- I wasn't advocating the Sony - just trying to explain my line of thinking when I bought it. There's far, far better on the market now, but we still use the Sony on a regular basis. But, at this point, I'm willing to let my daughter carry it and take pictures as long as she's got the strap around her neck. (She's up to about a 40% keep ratio.) The most important thing to do, IMHO, is do your research, make your purchase, and then STOP SHOPPING. If you don't, you'll see something down the road that's way better and costs less money. Stick with your decision for a while, and get something that you think you can live with for a couple of years. Mike ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Bernie <happykraut@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 18:45:10 -0600 >- > Greg, I would strongly advise against buying the Sony with the >floppys. At high resolution you can not even get one picture per floppy. >My Sony F717 takes a memory stick, which by the way can also be used on >my palm. It takes a little over 2 M per picture. A floppy is 1.44M. If >you can afford it, a lap top is the only way to go. In the evening after >shooting tons of pictures I download the pics unto my lap top, then when >I get a big bunch of pics, then I burn them to a CD. I agree with Merkin >on getting a camera with optical zoom. 10x if you can find one. Another >nice thing with the lap top you can hook your GPS to it and it shows a >little car where you are located. Shopping around on the web will get >you a very reasonable price on the memory sticks. Bernie > **************************************************************************** Our WebPage! Http://WWW.GeoStL.com Mail List Info. http://www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=geocaching Mail List FAQ's: http://www.freelists.org/help/questions.html **************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list: send an email to geocaching-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field