Epson PhotoPC 600 Digital Camera

EPSON Updated: 2008-04-13 RSS
Epson PhotoPC 600 Digital Camera

A digital camera might seem like a luxury for a school, but its usefulness is undeniable, providing you with the ability to move imagery to a Web site or liven up a text-heavy school brochure or newsletter, without having to incur processing costs. The Epson PhotoPC 600 provides a reasonable compromise between features and image quality. Its maximum resolution is 1024x768 and the supplied memory is 4Mb, although this only allows for eight images to be stored at the highest-quality setting. If this isn't sufficient, the camera offers two additional quality settings, the lowest of which has a 640x480 resolution and will allow 56 images to be stored. The camera is fully automatic with a fixed focus lens and automatic exposure with no manual override. As such, you can reasonably expect that you will receive an acceptable, if not particularly exciting, picture. In terms of conventional photographic facilities, there are a few features that you might not expect on a camera at this price. These are panorama, multiframe and zoom modes. The Panorama mode simply alters the aspect ratio of the image by blanking off the top and bottom. Instead of using a zoom lens that allows greater detail to be recorded in distant subjects, the Epson camera simply duplicates pixels in order to cause a small portion of the image to fill up a complete frame.

General

MPN: PHOTOPC600
Product Type: Digital camera
Width: 14.3 cm
Depth: 4.9 cm
Height: 7 cm
Weight: 0.4 kg
Enclosure Colour: Black, silver
Body Material: Plastic
Localisation: English

Main features

Resolution: 0.81 Megapixel
Colour Support: Colour
Optical Sensor Type: CCD
Total Pixels: 810,000 pixels
Optical Sensor Size: 1/3"
Light Sensitivity: ISO 100
Analogue Video Format: PAL
Digital Zoom: 3 x
Max Shutter Speed: 1/500 sec
Min Shutter Speed: 1/8 sec
Camcorder Slow Shutter Modes: 1/4sec, 1/30sec
White Balance: Automatic
Still Image Format: JPEG

Memory / storage

Flash Memory: 4 MB Flash - integrated
Supported Flash Memory: CompactFlash
Image Storage:
* 640 x 480 : 48
* Normal 1024 x 384 : 32
* Fine 1024 x 768 : 16
* Super-fine 1024 x 768 : 6

Camera flash

Camera Flash: Built-in flash
Flash Modes: Forced mode, auto mode, flash OFF mode, red-eye reduction

Lens system

Type: Lens - 5 mm - f/2.8
Special Functions: Macro
Focal Length: 5 mm
Focal Length Equivalent to 35mm Camera: 36mm
Focus Adjustment: Automatic
Min Focus Range: 50 cm
Macro Focus Range: 20-50cm
Lens Aperture: F/2.8