Camedia Master Photo Print

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OlympusMaster is an older photo enhancement tool which came with some models of Olympus point-and-shoot cameras.The utility allows you to manage and edit the photos and videos that you take with an Olympus digital camera. It's particularly useful for those who want to organize and edit their photos and videos in a single application. User interfaceThe application provides a basic and rather clean user interface which provides users with the ability to transfer images from the connected camera while saving them to a defined directory on a PC or even to a burnable CD or DVD disc. After transferring, Olympus Master can also make some enhancements to photos like brightness, contrast, eye enhancements and special effects.Olympus Master has several filters for different occasions. You can smooth out a subject's skin, convert the image into grayscale or sepia and improve sharpness and auto tone corrections.The program is designed specifically for Olympus camera owners and can make significant improvements to images it imports. It supports Olympus RAW images or JPGs.What you can do with Olympus MasterPhoto management: Olympus Master allows you to import, organize, and view the photos that you take with your Olympus digital camera. You can view the photos in a variety of ways, such as by date, location, or event, and you can also create albums to organize the photos into groups.Photo editing: Olympus Master includes a range of editing tools that allow you to enhance and modify your photos, such as by adjusting the exposure, color, and sharpness. You can also apply filters and effects to the photos to give them a different look.Video management: Olympus Master allows you to import, organize, and view the videos that you take with your Olympus digital camera. You can view the videos in a variety of ways, such as by date, location, or event, and you can also create albums to organize the videos into groups.Video editing: Olympus Master includes a range of editing tools that allow you to trim, split, and merge your videos, as well as to add transitions and effects to them.In closingOverall, Olympus Master is a useful tool for managing and editing the photos and videos that you take with an Olympus digital camera. It is particularly useful for those who want to organize and edit their photos and videos in a single application.The utility is easy-to-use and does a good job at touching up and enhancing images.Features of Olympus MasterEasy Editing: Enhance photos with one-click tools and advanced editing options.Face Recognition: Automatically recognize and tag faces in photos.Image Search: Find photos by date, face, or keyword.Image Sharing: Share photos and videos via email, online album and printable contact sheets.Image Stabilization: Minimize camera shake for sharper images.Multi-Camera Support: Connect multiple cameras and transfer photos and videos quickly.Panorama Stitching: Create stunning panoramic photos from multiple shots.Photo Management: Automatically organize and archive photos and videos with the help of calendar and folder views.Photo Printing: Create prints, calendars, cards and other projects with ease.RAW Processing: Capture and process RAW images for enhanced image quality.Red-eye Removal: Automatically detect and fix red-eye in photos.Slide Shows and Movies: Create stunning slideshows with music and special effects.Time-Lapse Photography: Capture and assemble long sequences of images.Video Capture: Record movies and save them in a variety of formats.Compatibility and LicenseIs Olympus Master free to download?Olympus Master is provided under a freeware license on Windows from camera software with no restrictions on usage. Download and installation of this PC software is free and 2.30 is the latest version last time we checked.

Olympus is one of the most widely-known names in photography,producing a varied array of consumer, scientific, and industrial products rangingfrom 35mm cameras to film scanners to microscopes and even high-powered binoculars.Not surprisingly, Olympus has also made a strong showing in the digicam marketplace,building a diverse line of successful consumer and prosumer cameras, rangingfrom pure entry-level, point-and-shoot digicams to the excellent pro-level E-20SLR. The company's "D" series of digital cameras is aimed more atnovices than advanced users, with sleek, compact styling, good ease of use,but a healthy share of features nonetheless.

The latest at the entry-level end of this series is the D-390, a very basic digicam designed for novices. The D-390 offers a 2.0-megapixel CCD for good resolution and image quality, along with Olympus standards such as a Panorama mode (with Olympus brand memory cards) and "2-in-1" shooting mode. Exposure control is automatic, although four preset Scene modes can handle tricky situations. The D-390 features a fixed-focal-length lens, and 2.5x digital zoom. With a suggested retail price at introduction of $179 and an average street price of $149, the D-390 is intended to be a "starter"digicam. In my testing though, I found that the D-390 fell a little short of the image and color quality I've come to associate with the Olympus name. It's hard to beat the price, and I'd certainly take the D-390 over a lot of the similarly-priced bargain-basement imports now creeping into the US market from Taiwan and Korea, but I think most users would be better served by saving their pennies for a slightly higher-end model.

Thin and compact, Olympus' D-390 digicam is a basic, no-frills, entry-leveldigicam. Featuring Olympus' popular clamshell sliding lens cover, the pocket-sizedD-390 should easily slip into a small purse, too. Its fixed-focal-length lensand 2.0-megapixel CCD capture images with enough detail to support printingthem as large as 5x7 inches, perfect for snapshots. A lower resolution settingis good for sending images as email attachments.

The D-390 has a fixed, 5mm lens (equivalent to a 38mm lens on a 35mm camera), with a maximum aperture setting of f/2.8. Focus ranges from 1.6 feet (50 centimeters) to infinity, with a macro setting focusing as close as 8.0 inches (20 centimeters). The protective lens cover also acts as the power switch, and puts the camera into Record mode when it's slid open. Although the D-390 doesn't offer a true optical zoom, it does have as much as 2.5x Digital Zoom available. Keep in mind though that digital zoom simply enlarges the center pixels of the CCD, which usually results in lower image quality and softer details. The D-390 features an optical viewfinder as well as a 1.8-inch color LCD monitor for composing images.

Exposure control on the D-390 is straightforward. You simply point the camera and shoot most of the time. A multi-page LCD menu system accesses the available settings, although you can adjust flash mode and digital zoom externally. An initial shortcut menu screen pops up before entering the main Record menu, which accesses the camera's Movie, Image Size, and Mode Reset options instantly, or you can enter the main Record menu by toggling the left arrow key from the shortcut screen. Aperture and shutter speed are automatically determined at all times, with shutter speeds ranging from 1/1,000 to 1/2 second. By default, the camera uses a Center-Weighted Average metering mode, which analyzes a large area in the center of the frame to determine the exposure. A Spot metering option is available for high contrast or off-center subjects through the Record menu. The camera's Exposure Compensation adjustment lets you increase or decrease the exposure from -2 to +2 exposure equivalents (EV) in one-half-step increments. There's also a White Balance setting, for adjusting overall color balance. Options include Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Incandescent, and Fluorescent modes. The D-390's built-in flash operates in Auto, Red-Eye Reduction, Forced, and Suppressed modes.

Program Auto is the main exposure mode for most normal shooting situations, although the D-390 also offers Portrait, Landscape, Night Scene, and Self Portrait modes for more specific shooting conditions. Portrait mode captures the subject in front of a slightly blurred background, while Landscape gets both the foreground and the background in sharp focus, great for wide vistas of scenery. Night Scene mode accesses longer shutter times (not reported by the camera), and automatically times the flash with the slower exposure. (You can cancel the flash.) Self Portrait mode lets you point the camera at yourself (in-hand) and automatically fixes focus on you. The lens remains locked at the wide-angle setting so that you get a sharply-focused portrait of yourself in front of an interesting background.

Other camera features include a Self-Timer mode, which counts down from 12 seconds once the Shutter button is pressed before capturing the image. The "2 in 1" photography mode records two vertically-oriented, half-sized images. After capture, the images are saved side-by-side as one image, giving a split-screen effect. As with many Olympus cameras, a panorama mode is available when using special Olympus xD-Picture Cards, which records as many as 10 consecutive images to blend into one panoramic image. For more creative effects, you can transform your full color images to sepia tone or black-and-white pictures through the camera's Playback menu. Finally, the D-390 has a Movie mode that records moving images (without sound) for as long as the memory card has available space, at either 320 x 240 or 160 x 120 pixels.

The D-390 stores images on xD-Picture Cards, and comes with a 16MB card. I suggest buying at least a 64MB card (or larger) so you don't miss any important shots. A CD-ROM loaded with Camedia Master 4.1 accompanies the camera, compatible with both Windows and Macintosh platforms (including Windows XP and Mac OS X). Camedia Master provides minor image editing tools, as well as utilities for organizing images. The camera comes with a set of two single-use AA alkaline batteries, but can also use NiMH, lithium, or NiCd batteries, as well as a single CR-V3 lithium-ion battery pack (all sold as accessories). As always, I recommend picking up an extra set of rechargeable batteries, and keeping a spare set freshly charged at all times. Click here to read my "battery shootout" page to see which batteries currently on the market are best, or here for my review of the Maha C-204F charger, my longtime favorite. The optional AC adapter might be useful for time-consuming tasks like downloading images to a computer, but frankly, a couple of sets of high-capacity rechargeable AA cells and a good charger largely eliminate the need for it. Also included with the D-390 is a video cable for connecting to a television set, and a USB cable for downloading images to a computer.

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