where do the idiots go?

Last Year I bought a new Digital Camera Olympus C-750 Ultra Zoom:
I can take pictures with it, thats about it, Don't know what settings I need to set it on to just take pictures of the houses and beach around my house. I had the extra money so I thought I'd get a good camera at the time. The manual isn't worth a &^%&*#.... And there are alot of settings If i look in the window it says Auto. AF. a lightning bolt pointing down. a empty small screen and SQ2 640x480 & 664 pictures Available. I think the size is correct for sending pictures in a email... Or if you guys have a site that explains what all the letters mean.

Thanks please bare with me. Oldtimers

Here you go. From a google search for 'olympus c-750 tutorial'

http://www.webphotoschool.com/Lesson...igital_Camera/

There are other general teaching sites too. Google will find them for you.

I'd recomment the SHQ image quality if you want to take decent looking pics. SQ2 would be pretty rough.

Welcome to the site. I hope we can help. Camera have gotten pretty complicated. Chunk's referral is a good one. Web Photo School is excellent.

One question - how much have you used the manual? There's usually a "quick start" section that should get you up and running pretty quickly. And most digital cameras have "idiot modes" that are pretty simple. They're real "point-and-shoot" modes. I can't remember what Olympus calls theirs. But I'm sure it's there.

Thanks for the web site, When I switch the setting to SHQ It only takes pictures at
2288x1520 & 3200x2400 those are real big can't even see them on my PC without scrolling all over lol my parents and worse than me so If i email it to them. there lost with a pict. that big. what about TiFF ??

Video Man-
Sounds like you're viewing your photos with Internet Explorer? There is a setting in the IE preferences that will automatically resize your images to fit the screen. You should always shoot at the highest resolution and highest quality. Otherwise, you wasted your money buying that high resolution camera. The trick is to learn how to use your computer so you can view them at normal size. There are a lot of good image management and viewing programs available that might make things more enjoyable for you. I would recommend Picasa. It's works very well, the design is beautiful, it's got all the features most people need, and best of all - it's free! Go to Google and download it.

I don't think shooting TIFF is a good idea. That won't affect the physical size of your images. It's an uncompressed format and will only result in much, much larger file sizes. High quality JPEGs are very good. You just need a better way to view them. Check your Internet Explorer settings and look into viewing programs lke Picasa.

There's a pretty good learning curve involved with digital photography. A lot of people are surprised and a little furstrated at first. But you've come to a good place. We're happy to help. And you're doing fine. We'll have you up and runnning and enjoying your camera in no time.

Whatever application you are using to look at the photo with probably has a zoom setting to display all of the shot in the screen. Then do a resize to save one for emailing or posting. The reason to use the SHQ is to capture a good quality picture to start with. You can always make a larger picture smaller but you can't make a low res capture into anything worthwhile. Tiff probably has just as many pixels but is compressed less in saving so the file size is larger. The tiff compression is lossless so is better than jpegs that way. Take a look at scantips.com for some info on file types, resolution, etc.

there is a nice freeware viewer called irfanview.. u have two options full size or or full screen.. full screen this make a little pic bigger or a big one smaller.. it also resamples the image while its doing it and does a good job.. full size simply displays the image at its original size..

irfanview is one of those "must have" things.. its been around for years and improved over time to do many things.. being as its free every computer should have it.. he he

trog100..