On 11 Sep 2003, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I found that the best way to use a digital camera is to treat the memory > > cards as film. You buy several of them acording to your needs and replace > > one when it gets full. > > What's wrong withdumping files onto a hard disk from time to time? > You can re-use the memory, can't you?
i think geoff is talking about a completely different scale of cameras/prices, so most of his advice is probably not relevant for you. > > Canon just anounced a $1200 (US list price) EOS-300D. which has lots of > > features but a CMOS or CCD sensor (I think Canon prefers CMOS to CCD, > > but I'm not sure). > > I would very much prefer something a few times cheaper... how much cheaper? there are cameras for any price-range you'll define. the one i bought, i did via wallashop's "group sale" for an HP 850 (which has an optical zoom of X8, which seems to be missing from most cheap cameras), and it cost 1900 NIS including shipping, about a month ago. this includes a (very small) 16MB SD memory card. i had to buy rechargable batteries for it, and will hopefully buy a larger card, too (for few hundeads NIS). this camera supports both usb-storage (which works simply under linux - just mount it) and some photo exchange protocol that _appears_ to be something standard, thought i didn't try using it. when you buy a camera, do note: 1. how large is the _optical_ zoom (a digital zoom, as far as i understood, is generaly quite pointless). 2. what kind of lens it has (if you know anything about lens types - i don't ;) ). 3. how much control you have over taking pictures (things like shutter speed, and the rest of the buzz-words photographers use) 4. how much control you have about the number of pixels it uses (e.g. in the HP 850, you can either do 4M pixels, or 1M pixels - not a number in between, which is quite annoying). and indeed stick to USB, and forget about serial - i think it'll also mean a faster transfer of pictures from the camera to the computer. not to mention the fact that a USB camera can be easily used as a 'floppy' (making the use of a seperate disk-on-key redundant). well, that's about all i know about digital cameras ;) -- guy "For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
