i acquired this Olympus D-200L from my friend Rob last year (2023). from 1996, it's rocking a cool .3MP CCD (640x480), and can store a whole 20 images on its internal memory at the highest setting—80 on the lower, 320x240 setting. after testing with various Keyspan serial to USB adapters, I was able to get photos off it on my iBook G4 running Cameraid through the Classic environment. all of the following shots (save the last six) were found on the unit's internal memory.
these early Olympi predated the wide adoption of EXIF, but per Allyn Fratkin's Olympus D-320L Pages, the original photos store much of the same information; this can be read by contemporaneous software like Cameraid or even just by opening the *unedited* photo in a text editor and scrolling past the mojibake to the [picture info] section. a program like Cameraid must be used to losslessly rotate the image without nuking the metadata.
while importing these images, I had Cameraid mark all the photos taken with a flash with an "x" at the end of their filename. additionally, its built-in HTML gallery generator can grab the various metadata from the images and include it in the captions; here it's showing the date, shutter speed, flash (marked with @ if used), and file size. the date indeed—it can be set via the original Olympus software, and then saved to the camera wherein it's stored on a button cell. the date wasn't set for any of these shots save for a few. my six photos at the bottom didn't have the time saved either—I added those after the fact.
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