Olympus AZ-330 Super Zoom/Infinity Zoom 330/IZM330 (QD)
Released in 1990, two years after the award winning IZM300, the 330 is a lesser known product: so much so that is does not appear on Olympus' global site, only showing up on the US website (with all but one of the links/images for its page orphaned).
The 330 has a range of in-built features that are usually only found on higher-end SLR cameras (such as double expsoure mode); in terms of Olympus' product line, it would sit below the otherwise similarly featured 'L' Series as it is not an SLR. With a 38-105mm zoom lens, the 330 follows on from the 300 with a viewfinder that is coupled to the lens zoom - while it is not an SLR, the viewfinder zooms to represent the lenses view.
Perhaps the most notable feature of this camera is the lens cap - it doubles as an IR shutter remote.
- DX film coding ISO 25-3200
- Automatic film load and rewind
- Self-timer
- ± 1.5EV exposure compensation (in 1/2 steps)
- Center-weighted average or spot metering
- Focusing range: 0.8 m — infinity (at 38 mm)
- Aperture range F4.5 - F6
- Flash: auto, red-eye and fill-in
- Single shot, continuous drive (at 1.3 frames per second) or double exposure modes.
- Passive or continuous subject-tracking auto-focus
- User-controlled or continuous subject-tracking zoom
- LCD display
- IR Remote Control (on lens cap) with 1 or 3 second setting; the battery for this unit apparently cannot be replaced.