Olympus Stylus 7010 Experiences

This is my favorite camera. I carried it with me when I went to park, party and sport events. It has amazing supermacro mode. You can take photos as close as 2 cm. You can fill up the whole picture if you take a picture of a stamp with 1 1/2 inches wide and 1 inch tall. The picture quality is excellent*. I did not miss much shot with this little camera. This lens is the show case of this little camera.

*Note: Click on the picture to see the full-size image.

I was looking for an affordable solution to take photos through microscope lens. Most specialized microscope cameras are too expensive - a simple 3MP generic brand CMOS camera will cost $300. I stumble across microscope e-magazine website. An article recommend use wide angle settings to take photos through microscope, so I bought this little camera. It only cost me around $150 and has a very wide angle. The wide angle is so wide that it will include a ring of microscope eye piece at telescope mode. I have to give up using it as microscope camera but I found that its supermacro mode is amazing.

This small leaf hopper visited my home office and take a little rest on the lucky bomboo. The light condition is very low. There are only small cabinet lights on my table. The leaf hopper is about 1/8th of an inch.

Shooting Information

Date: 12/23/2009

Shooting Mode: Program

Focal Length: 5.0mm

Focal Length: 28.0 mm

Shutter: 1/25 sec

F.NO: 3.0

Exposure compensation: 0.0 EV

White Balance: AUTO

ISO: 200

Macro: ON

I saw some beautiful crystals photos by some cyrstal growers. I think I'd grow some crystal myself. I would be am amazing view to look at crystals under microscope so I did it. Pictures were taken at 40X with Ample Scientific Nexcope CM304H microscope.

Shooting Information

Date: 01/02/2010

Shooting Mode: Program

Focal Length: 7.5 mm

Focal Length (35mm): 44.0 mm

Shutter: 1/400 sec

F.NO: 3.4

Exposure compensation: 0.0 EV

White Balance: AUTO

ISO: 64

Macro: OFF

These are the pictures of prepared slides amplified at 40X or 100X with Ample Scientific Nexcope CM201 student microscope.  The pictures was taken through microscope's eyepiece.  Please see my other articles on how to take pictures through microscopes If you are interest in taking picture through microscopes.

 Salt crystal was formed around the edges of the metal bowl after one week.

Shooting Information

Date: 01/09/2010

Shooting Mode: Program

Focal Length: 5.0 mm

Focal Length (35mm): 28.0 mm

Shutter: 1/30 sec

F.NO: 3.0

Exposure compensation: 0.0 EV

White Balance: AUTO

ISO: 80

Macro: ON

A cat apparent walked by our front yard. She is very gentle and left as very shallow foot prints.

Shooting Information

Date: 01/08/2010

Shooting Mode: Program

Focal Length: 5.0 mm

Focal Length (35mm): 28.0 mm

Shutter: 1/200 sec

F.NO: 3.0

Exposure compensation: 0.0 EV

White Balance: AUTO

ISO: 64

Macro: ON

Snowy day in the deep south. The school is off. I took a picture of our neighborhood from my house. The picture was taken with landscape mode.

Shooting Information

Date: 01/08/2010

Shooting Mode: Landscape

Focal Length: 5.0 mm

Focal Length (35mm): 28.0 mm

Shutter: 1/500 sec

F.NO: 3.0

Exposure compensation: 0.0 EV

White Balance: AUTO

ISO: 64

Macro: OFF

I took those pictures during a drizzling day. Drops of water on the berries as still visible. The size of berries of Heavenly bomboo (Nandina domestica) are about 5mm or 1/5 in. The color is bright red. This little camera capture the color prefectly.  The supermacro and Hi-ISO shooting seems to be the best combination for taking macro shot.  Just point and snap!  That's all you need to do.  Even with high ISO, the picture of the cherry bark still show a good dept.

Shooting Information

Date: 01/09/2010

Shooting Mode: Program (Super Macro)

Focal Length: 5.0 mm

Focal Length (35mm): 28.0 mm

Shutter: 1/125 sec

F.NO: 3.0

Exposure compensation: 0.0 EV

White Balance: AUTO

ISO: 1600

Macro: ON

This is a color transition link at 10X through Ample Scientific SMZ10T stereo microscope.  The color transition ink looks like glitters on whilte glue under a microscope.

Shooting Information

Date: 01/09/2010

Shooting Mode: Program (Macro)

Focal Length: 12.9 mm

Focal Length (35mm): 73.0 mm

Shutter: 1/200 sec

F.NO: 4.0

Exposure compensation: 0.0 EV

White Balance: AUTO

ISO: 640

Macro: ON

I think this is some sort of pear or apple. I like the pictures with fruit in the front and bright blue sky on the background.

Shooting Information

Date: 01/18/2010

Shooting Mode: Program (Super Macro)

Focal Length: 5.0 mm

Focal Length (35mm): 28.0 mm

Shutter: 1/500 sec

F.NO: 8.5

Exposure compensation: 0.0 EV

White Balance: AUTO

ISO: 500

Macro: ON (super-macro mode)

I took these moss photos with super-macro mode. Some of them is about 1 inch tall while the short ones are less than 1/10 of an inch.

Help needed from botanists to identify those moss. Please leave your comments at the bottom of this page. Thanks you!

I took these pictures while taking kids to little mulberry park. These tree fungus grows wildly on the tree trunk.

Shooting Information

Date: 01/18/2010

Shooting Mode: Program (Super Macro)

Focal Length: 5.0 mm

Focal Length (35mm): 28.0 mm

Shutter: 1/200 sec

F.NO: 3.0

Exposure compensation: 0.0 EV

White Balance: AUTO

ISO: 500 (high speed1)

Macro: ON (super-macro mode)