I agree with Isaac. With my Coolpix 990, it eats up standard AA's quickly.
However, I purchased two sets of 1600mah NiH rechargeables and they last
quite a long time. I also use a 64 mb card with some compression and get
about 70 images on it. You saw it digital at it's worst. I find that for
snaps, it works very well. It hasn't replaced my film cameras at all, but
it does have a niche.
Bruce Dayton
Sacramento, CA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Isaac Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: Pentax EI-200
> Jon Hope wrote:
> >
> > Hi all
> >
> > My camera shop was nice to me today, and loaned me a shiny new EI-200
> > digital camera for the weekend to play with. It came with an 8MB card,
and
> > no batteries.
> >
> > Anyone that ever tells me again that Digital cameras are cheaper to run
> > than film based cameras is loony tunes. In three hours I had gone
through 2
> > sets of AA batteries, and had filled the memory on the card a number of
> > times. Just to give you some idea, one 8 MB card will hold one TIFF
image,
> > or 7 images at best quality JPEG. Dropping the image quality to the
lowest
> > setting "good", the capacity becomes 14 images. If you set the camera to
> > the most capacity, the settings become JPEG, good, 1/4 image, and it
will
> > hold 71 images.
>
> To be fair, you weren't using it with ideal accessories. Nobody doing
> real shooting uses an 8 meg card. I know you weren't going to shell out
> the bucks for a high capacity card just to test, but they do pay for
> themselves quickly... The use of good rechargeable batteries is also
> mandatory as you've found out!:-) With those two requirements out of the
> way, you'll find yourself snapping pictures like mad, and they won't
> cost you any more to shoot! It really can be cheap to shoot with
> digital...
>
> Isaac
> >
> > The ability to delete images on the fly is nice, but when faced with a
> > capacity of 7 images I found I was going through my saved ones picking
> > which ones to delete so I could add another. When one is deciding on a 3
cm
> > (ish) square screen to pick the keepers, good luck.
> >
> > Suffice to say I will be keeping my film based cameras for a while to
come.
> > Should I boldly go where no me has been before and buy a digital camera,
> > I'll also need to buy a notebook computer to go with me to d/l the
images
> > when the cards fill up.
> >
> > A number of things annoyed me somewhat. First off, the flash wants to
fire
> > all the time. You can set it to not go off quite easily, then turn the
> > camera off to save the batteries, turn it on, and the damn flash goes
off
> > again. My MZ-3 remembers all the things I do to it, as does my Z-1p, why
> > won't this blasted thing do it?
> >
> > My next fun thing was looking through the viewfinder and taking the
photo,
> > only to find that the image on the screen was different. Ah, I thinks,
> > that's easy, just use the screen to take the photo. Hmmmm, an easier
said
> > than done thing. Pressing a camera up against one's cheek adds a fair
bit
> > of stability, I found. Holding a camera in front of me while trying to
take
> > a photograph was an interesting experience to say the least.
> >
> > Anyway, for $1200 I don't think I'll bother with an EI-200. I can't
afford
> > to buy that many batteries. LOL
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Jon
> >
> > Relax! Take life as it comes, you can't chase the sun, you can't race
the wind
> >
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