Glen Tortorella wrote: > Thanks, Doug, for the detailed response.
You're welcome. I probably forgot some options. Oh yeah, option (4) would be "have a buddy that does his own digital printing and trade him beer for prints of your shots". :-) > I like options (1) and > (1a); however, I do not discern any difference between these two > options. It seems like in either case I would just buy a printer. > Is there any other difference? (1a) is a subset of (1). (1a) is talking about printers that /only/ print photos, and the inexpensive ones often top out at 5" x 7" prints. They tend to take "all in one" ink cartridges and some even have packaged paper cassettes. The emphasis is on low entry cost and nearly-one-button ease of use, not control or, to a certain degree, quality. They can eat you up on running costs just like the cheap inkjet computer printers. (1) is talking about more expensive and more flexible printers that you must connect to a computer to use. These usually go up to at least A4 or 8.5" x 11" paper size. They can have from one to eight or nine ink cartridges. You can put any of dozens of cut sheet paper types in them. You can control the color better. The difference between (1) and (1a) is sort of like the difference between using an SLR and a covey of lenses versus using a point and shoot camera. :-) > Also, is there a cable that runs > between the printer and camera body? Maybe, maybe not, depending on the printer and camera body in question. For some of them, you just take the memory card out of the camera and plug it into the printer and press a few buttons and /voila/, prints! Or sometimes you connect the camera to the printer via a USB cable or something. It just depends on the devices in question. Same things apply to the camera and the computer. Most folks around the PDML seem to take the card out and use a card reader on the computer to get the photos into the hard drive, myself included. Some DSLRs can also be connected to the 'puter via a specialized USB or Firewire cable that comes with the camera and you can extract the photos from the camera that way. -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
