3030 or 990? cant decide!

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Can't decide between the olympus and nikon. I am a web developer/new media artist looking to get seriously into photography. Also excited about importing bursts/movies into macromedia's flash.

What have been your experiences, pro or con?

Would love to get any feedback on which additional features are used by people in my field. all advice appreciated!!

Best price etc

Thanx!

JAR

-- jeremy robinson (jeremyr@idirect.com), June 09, 2000

Answers

I did a lot of research between these two cameras. Ultimately I sided with the Nikon 990. Here's why. I've seen note posted on the web and talk with a lot more pro photographers who have gone to the Nikon. Manual control, picture quality, color fidelity, very reputable company, it uses CompactFlash card which seem to have gained wider acceptance as a "digital" film. Cons poor flash (red eye) and no sound on movies.

The Olympus: The sister camera the 2020 had gotten rave review from many people. Good picture, more camera like feel and controls, good manual controls. The 3030 gets a 32 mb cache to store photos before writing to card. Motion picture mode shoot with sound. These are all just off the top of my head facts. See http://www.imaging-resource.com or similar sites that does reviews of these cameras. Good luck!

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-- Dean Kawasawa (kawasawa@earthlink.net), June 13, 2000.


This is a tough question. I recently purchased the 3030Z and absolutely love it. I agonized for over a week on whether to purchase it or the Nikon 990. I read many reviews and user comments on various web sites. The main thing that swayed me was the frequently reported red eye problem with the 990. This is correctable with software, but my wife is very big into making albums of our children and family. Having to constantly fix the red eye would have pissed her off. I have printed some pictures of my son on my 722C which isn't a photo optimized printer, but on photo paper they looked better then 90% of the pictures my wife already had in her album. I have also taken pictures in burst mode at my older sons KU basketball camp. I took over a 100 pictures in this mode and caught some great action shots while being able to go back and delete the bad shots.

In short I'm happy with my choice, but Nikon users would probably say the same thing.

I also looked at the new Casio, but ruled it out because of user reported quality problems and the Olypus felt very good in my hand. Although that IBM microdrive is a huge dangling carrot to pass up.

Good luck!

-- John Schneider (jschneider@kc.net), July 06, 2000.


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