[TechAssist] Re: Digital camera preferences? (wifey awaits!)
- From: "Damon" <DAMON101@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 08:17:06 -0500
Well I guess everybody has an opinion, especially regarding brand names and
optics.....
So here's mine: I like Kodak, good price, good quality, GOOD Name, been in
business for over 70 years, has optical zoom, various flash styles,
excellent color, etc. etc.
I'm surprised Jorge didn't have this name on his list. I've got 2 of them.
Damon Brunger
Telrad Electronic Services
Ft Wayne, IN 46815
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jorge Camboni" <geo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 3:39 PM
Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Digital camera preferences? (wifey awaits!)
>
>
> The first thing you must take into account is that you are buying
> a PHOTO CAMERA.Silly as it may sound, you must strive for
> the best camera for the money, and it begins by the LENSES
> A 3 to 1 zoom is good enough provided you are not a telephoto fan,
> then you might like the 10:1 zoom (Olympus has one medium cost
> camera with that feature). DIGITAL ZOOMS ARE USELESS, that's
> not the way, you trade focal length X resolution (lousy trade)
> Next is the overall quality, I mean, fine definition, color quality,
> noise figure with low light, ease of operation, features like
> external flash capabilities, manual controls, etc.
> To make it short you're restricted to Canon, Nikon, Olympus
> Sony and Fuji, in that order. Unless you browse each and
> every review on the internet and find something else
> cheap and good........
> PIXEL WISE IS MUCH EASIER. If you're not going by
> any means larger than 8X10 with no cropping at all, you
> may get as low as 2.1 megapixels, and NOTHING LESS
> In that class you have the Fuji 2700 around 200 bucks,
> and I think it is the ABSOLUTE MINIMUN if you do not
> want to buy a toy..
> If you want to go bigger enlargements, or just to be
> able to do some cropping on your photos, you'd
> better go to 4 megs, to be on the safe side, and it is not
> so expensive, I would reccomend the Canon powershot
> G2, just read the reviews around, you can't go wrong
> with that camera, everybody finds it perfect, and besides,
> you will never feel you bought something that turned up
> to be almost useless after a short time..
> But you have to search for yourself, I mean, if you
> make a deep search on the Internet, or wherever,
> you' ll end up finding some very convenient prices
> for what you need.
> In fewer words: DO NOT GO BELOW 2 MEGAPIXELS
> buy OPTICAL zoom
> Preferably, buy Canon, Nikon, Olympus
> Sony or Fuji (Fuji only on low MP/Low price)
> Consider the size of the enlargemens and the kind
> of lens you want.
> Search thoroughly for prices.
> Avoid the ones with a hig MP figure and toy
> body/lens - OPTICS COUNT FIRST
>
> I use a 5.1 MP Sony with pretty good optics and I am pretty
> satisfied with it, thoug it could stand some improvement in
> flash operation. But it is out of your price range, and I am
> pretty sure you do not need those 5 megapixels.
>
> Any question, email me
> cheers
> Jorge
>
>
>
>
> At 10:12 a.m. 05/05/03 -0400, Philip Bader
<tjanphyl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> >Wifey is wanting a digital camera.
> >So many choices and options. Some have movie modes with and without
> >sound.This is not a necessity as we have a VHS-C camcorder.(movies on
> >these digitals are not the best anyway)
> >She wants to make and print out photos mostly of family and pets for
> >keepsake albums for the rest of the family. She has two nice HP
> >printers, photo quality.
> >The PC is 1.8 GHz P4, 256 Megs, (with CDRW),etc and several USB ports.
> >I don't want to go 500-600 bucks.Memory and pixels seems to be the thing
> >here especially doing better quality photos for prints.Some use
> >proprietary memory,I think.Some are more costly than others.
> >Dock stations,or not...
> >Macro for close ups?
> >Number of pictures per session...
> >I'm lost.
> >I need your considered opinions.Will print them and present them to the
> >"boss".
> >many thanks.
> >Phil Bader
> >--
> >Philip Bader
> >Jan Phyl TV Inc. (estab. 1976)
> >3420 Recker Hwy. Winter Haven, Fl. 33880
> >Fax (863) 299-8821
> >email: tjanphyl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
>
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