Hmmm. That sounds like someone who never got comfortable with a digital camera or who tried one when they first came out and were more temperamental. My $200 Olympus takes very good pictures and I am delighted with it. I took it to Paris when my company sent me there for 48 hours. I took 78 shots without worrying about running out of film (I have a card large enough for 500 photos) and I can get better quality shots on it than on my Canon 35 mm camera because it has more settings. My FIL, formerly a hobby photographer who used to shoot weddings for extra money, traded in his entire high-end camera outfit (expensive large 35 mm single-reflex plus all the lenses) for a digital camera and he is extremely happy.
I'm glad that I don't have expensive printing costs and bags of negatives all over the house. I can upload all my photos to the Web for relatives abroad to order their own prints and I can burn them to a CD for storage. Because of the "preview" function, I can tell fairly quickly whether I got a shot properly framed or not and I can delete the bad shot on the spot, instead of having to pay for printing an entire roll. I use both a small 35 mm and a digital camera and I have to say that I get more use out of the digital camera. The only thing I have to remember to do is to recharge the batteries if I'm going to take it out the next day. For prints I have not noticed any difference in printing quality between a digital and a regular film camera. Of course, you have to make sure that the resolution is set high enough for the digital camera, but that's not a setting I change very often anyway. I like being able to alter my shots with Photoshop. A couple times I've gotten some good shots of my son but the background is a little too dark or there is something intruding in a corner. With Photoshop I can crop extraneous details and change the colour values of the pictures. I use my digital camera for photographing lace and textiles because it can take better closeups (to 7") than my regular camera and because I can see right away whether the shot turned out. Another plus is that it's instant gratification. I am *terrible* about remembering to take pictures with my regular camera. I once had two of my son's birthday parties on a single roll of film! With a digital camera I can take the picture and immediately upload it to the computer or print it. My son likes to make K'nex models but hates to take them apart. We made a deal: I photograph him with every one of his models, put it on the computer as wallpaper or a screen saver, and he takes apart the model. I could never afford to do that with regular film. Different strokes for different folks--I love my digital camera. Avital On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 18:01:23 +1000 (EST), Helene Gannac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dot wrote: > >I know there was a long discussion on digital cameras a while ago, when > the possibility of my aquiring one was nil. I am now in the market for one > and would like to ask who ever posted at that time to forward their very > interesting articles to me. > > Hello, Dot, > > like you, I've been thinking about a digital camera, and after seing the > beautiful prints of lace exhibits from our Adelaide exhibition, taken by > one of our Committee members who also owns a camera shop, I asked her > which digital camera she used to get so close to the lace. Her answer was: > "Unless I had about 10,000 dollars to spare, I wouldn't touch a digital > camera with a barge-pole! They are dreadful, and only give you very > mediocre results. If you want to send your photos through the Internet, > get your films done on CD as well as printed, and you will have much > better photos." So I'm listening to her and sticking to my 35 single > lens!! > > Helene, the froggy from Melbourne > - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
