Hi everyone
I hope the person who first asked about digi-camera info isn't too
confused! I suggest buy a modestly-priced one and learn from it (keep in
mind it's not just a camera, it is computer hardware - and you might need
cables, photo-memory thingies, batteries perhaps, and software). My
favourite camera store sells both digital and mechanical, and gave me good
advice when I bought my digital camera.
For a *lace* tool, the decision to buy a digital camera was a good one.
I use it more than I would have thought, the main factor being the
immediate results. I use it to examine a piece of antique lace, where
the screen resolution is easier for me to see than a magnifying glass.
I can then print a picture (in black and white to save ink) and draw on
it, or snail mail it to someone. I use the digital camera to record how
I am making a piece of lace - easier to snap a pic with the digital
camera than to try to take a scan of the lace-on-pillow-in-progress (it
can be done, with a lot of pinning, or, as someone I know did, getting a
helper to flip the scanner over - which I don't think I'd recommend),
and faster than waiting to get a film developed. I use the camera a lot
at lace places - meetings, exhibits and it is fun to share the pictures
by e-mail soon after.
For printing - I bought a new lace toy/tool - a photoprinter. It is even
cheaper than the digital camera I bought. At first I thought the cost of
the inks would outweigh the benefits - but I'm really pleased with it,
too and because we can be selective in what we print, it is quite
economical. Saves me a lot of time and bother in waiting for films to be
developed, not to mention the scads of dud photos and their negatives -
can't part with them for some reason (???). (I do have a roll of film in
the SLR though - sometimes it is just 'better" to take a photo where I
can control the settings, the particular lens, etc.).
I think of the digital camera and printer as the darkroom back with the
photographer - the way it was when photography was first popular, but
without the chemical mess. Ok, I wasn't around in the early days of
photography, LOL - it was a requisite to do darkroom work when I was a wee
science student.
bye for now
Bev in Sooke BC (on a clear day on the west coast of Canada)
Cdn. floral bobbins
www.woodhavenbobbins.com
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