there is a substantial difference between 3 weeks and 6 months. Herb... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Dayton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Herb Chong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 8:59 PM Subject: Re[2]: Vacation snaps with an Optio?
> I sent my girls down to Brazil this past summer for about 3 weeks. > They were touring with the regional Youth Symphony here. We debated > on what direction to go - film or digital and finally decided that low > resolution digital would be fine. I made sure to get them cameras > that would take AA's and sent them with about 8 rechargeables each and > charger. One camera (Canon A10) is a 1.3MP and the other (Optio 230) > is 2MP A couple of 256MB CF cards was sufficient to store about 800 > shots at full resolution/medium compression (recommended setting). > They never had to deal with film (airport checks, etc), just took shots as they wanted, able > to review at times and not worry too much about wasting shots.