You seem to be missing the point. I've already said that film would work better if they just wanted to take a few rolls. However, they want a digital camera, possibly for the immediacy of the results, the fun of being able to show their photos to people after taking them, etc. They'll be fine with a p&s digital that uses AAs. If they bring along a 512MB card, they'll have about 250 3MP shots, or around 400 2MP shots, if all they want are 4x6's. This will be plenty for the person who, as you say, wants to document an exotic trip with a p&s camera. If they want to, they can even bring an extra smaller card as a back-up. If digital gets them taking more photos, so much the better! Bring a back-up card, or buy one if you run out, or have them put onto a CD. And yes, Herb, there really are CD burners in India.
chris On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Herb Chong wrote: > the person who is intending to use any P&S camera for their primary camera > on a 6 month vacation to exotic scenic locations isn't going to do any such > thing. they may shoot a few hundred frames to a thousand frames the whole > trip and the camera had better be hassle free. they are the same people for > whom if there were no digital cameras would consider 10 rolls of film on > such a trip a huge number of photos. > > Herb... > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Brogden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 11:44 PM > Subject: Re: Vacation snaps with an Optio? > > > > > > So what are you trying to say? That there's no electricity in Tibet and > > India to charge a laptop? Or that you can't buy memory cards there? If > > any memory card is for sale there it'll be CompactFlash, the kind that the > > Optio 33L uses. Ditto with the AA batteries it uses. Or buy enough CF > > cards before you go... they'll certainly take up less room than 200 rolls > > of film. > >
