Not that the picture quality and features aren't good with the camera, it is just the performance hit you take while the disk is spinning up and writing, as well as the bloated camera size. It is nice to have a digital camera that will slip into a shirt pocket or fishing vest.
"Digital Film" (the term used for the various kinds of flash memory cards) is getting very inexpensive and will only get cheaper. When I first bought a Nikon 950 Nikon charged $300.00 for a 64 megabyte Compact Flash card, so recording to a CD made a lot of sense. I just saw a 256 megabyte card at Sam's club tonight for $45.00, so things have changed dramatically! Higher capacities and lower costs are just around the corner. And you can still archive all of your pictures on CD if you want to and have a CD burner.
The best digital camera review website I have found is here:
http://www.steves-digicams.com
You can find his review of the Mavica CD500 at:
http://www.steves-digicams.com/2003_reviews/cd500.html
I just recently did some extensive research to buy a five mega-pixel digital camera and settled on the Pentax Optio 550 which can be purchased online for around $499.00. I bought it mostly because it had the features I wanted. Most digital camera's now days take great pictures, but features can be important.
Check out the website. Once you figure out how to navigate it you will find just about anything you would want to know (including sample pictures) of just about every camera on the market.
Tom Davenport
On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 08:29 PM, Bill & Tina wrote:
I use an Okuma Integrity 5/6 for trout. The one pictured here:
http://www.graysharborcomputer.com/flyfish/images/quinault3/rod.jpg The reel
itself feels really nice and I like the large arbor. The reels drag is sort
of a drag. It just doesn't feel really smooth to me. Other than that I'll
keep using it until something else comes along. For trout it seems to mostly
just hold line anyway. Oh, it does take a good beating and I've never had a
problem when I got it in sand and stuff. My $0.02
Hey folks I'm thinking on getting a new camera... I've taken all of my photo's on an old Sony Mavica FD-71. See photo's here: http://www.graysharborcomputer.com/flyfish/adventure.htm Does anybody have any experience with the Sony MVC-CD500? I like the storage! Input?
Bill P.
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