I had tried a home-made beer. As usual it had me in a semi-stunned condition. I was sitting in the living room looking at a beautiful birthday card I had been given. I knew the card would be thrown out soon, and I decided I would try to capture it digitally so I would have it forever.
I had just collected a Olympus VR310. It is a 2011, 10x wide zoom camera that makes 14 Megapixel images.
I thought, “That should do it!”
This is the card, called Tree of Life created by Victoria Armstrong—www.victoriaarmstrong.com—780-458-4856. In card form it is about 4 inches square. Much to my amazement the Olympus flash fired. I was almost sure the result would be a huge glare reflection but instead this almost faultless image showed up. WOW I thought to myself. So I shot two more framing the image vertically and horizontally. Both those shots the flash fired too, and both are perfect.
I was on a roll, so I just started to shoot what was also in the room. In the end I shot 32 frames just exploring the camera’s possibilities.
This image is the camera at full wide zoom.
This is from the same place using the camera at the most extreme end of the telephoto zoom with digital zoom added. It was taken at ISO 400 with no flash so the shutter speed was 10 sec.
I stepped up the ISO to 1600 to get to 50 sec for the same telephoto setting. Although the digital noise is very visible the sharpness of the image has improved a lot.
The Olympus has some creative modes.
The line art creative mode produces this result.
And this is the Poster creative result.
I went on to try several other digital zoom tests.
This is the best you get with 10x telephoto.
And this is with digital zoom added.
All the “tests” were conducted hand-held and as mentioned earlier, drunk.
I think you will admit the Olympus VR310 is quite a camera. Imagine what it could do sober!
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