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| Subject: | Re: Digital camera's. Do's and dont's. |  |
| Date: | Dec 8, 2002 |
| From: | Paul Roberts | |
Remember, you asked...
>I'm buying a digicamera and one purpose for it would be taking pics of
>models. Does any of you have any suggestions?
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Well, I recently bought a 2nd hand Sony Mavica FD71 and I did so for
several reasons, knowing the shortcomings beforehand.
Pro:
really close Macro lens (~2 cm)
10 x optical zoom
takes 3.5" floppies for memory
manual focus when you want it.
Con:
rather large compared to new cameras (but understandable since it has to
fit the 3.5" floppy)
poor resolution, only 640 x 480 or less.
The pictures I get out are very reasonable for posting to the net and
viewing on my PC and I don't mind the poor quality if printed, as I
never print them.
Big thing is the storage. When I go to a museum it isn't uncommon for me
to shoot 15 rolls of film and the first time I want to a vehicle rally,
I shot 23 floppies of pictures at 20 shots per floppy. There is no way I
could afford that in terms of Memory Sticks or Flash cards, so the coach
was sort made for me.
I have used a really nice AGFA digital from my work and the photo
quality is definitely better, however it just will _not_ do macro
photos, so its pretty useless to me as are most digitals that are built
like instamatics and designed to take good family snapshots, but have
very little flexibility. The 10x zoom is really nice on vacation, its
about the same as a 400 mm lens.
This camera has performed exactly as I had expected. The photos are
adequate for my purposes and the shortcomings are as expected. I have
not put away my film camera, because there are just some things that I
want that the FD-71 will not do, on the other hand, you can't beat 20
rolls of film worth of pretty good photos for next to nothing.
My 2 cents Canadian and worth probably less than that...
Paul
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 | Digicamera suggestions? - Niko Asposalo - Dec 8, 2002 |
| . . . Digital camera's. Do's and dont's. - Marcel Jussen - Dec 8, 2002 |
| . . . . . . Re: Digital camera's. Do's and dont's. - Paul Roberts - Dec 8, 2002 |
| . . . Re: Digicamera suggestions? - Andy Herbert - Dec 8, 2002 |
| . . . Re: Digicamera suggestions? - Christophe Jacquemont - Dec 9, 2002 |
| . . . Thanks everyone:) Re: Digicamera suggestions? - Niko Asposalo - Dec 9, 2002 |
| . . . Re: Digicamera suggestions? - Adam Vukich - Dec 9, 2002 |
| . . . Re: Digicamera suggestions? - john - Dec 9, 2002 |
| . . . How much do you want to spend???? - Pekka Nieminen - Dec 9, 2002 |
| . . . Re: Digicamera suggestions? - Chris Monck - Dec 10, 2002 |
| . . . Don't forget harware to back up photos! - Ken Hartlen - Dec 10, 2002 |
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