Digital Camera Advice
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Hey Guys! I am looking to buy a digital camera (I am looking at Cannon right now). My friend advised me to get a 3 micropixel one or something - does anyone understand this stuff? Jeremy. "Hey man, Taliban, Tali me Banana."
I have an Olympus D-490 and I really like it. Its highest resolution is 1600x1200 and it has a 3X optical zoom. The pictures it takes are very, very good. It has been updated to the model D-510 (I think it is) which now has a USB interface. I highly recommend Olympus. A friend has a Nikon that is very impressive also. It has a standard 35mm lense fitting so he can put enormous telephoto lenses on it which is kind of nice. It is considerably more expensive than the one I have though. You can see some of the photos I have taken at my home page. Click on the "Our Photos" link and the shots on the lower right column are all from the Olympus. The Ten Commandments For C Programmers
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Hey Guys! I am looking to buy a digital camera (I am looking at Cannon right now). My friend advised me to get a 3 micropixel one or something - does anyone understand this stuff? Jeremy. "Hey man, Taliban, Tali me Banana."
As far as Canons go, I like the Powershot S330 Digital Elph. Very shagadelic. Jon Sagara Red Swingline Staplers
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I have an Olympus D-490 and I really like it. Its highest resolution is 1600x1200 and it has a 3X optical zoom. The pictures it takes are very, very good. It has been updated to the model D-510 (I think it is) which now has a USB interface. I highly recommend Olympus. A friend has a Nikon that is very impressive also. It has a standard 35mm lense fitting so he can put enormous telephoto lenses on it which is kind of nice. It is considerably more expensive than the one I have though. You can see some of the photos I have taken at my home page. Click on the "Our Photos" link and the shots on the lower right column are all from the Olympus. The Ten Commandments For C Programmers
Rick York wrote: has a 3X optical zoom Thats a feature that kinda confuses me... where is the difference between optical and digital zoom... I assume optical is the actual lense used and digital would be something like you would experience when zooming a picture in windows paint or something...? If this is the case why would you require digital zoom period...? "An expert is someone who has made all the mistakes in his or her field" - Niels Bohr
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Rick York wrote: has a 3X optical zoom Thats a feature that kinda confuses me... where is the difference between optical and digital zoom... I assume optical is the actual lense used and digital would be something like you would experience when zooming a picture in windows paint or something...? If this is the case why would you require digital zoom period...? "An expert is someone who has made all the mistakes in his or her field" - Niels Bohr
Hockey wrote: why would you require digital zoom period for the same reason the APS cameras offer a "panoramic" mode. in reality, they just mask the top and bottom of the image, giving you a wide but short picture. but, people like to think they are getting something special and magical. digital zoom makes them think their camera is some kind of hi-tech sattelite spy camera. :) -c
Though the cough, hough and hiccough so unsought would plough me through, enough that I o'er life's dark lough my thorough course pursue. --Stuart Kidd
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Hey Guys! I am looking to buy a digital camera (I am looking at Cannon right now). My friend advised me to get a 3 micropixel one or something - does anyone understand this stuff? Jeremy. "Hey man, Taliban, Tali me Banana."
Canon S30 (3.32 M) - one of the best on the market in its category... Rich
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Hey Guys! I am looking to buy a digital camera (I am looking at Cannon right now). My friend advised me to get a 3 micropixel one or something - does anyone understand this stuff? Jeremy. "Hey man, Taliban, Tali me Banana."
Check out http://www.steves-digicams.com/ for good reviews, I have a Fuji 2800, best bang-for-buck camera around IMHO, a little weak for shots at night though.
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Hockey wrote: why would you require digital zoom period for the same reason the APS cameras offer a "panoramic" mode. in reality, they just mask the top and bottom of the image, giving you a wide but short picture. but, people like to think they are getting something special and magical. digital zoom makes them think their camera is some kind of hi-tech sattelite spy camera. :) -c
Though the cough, hough and hiccough so unsought would plough me through, enough that I o'er life's dark lough my thorough course pursue. --Stuart Kidd
Chris Losinger wrote: digital zoom makes them think their camera is some kind of hi-tech sattelite spy camera. Thats what I thought... "An expert is someone who has made all the mistakes in his or her field" - Niels Bohr
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Canon S30 (3.32 M) - one of the best on the market in its category... Rich
I second that. Easy to use and powerful, with enough bells and whistles to be more than just a point and shoot camera. Quality is excellent and of course those you do stuff up you just delete. In 6 months I have taken nearly 5000 photos - predominantly of my kids :) I have been luck enough to capture some magic photos of my kids! Only thing it lacks is a flip out screen. If you can afford one then consider getting it. Occassionally outside the screen can be a little hard to see - the flip screen doesn't have this problem. Checkout all the sites mentioned above, they are an excellent resource. Richard.
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Chris Losinger wrote: digital zoom makes them think their camera is some kind of hi-tech sattelite spy camera. Thats what I thought... "An expert is someone who has made all the mistakes in his or her field" - Niels Bohr
I use digital zoom quite a bit. My camera has a 1600x1200 res, but I usually only take pictures at 1024x768, so the digital zoom is taking advantage of the extra resolution that wouldn't get used otherwise. Also, I tend to resize pics down to 640x480 for web use, so again using zoom on the camera to frame the picture well when it's taken is much easier than taking a huge hi-res pic and cropping it in software -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
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Hey Guys! I am looking to buy a digital camera (I am looking at Cannon right now). My friend advised me to get a 3 micropixel one or something - does anyone understand this stuff? Jeremy. "Hey man, Taliban, Tali me Banana."
I've got a Canon Ixus V and am very happy with the picture quality. It's max res is 1600x1200 (quoted as 2.1 megapixels), which is high enough to produce good quality photo sized prints (tho I rarely print images out, prefering to keep them on my computer and on the web) probably the best advice is to buy a digital camera from a company known for making good cameras, not one known for making cheap electronics. If you want to see examples of pics, follow the link in my sig, and look at the Photos page -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
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Hey Guys! I am looking to buy a digital camera (I am looking at Cannon right now). My friend advised me to get a 3 micropixel one or something - does anyone understand this stuff? Jeremy. "Hey man, Taliban, Tali me Banana."
My wife has a Canon PowerShot G2, and loves it! It's a four (4) megapixel camera with a great lens. The LCD on the back can twist and rotate independent of the camera body, and it even came with a remote control so that you can take group pictures, with yourself in the group, without using a timer! -- Paul "I drank... WHAT?"