Olympus S Z - 1 1

[Old_Geezer]

Anyone have experience of this camera and can tell me how to stop it "gluing" 2 photos together as one each time ?

I'm unsure why the manufacture thinks it funny to have it do this and then provide manuals which seem to be no help at all in correcting it. Not to mention cryptic menus to search on the camera itself.

[Old_Geezer]

Actually, typical, as soon as I give up in exasperation and post here for advice I see the "reset" (to factory settings) option and use that. Lord only knows what else I have reset, but it has taken it out of, "manufacturers laughing their heads off at the problems they have caused", mode.

But it would be nice to know which setting is really causing the issue as this is the second time we have encountered this and I don't really want to do a factory reset each time it sets itself up.

Thanks.

[bhg481]

You haven't got it set in panorama mode have you?

Can you explain further what your problem is?

[SlackAlice]

Sounds like 'panorama mode' see page 51

http://www.olympusamerica.com/files/oima_cckb/XZ-1_Instruction_Manual_EN.pdf

[Old_Geezer]

Not sure I can explain further than it glues consecutive photos together down the edge, rather than keep them separate. I'll check "panarama", thanks. (The Basic Manual in her box merely says in umpteen languages how to put the batteries in and such obvious stuff :-( )

[bhg481]

I notice that the camera has a 3D mode. I don't know anything about that, as I've never had a camera with that option but a way to create 3D pictures would be to take one picture, move the camera right and then take another (ie, left-eye view then right-eye view). You can then look at the 2 pictures in a 3D viewer. I used to do that many years ago in the days when I was working with 3D pictures taken from aircraft (used for map-making). If you have set the camera into 3D mode it just might stick 2 consecutive pictures together to make one 3D picture. In your case, of course, the pictures will be completely different, so no 3D, but the camera may think that's what you want.

[Old_Geezer]

Cheers. I had tried to look at that 3D stuff previously, but was making no sense of it. The manual I found on the net seemed to think its pictures were what I'd see, and they don't seem to be. Almost as if they has posted from a different camera !