Re: [tlug] Digital Camera Choices: Canon IXY 320 ?

["Jim O'Connell" <oconnell@example.com>]

On Thursday, November 28, 2002, at 12:22  AM, Jonathan Byrne wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thomas Kruemmer" <tkruemmer@example.com>
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>> Generally, I find digital pictures still do not match a standard film 
>> camera's pictures.
I like digital better - at least compared to scanned prints - the light 
is better, if not the resolution. (On screen, at least) Of course, if 
you're scanning slides or using a drum scanner for negatives, you'll 
surpass digital quickly in both respects, but then you're talking about 
a pretty big investment...
>
> You haven't seen my Nikon :-)
Just a few shots so far - keep 'em coming!
>
> I'll try to remember but will probably forget to send you some of the 
> excellent macro shots it does.  Most recently, I've been doing people 
> shots (my 11-day-old daughter) and we've printed some out on our Epson 
> Photo 810.  They are indistinguishable from film, and this is only a 
> two megapixel camera.  You should see what the new Nikon Coolpix 5700 
> ( megapixel) can do.  And it has the thing  I've always wished for in 
> the 900 series - a flash hotshoe.  Mine only has a plug for a sync 
> cable.

About once a week I go to Bic Camera and drool on the digital Nikons 
and fantasize about plopping down my Christmas bonus on one...
The thing is, I rarely ever print out a picture - everything I shoot 
goes straight to the web or email.  I haven't even bothered to set up 
my printer here at home - living so far from my family, they see what I 
shoot exclusively via the web.

> Plus, nowadays, if you bring a film for development, you can have it 
> burnt on CD anyway. If it ain't quality and/or convenience, what is 
> the point of having a digi-cam?
If you use film, you're using plastic film, developing chemicals, paper 
and maybe a CD of plastic and mylar that will all wind up in a landfill 
one day. Plus, every time you push the button it costs you around 100 
yen. With digital, it goes straight to my hard disk and probably never 
gets printed out.  I'm still using the same rechargeable batteries I 
originally bought, too.  Very little cost or waste and I don't worry 
about taking lots of crap pictures to get one or two 'keepers'.  I've 
had a lot of cameras over the years - there's no way I'd go back to 
film.
>
> To expand on what  Godwin said, sucking the pics right from the media 
> into my computer, doctoring up any flaws, making small web versions  
> and keeping the originals for printing is certainly convenience.  And 
> since I don't want hard copies of most of them, just electronic ones, 
> the higher purchase price of a good digital camera is offset in the 
> long run by the much lower operating cost.  I've shot thousands of 
> photos with my digital camera, something that would have been a very 
> expensive proposition on film.  I don't even own a film camera > anymore.

Have you seen that 'Gallery' program? (gallery.sourceforge.net , IIRC) 
It's a PHP program that's really great for organizing and sharing pics 
on the web.  ( I have a few albums on my site - www.mmdc.net - look at 
the links on the left - I use it as a module for PostNuke, but it also 
works by itself.) Very convenient if you have a web server on the same 
network as your workstation and can conveniently dump pics in a network 
directory for the program to index, thumbnail and re-size.
>
> And if you can lay out the cash, Nikon's highest-end digital cameras 
> accept standard Nikor SLR lenses, and they absolutely rock.  You'll 
> lay down a few thousand dollars for one, but they are truly  great.
Probably worth the investment - the lenses are the real value. The 
thing about Nikon is that the lenses rarely, if ever, become obsolete.
>
> OT: I put some more baby pics online the other day, visible at 
> http://photos.yahoo.com/yamame2002 in the Byrne Baby Byrne album.  
> They were all taken with my Coolpix 950, and some reveal its worst 
> flaw: an incredibly anemic built-in flash (thus my wish for a > hotshoe).
Seems perfectly on-topic to me... :-)

> Jonathan
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