[GeoStL] Re: NGR: Ask The Experts

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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

merkin wrote:

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I went digital about 5 years ago, when the technology was rather new. One of the consultants at the company I was with at the time related a similar horror story - he bought a digital camera for his honeymoon to Jamaica, but it wasn't until he got there that he realized his memory card would only hold 8 pictures. Upgrading (at that time) to a larger memory card would have run $300 or more.

I got a Sony Mavica camera early in 1999. It takes pictures directly to a floppy disc. Not the highest resolution (620 x 480 IIRC) but it's been a fantastic camera. First thing I got for it was an extra battery with a 5 hour charge time. I've taken with to places like the Huntington Library in CA and shot 400-500 pictures in an afternoon. The Sony, at the time, was about $700 and it was some of the best money I've ever spent. Very outdated by modern standards, but when I think about all the pictures of my daughter I would have missed without it....

So there's one take. You might consider one of the newer models that burns pictures directly to a mini CD. Make sure what you get has an OPTICAL zoom on it, not just a digital zoom (meaning the camera itself can zoom in on items far away, not just by cropping pixels off the image to give the illusion of zoom at the sacrifice of resolution). Memory is cheaper than it used to be - I've got a 256mg SD card for my Palm Pilot that I got at Costco for about $70. Two or three of those in your camera bag, and you'd be set for a week of backpacking through Moab.

Just a thought, one idiot to another.

Michael

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From: Greg Ponder <thehairyhillbilly@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date:  Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:00:01 -0800 (PST)



First things first: I'm ignorant (in case you were not already convinced).

With that out of the way...I am seriously considering purchasing a fairly high quality digital camera, probably in the 4-5 megapixel range. My concern is storage. I don't want to purchase a camera that "can" take hi-res pictures but then dummy it down to lo-res because my butt's on a butte in Utah and my memory card, stick or disc (or cards, sticks or discs) are full.

I don't have a laptop, but I'm considering one. It would be my storage device so that I can take the quality of picture that I desire while on my adventures.

Is that a feasible (albeit expensive) approach or are there better ways to shoot high quality digital photos without running into storage problems out in the field.

Thank ye for your input,

Greg Ponder...The Hairy Hillbilly


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