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I second the aversion to Sony cameras, which along with other Sony electronic products have taken a downturn in quality in the last few years. The Olympus digital camera line on the other hand is wonderful, with sharp clear accurate colors and amazing detail in the photos. A cheap ($25-35) USB card reader gets the photos into the computer quickly. You put the camera's little memory chip (called a Smartmedia card) into the slot in the reader and it pops up on your computer's desktop as another drive, with all the photos on it; you can move the pictures over to the computer's hard drive from there. A used Olympus 2020 would be great, or a 3030 or the new 4040, all great cameras with remote control, zoom lenses, and macro settings for extreme closeups of flowers, bugs, etc. These cameras come with a USB cable to plug into the computer, but I've never used it and like the card reader instead. The reader will transfer each photo into the computer in a matter of seconds. I used an Olympus 3030 to take pictures of some of my oil paintings to put them up on my art website at http://www.nmia.com/~jaybird/, and you can take a look there if you want to see examples of what these cameras can do. And those are only low-resolution pictures for the web. You should see 8 X 10 prints out of an inkjet printer such as an Epson 1280--they are stunning! They put film cameras to shame. A $50 128-meg Smartmedia card will hold 160 photos suitable for sharp 8 X 10's, or more if you lower the resolution setting. Never buy film again! I predict that you will greatly enjoy the world of digital photography. I have a closetful of 35mm and medium-format cameras that I haven't used since I bought the digital cameras. Tom At 12:38 AM -0400 01/01/1904, KurtWAppling wrote: >re: an installed USB card should be fine, the drivers are included,however >USB-2 is not supported until OSX the card will only work as USB-1 ,that >said,,I dont like sony'' for many reasons,''' as for compatability,and >quality I can say nikon is very good,Im sure there are others as well , but >I dont have them to know. hope this helps > > > >on 8/20/02 1:13 AM, Donald Parsons at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Greetings Y'all, >> I have a beige G3 DT, 300mhz, 512MB RAM with OS 9.0.4, and with an >> Adaptec USB 2 PCI card (actually not yet installed). I am in the market >> for my first digital camera and wonder, what is compatible with this >> configuration for consistent reliable downloads of the digital pictures? >> >> In inquiry at online photo shops and supply outlets under the >> specfications a number of cameras indicate that they interface on Macs >> with USB port , but then in parenthesis (models with built-in USB >> port). I am assuming that may mean "not USB PCI card port". Anyone have >> experience with this? >> >> A really neat new Sony digital camera ( Sony MVC-CD400) which has a >> removable small CD disk recording media specifically says "(models with >> built-in USB port) and Mac OS 10.0 but not 10.1". Which seems weird, I >> guess no one has bothered to upgrade the camera software? >> >> Any suggestions from successful experience is appreciated. I can just >> afford a camera and not a G4 machine to look at the pictures at this >> time. Thanks. >> Don -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
