I have just bought my wife the Olympus SP-500UZ as a good point & shoot
camera with RAW. The problem is when I choose to set the jpg value to it's
highest setting SHQ when I switch the camera off/on it resets the
compression to the lower HQ setting. Has any one got this camera that can
tell me if this is normal.
Thanks Bruce
RichA - 23 Aug 2006 01:41 GMT
> I have just bought my wife the Olympus SP-500UZ as a good point & shoot
> camera with RAW. The problem is when I choose to set the jpg value to it's
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> Thanks Bruce
What does the manual say?
Victor A. Garcia - 23 Aug 2006 03:44 GMT
> I have just bought my wife the Olympus SP-500UZ as a good point & shoot
> camera with RAW. The problem is when I choose to set the jpg value to it's
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>
> Thanks Bruce
Yes, that's normal, if you have set the camera in AUTO and the xD card
is small.
The SP-500 is NOT exactly a point & shoot camera, it's a lot more
advance than that.
You can set-up one of the custom modes for most situations, those will
be recovery from memory on Power On, see the manual for detailed advise
of how to set the program.
Bruce - 23 Aug 2006 18:05 GMT
Well the card is the faster XD 1 Gb Olympus card the only other one is 512
mgb. So I gues I can only get round this with the custom settings.
Bruce
> > I have just bought my wife the Olympus SP-500UZ as a good point & shoot
> > camera with RAW. The problem is when I choose to set the jpg value to it's
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> be recovery from memory on Power On, see the manual for detailed advise
> of how to set the program.
mark.thomas.7@gmail.com - 23 Aug 2006 10:44 GMT
If it's the same as my Oly C8080, it may have a default setting of
'Reset All' in the menus... This is presumably to prevent you from
screwing up all the options (O;, and it brings the camera back to
defaults on powerup. Check your manual.
> I have just bought my wife the Olympus SP-500UZ as a good point & shoot
> camera with RAW. The problem is when I choose to set the jpg value to it's
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>
> Thanks Bruce