On Wednesday 21 December 2005 01.51, Tom Copp wrote: > Canon's S2 IS. There are so many out there. Look at > http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs.asp and read the timing specs for = > the camera you're interested in and pay attention to the shot to shot > specs. > Anything over 2 seconds feels like a lifetime and most P&S are that and > longer.
Absolutely! That was the reason I choose the Konica KD-500 (later complemented with the upgraded version Konica Minolta G-600), because they're fast starters. Remember also that you need a fast card to get decent speed between the shots - some cameras takes bursts of photos at one go at different settings (that you set yourself), some take decent digital films (good enough for the internet). The Olympus C-8080WZ I later bought, is also a fast starter and is absolutely fantastic indoors, but complex (menus aplenty and 21 buttons to keep track on). For studio work it is perfect and can now be found for a pittance compared to what I paid! Someone here recommended using non-digitals for the occasional photographer, and I would say exactly the reverse! If you plan to shoot a hundred pictures in one go, by all means bring your Leica, Hasselblad or your ol' Nikon, but for a few shots to send to your friends the next day, or just after they left the reunion, it is just mad and practically impossible! And even then, your negative will go through a printer on the way to a paper copy, as no developer uses a manual system nowadays. So your analog picture will be digitalized, adjusted and then printed, no matter what you think about digital technique :-(! B&W is a wee bit different, but even my wet-film friends say you can make fantastic B&W prints with your inkjet printer! But then they scan their negatives, and its all digital again! Cameras using film is at a bottom low, investment-wise, and classic manufacturers like Hasselblad are in dire straights - they were recently bought by a digital back manufacturer, thus you can now buy digital adaptors for your Sinar, Kowa, Mamiya, Rollie and others, branded Hasselblad, even though none of these backs ever were made here in Gothenburg, where all the true Hasselblad factories are! Tord RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
