Thanks to everyone who replied with advice in choosing a camera that
would suit a person travelling with a 2400. Many useful comments
The most important message: That the camera is only a part of the purchase.
There are essential accessories that you will need to complete any
purchase made, each camera coming with all sorts of extras, but never
all the ones ou'll need - extra media, rechargeable batteries, and
possibly better transfer options.
The second most useful comment was that for us 2400ers, PCMCIA
adapters are the way to transfer images. Fastest transfer method too.
Pop it in and it's there on your desktop to open and work with.
There are excellent sites already devoted to these matters, and
rather than recap each one's comments I'll list them by use.
I ended up comparing two lower end cameras - all I need are images to
give an impression of what I'm seeing or talking about from the field
(picture being worth a thousand words and all), rather than producing
glossy prints.
So my own priorities were more power considerations (rechargeables,
power consumption, AC adaptors), connectivity, and size, given that
for the rest of the features cameras seem to have improved generally
to a very acceptable standard. So the individual abilities of each
were a little less important.
Tallied up the price including essential accessories and will be
picking up either a Kodak DC-215 millenium edition, or a Fuji
MX-1700, depending on which can get to me in time.
Again thanks to everyone who put in their two bits.
Marc
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Essential general reading and opinion on choosing a camera:
http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=05687
http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=05713
http://www.maccentral.com/news/9911/16.ihnatko.shtml
http://www.steves-digicams.com/syncol-7.html
Useful stuff on undeerstanding the various accessories:
http://members.home.com/andybaird/batteries.html
http://www.steves-digicams.com/flash_memory.html
Three generally useful sites for information and reviews:
http://www.dcresource.com/
http://www.steves-digicams.com/
http://www.image-acquire.com/
All that's left is to actually put together a short list of cameras,
then go to the usual sites to compare prices, find the best deal on
your particular choice of camera and accessories, and buy it.
http://www.shopper.com/
http://www.buy.com/
http://dealmac.com/
http://www.20-20consumer.com/digitalcameras/
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Marc BLESSINGTON Research Assistant, CINE MARINE
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Canberra, Australia tel +61 41 7693466 fax +61 2 62397686
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