of digital cameras should be considered, and the appearance is also very important, because the appearance of digital cameras can reflect a person's quality and mental outlook. A beautiful digital camera can increase the goodwill of others (such as your girlfriend or boyfriend) and meet the vanity needs of some users. As for many Olympus digital cameras, I don't like them very much in appearance, especially those that consume Olympus. For example, the Olympus μ400 has a large Olympus brand logo on the left side of the fuselage and a small lens on the right side, which is extremely asymmetrical. At the same time, it seems that Olympus is too overbearing and exaggerated, and tends to be "narcissistic". Although this digital camera is relatively small, I don't like it because its design is not good-looking, and I don't like most of the styles of other consumer digital cameras in Olympus. So when I recommend a digital camera to MM, I generally don't recommend Olympus. No wonder some people say that holding a digital camera in Olympus is a stain on my opponent. Although this is a bit excessive, it reflects the lack of design of Olympus's digital camera.

2. The casing is too slippery and easy to fall off. Many consumer digital cameras in Olympus are smoother than most brands of digital cameras on the market. If the user is not careful, the camera will slip out of his hand. However, digital products are very sophisticated machines. When they fall, they will cause serious physical damage and even the whole camera will be scrapped. I have a friend who uses Olympus μ300. According to him, once the camera body slipped off when shooting, resulting in many horizontal lines in the photos taken later, just like the horizontal lines in the previous black and white TV sets when the viewing signal was not good.

3. The camera has less adjustment function. Because Olympus used to make optical products, it also paid more attention to the combination with traditional optical camera technology in the research and development of digital cameras. However, the technology used in digital cameras is closer to computer and camera technology than traditional optical camera technology. Therefore, digital cameras in many enterprises are designed by digital technology and electronic imaging technicians, but Olympus still focuses on digital imaging talents in specific design, and absorbed the opinions of optical camera designers in the commodity planning stage.

Therefore, the number of buttons of many professional digital cameras in Olympus is much less than that of similar products of other companies, and the functions are also simplified as much as possible. This is particularly prominent in Olympus consumer digital cameras, so many models of Olympus digital cameras are often regarded as "advanced toys" by some photographers. In this regard, Olympus related personnel explained that digital cameras can increase their functions a lot as long as they add buttons. However, taking pictures needs to seize an instant opportunity. If you can't catch it, the value of the photo will be greatly reduced. If you miss a fleeting opportunity by fiddling with the button, it can be said that it is not worth the candle. So the development team abandoned many other functions besides direct photography in the design of the model. This explanation is like saying, "Although the function of our camera is simple, it can save you a lot of thoughts when shooting, so this is an advantage." But is this the case? We know that the more professional a digital camera is, the more professional its manual function will be, and the more high-quality photos can be taken in different environments, because it can be manually adjusted according to different environments to obtain a suitable photography mode. The more manual functions of consumer digital cameras, the more photography modes users can choose. For example, many Sony digital cameras with more than 2000 yuan have various scene modes for users to adjust. For example, Sony P92 has different modes such as Dawn, Night Scene, Portrait, Landscape, Snow Scene and Beach for users to choose from. For each different mode, Sony has set parameters for users. For example, in The Beach, Sony has it, so users of Sony P92 can simply choose which scene (such as night scene) they are in, which is very stupid. Even users who have never used a digital camera before can quickly master and take professional photos. Of course, some Olympus digital cameras also provide multi-scene mode functions, but in general, Olympus digital cameras pay insufficient attention to multi-function. 4.CCD is not produced by itself. The CCD of Sony and Fuji digital cameras, which form the "Three Kingdoms" with Olympus, are all developed and produced by themselves, while Olympus does not produce CCD itself, and its CCD and ASIC with calculus function are all supplied from outside. The company's product development mainly focuses on lens processing and imaging technology, as well as the ability to sort out and solve commercial problems based on human experience and reflect them in the combination of lens, CCD and calculus. Due to the promotion of the pixel war, the life cycle of digital camera products is very short for a period of time, and all models are required to adapt to the new pixel level and completely refresh in a short time, and focus their business resources on the company's superior optical technology, which makes the commercialization of Olympus digital cameras have the ability to quickly and comprehensively update and focus on the major global markets.

However, as we all know, CCD is the heart of digital camera, and the leading position of CCD technology usually means the leading position of the whole machine technology. Therefore, although Olympus does not produce CCD itself, which is beneficial for the company to concentrate resources on the research of overall imaging, optics and lens technology, the pace of introducing more advanced CCD digital cameras is much slower, and enthusiasts can only buy Olympus digital cameras with older CCD. For example, Sony has the most advanced CCD production technology in the world, so they can use the most advanced CCD first. Recently, it also released an 8-megapixel F828 digital camera. Moreover, in order to block other competitors, Sony has not provided this 8-megapixel CCD to other digital camera manufacturers including Olympus.

In addition, because Olympus wants to purchase CCD from abroad, it invisibly increases the manufacturing cost of digital cameras, which makes the cost performance of cameras relatively poor. Moreover, because CCD is limited by CCD manufacturers such as Sony, it may not be able to obtain high-quality CCD, which greatly reduces its imaging quality. 5. There are fewer after-sales service points. The number of after-sales service points reflects a manufacturer's attitude towards product after-sales service. After-sales service is a very important and sensitive issue for consumers. Many consumers reflect that digital cameras in China are affordable or unaffordable. Why? This is because on the one hand, the maintenance cost is expensive, and the replacement price of some parts is only a little lower than that of the whole machine; On the other hand, long maintenance time will cause different degrees of economic losses to the industry and even ordinary consumers. As far as the current digital camera manufacturers are concerned, Sony has done a good job. Their after-sales service points are the most popular: Shanghai, Beijing, Wuhan, Ningbo, Nanchang, Wenzhou, Qingdao, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Fuzhou, Haikou, Guiyang, Dongguan, Changsha, Xi, Chongqing, Shenyang, Zhengzhou, Shenzhen, Xiamen, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Tianjin and Dalian. Panasonic has several after-sales service points in Shanghai, Beijing, Chongqing, Fujian, Guangdong, Tianjin, Anhui, Guangxi, Hebei, Henan, Harbin, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Liaoning, Shandong, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan and Zhejiang. In contrast, Olympus has only Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Kunming and Zhejiang. As a digital camera manufacturer, Olympus has so few after-sales service points, which is really a pity. 6. The XD card used by Olympus is too expensive. XD memory cards can only be produced by Fuji or Olympus. Olympus may monopolize the memory card market, so most of its digital cameras only support XD cards. Although some Olympus digital cameras on the market can support both XD cards and CF cards, there are still many consumer-grade Olympus digital cameras that only support XD cards, and XD cards are usually much more expensive than common memory cards such as CF cards. For example, the price of the 256M XD card currently on the market is generally above 800 yuan.

In addition, a friend of mine said that after his Olympus μ400 took a photo, he had to turn off the camera once and then turn it on again when he wanted to watch its imaging effect, which was very unfavorable to the digital camera itself, because friends with a little common sense in photography knew that frequent switching would increase the heat of the camera and increase the noise of the photos taken. Many users report that Olympus μ400 has a lot of noise when shooting night scenes, which may be related to this.

Finally, according to many users, Olympus digital cameras have a common problem: the imaging effect is mostly weak and the color saturation is insufficient, which is not as gorgeous as Sony and other digital cameras. Therefore, if Olympus users want to take photos with good color saturation, they should save the photos in raw format, and then use Photoshop and other image processing software for post-processing. But the raw format not only takes up a lot of storage space, but also it is difficult for ordinary users to master its operation method.