Bill Hall on thu 19 oct 00
>The SONY DSC-S30 costs $499 at Sears. The 1.3 megapixels will produce an
>image 8x10 of photo quality on our Epson inkjet printer.
Sony makes several nice cameras, and they use very good lenses. 1.3
Megapixels will produce a nice 8X10, but that's about the limit. The nice
thing about having more pixels is that you can crop a picture and still have
very good quality. But that's part of the choice you can make, price vs.
total number of pixels, and price vs. features. If you're only going to
shoot pictures to put on the web, you might be happy with a camera that
shoots only 640X480. They are even more economical. I've seen 640X480
cameras that will take a dozen or so pictures before downloading for around
$200.
>Yours will do
>12x14.
I didn't mean to imply that the HP 970 will print 12X14; it will only do 8.5
X 11. I was simply saying that 3.4 megapixels will produce an image that
large without losing any quality.
>Mine won't. I can download 32 images with a USB cable in seconds
>to my laptop. There is no video. There is an LCD to edit those photos
>that you don't want to keep. It is about the size of two packs of
>cigarettes plus the lens which zooms. It also has a flash. Lots of fun
>to use and instant photos and jpegs. No disc involved.
Downloading pictures to the computer is my choice. Some people may feel more
secure if the camera puts the pictures on a CD or floppy as the Sony
Mavica's do.
Cannon also makes some very small cameras that are even smaller, the
Powershot series. I almost bought one of those tiny cameras. You could carry
it around in your pocket for thise unexpected great pictures. They make
great pictures, but don't have as many features as the larger cameras. It's
a choice you make.
Anyone considering buying a digital camera should read some reviews and
weigh the features that they want. PC Magazine recently reviewed a lot of
the new cameras. There are several digital photography magazines, also. But,
since everyone that gets ClayArt is also on the internet, you should also
know that there are internet sites that review digital cameras. Here's some
of them:
http://www.photopoint.com/dcm/index.html
http://www.pcworld.com/reviews
http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/cameraList.php3
http://www.megapixel.net/html/issueindex.html
http://www.steves-digicams.com/hardware_reviews.html
http://www.winmag.com/reviews/
http://www.mav-magazine.com
Some of these sites also have some how-to articles, too.
Most of the manufacturers have sites, too:
Toshiba http://www.toshiba.com/taisisd/dsc/products/index.htm
Canon http://www.usa.canon.com
Kodak http://www.kodak.com
Panasonic
http://www.panasonic.com/consumer_electronics/digital_imaging/index.htm
Olympus http://www.olympusamerica.com/s.asp?s=12&iss=1&p=10
Epson (This is one long link. You may have to paste it back together)
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/ProductCategory.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1433
101350.0972004695@@@@&BV_EngineID=haljdefeiikbfdlcfjgckicnf.0&Category=Produ
cts&oid=-8175
There are also home pages for JVC, Fuji, and Nikon, but I couldn't put my
hands on them. You can probably find links on the review pages above.
Digital cameras are changing fast, and they're getting better and cheaper.
Within a couple of years, consumer grade (less than $1000) will have more
resolution than 35MM. They're almost there now. The really nice thing is
that you can immediately check your pictures and delete the ones that don't
suit you. No developing cost or delay. And you can store the pictures on
CDR, which is cheap. I can get the blanks for 50 cents each any day, and
even cheaper on sale.
Bill Hall wrote:
> HP or Epson photo quality inkjets (I have a HP Deskjet 970), in
> sizes up to 12 X 14 and on good photographic paper (I like the HP and
Kodak
> papers), very few people can tell that they are not prints made from film.
>
> By the way, most of these newer cameras now have built-in USB. My Toshiba
> PDR-M70 can transfer a full 64 megabyte memory card to my PC in about a
> minute. My laptop doesn't have USB, so I have to use a card reader that
uses
> the parallel port. A full 64 megabyte card on the reader takes 15 minutes
> to transfer to the laptop.
>
> An interesting side note on the transfer problem. The Sony Mavica CD-1000
> has a built-in CDR drive. It writes pictures to a 3", 156 megabyte CDR.
> These are readable on any PC. The camera is only 2 megapixels (1600X1200,
I
> believe) but it has great optics, with a built-in 10X optical zoom. Most
of
> the latest crop of digital cameras have a 3X zoom.
>
> One downside, though, to these cameras. Except for one very expensive
Epson
> printer ($900), the prints from inkjet printers begin to fade after only a
> couple of years.
>
>
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Marcia Selsor on thu 19 oct 00
Dear Bill,
The SONY DSC-S30 costs $499 at Sears. The 1.3 megapixels will produce an
image 8x10 of photo quality on our Epson inkjet printer. Yours will do
12x14. Mine won't. I can download 32 images with a USB cable in seconds
to my laptop. There is no video. There is an LCD to edit those photos
that you don't want to keep. It is about the size of two packs of
cigarettes plus the lens which zooms. It also has a flash. Lots of fun
to use and instant photos and jpegs. No disc involved.
Marcia
Bill Hall wrote:
> HP or Epson photo quality inkjets (I have a HP Deskjet 970), in
> sizes up to 12 X 14 and on good photographic paper (I like the HP and Kodak
> papers), very few people can tell that they are not prints made from film.
>
> By the way, most of these newer cameras now have built-in USB. My Toshiba
> PDR-M70 can transfer a full 64 megabyte memory card to my PC in about a
> minute. My laptop doesn't have USB, so I have to use a card reader that uses
> the parallel port. A full 64 megabyte card on the reader takes 15 minutes
> to transfer to the laptop.
>
> An interesting side note on the transfer problem. The Sony Mavica CD-1000
> has a built-in CDR drive. It writes pictures to a 3", 156 megabyte CDR.
> These are readable on any PC. The camera is only 2 megapixels (1600X1200, I
> believe) but it has great optics, with a built-in 10X optical zoom. Most of
> the latest crop of digital cameras have a 3X zoom.
>
> One downside, though, to these cameras. Except for one very expensive Epson
> printer ($900), the prints from inkjet printers begin to fade after only a
> couple of years.
>
>
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Bill Hall on fri 20 oct 00
One more link for those interested in digital cameras. The page at
http://www.imaging-resource.com/TIPS1.HTM
has a number of articles that will help you whether you are interested in
digital cameras, or already own one.
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