Jon Glass wrote:
Personally, while I still prefer chemical for serious stuff, I find
myself wishing I had a good digital camera. I haven't bought one yet,
because I can't afford the quality I want. :-) So, I keep shooting
chemical, being careful on what I shoot (because of the cost
On 3/31/03 3:57 PM, bramke posted:
I want to introduce myself into the world of digital photos, mainly
family snapshots for screen and webuse
I have a 8600/G3 with all PCIslots filled, and no USB available, and a
Powerbook G3 Kanga (not cardbus compliant)
snip
So what are my options ???
On 3/31/03 5:54 PM, Ryan Coleman posted:
I disagree. I work in a photolab and to get the kind of shots that are
reprintable to the size needed to match 35mm would cost you between $3500
and $7500 right now.
Stick with film, maybe get a SCSI negative scanner if you need it. But don't
go
The Minolta Dimage Scan Dual III got good reviews in MacWorld this month,
but I still like my Nikon 4000ED which has twice the resolution of the
Minolta.
Tom
on 4/6/03 12:34 PM, Ryan Coleman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 1:08 PM -0400 4/6/03, Nick wrote:
Minolta Dimage Scan Dual III
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The other option one might have is one I have become fond of. During baseball season
I can shoot anywhere from 10-20 rolls of film per day. I am using these shots for
baseball cards, magazines and 8x's that I am having signed.
Digital is fine for the cards but for prints digital is not
Well,
thank you all for the great number of replies (already 3 digest went
through before I can answer)
Seems like going with the compactflash adaptor and a digital camera that
uses these cards is, in my case, the best way because :
* cheaper than a cardreader, if I can find a SCSI-one at all
Hello all,
I want to introduce myself into the world of digital photos, mainly
family snapshots for screen and webuse, but I have run into some
problems. I need a way to get the digital pictures from the camera to the
Mac, and this is where it seems to go wrong.
I have a 8600/G3 with all
I have a 8600/G3 with all PCIslots filled, and no USB available, and a
Powerbook G3 Kanga (not cardbus compliant), and about all recent digital
cameras talk USB...
Does the G3 have FireWire available? There are FireWire readers for most
common media types, slightly more expensive than USB
bramke wrote:
I would like some real world experience and hands-on knowledge. Does
anybody use this route with digital cameras ??
My real world use of digital cameras is for listing eBay stuff and web
photos. For any quality. film's the way.
I have an older olympus D320L 1.3 mega pixel
On Monday, March 31, 2003, at 12:57 PM, bramke wrote:
For completeness :
8600/G3-450/928MBram/PCIvideo/PCIsound/PCI-IDE cards
What's the sound card for?
My setup:
8600/G3 400/bunch o RAM/PCI video card/PCI-IDE card/PCI USB card
I have an older digital camera that was serial connection only
Is there such a thing as a USB to ADB connector?
I use a Nikon coolpix 800 and download using a cardreader connected to the
USB port on my Pismo- it's really fast!
I have never used a camera so much with such creative latitude (I manipulate
the images in Photoshop 6.0) in my life. I think that
Ed Zelinsky wrote:
I think that film ($$$) and not knowing how things were looking
But I spent years studying how things would look..
--
Alan Miller
Underwater Photographer
http://home.earthlink.net/~uwphoto/
9600/233 w/ G3/400 XLR8 ZIF, 1.5 G RAM
eBay ID uwphotoer
Live each day like it
Ed Zelinsky wrote:
on 3/31/03 3:58 PM, Alan Miller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ed Zelinsky wrote:
I think that film ($$$) and not knowing how things were looking
But I spent years studying how things would look..
I did not mean to disparage film... Just a very personal reaction
Ryan Coleman wrote:
I disagree.
-- Original Message ---
From: Ed Zelinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have never used a camera so much with such creative latitude (I manipulate
the images in Photoshop 6.0) in my life. I think that film ($$$) and
not knowing how things were
bramke on 3/31/03 2:57 PM wrote:
The only option I can come up with is the use of a PCMCIA adaptor for
CompactFlash cards (or other memory cards) but I have some questions with
this :
* Pro/con of this route ??
* Is this possible in the 16bit PCMCIA slots of the Kanga ??
* Do I need special
Ed Zelinsky wrote:
Is there such a thing as a USB to ADB connector?
No.
--
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University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
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Small Dog
The PC Card Adapters work great, Cardbus or not (I have used mine - Smart
Media - on Kanga and Powerbook 5300c).
I would buy a snapshot Digital Camera using the following criteria:
1) 2 or 3 Megapixel (good enough for the occasional 8.5x11 print for
friends/family and definitely all
too valuable
these days to go without, especially if digital camera use is a
priority for you.
--Chris
iBook 700 OS X.2.4
PM 7500/200 OS 9.1
PM 4400/200 OS 8.6, NetBSD
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it up but it
did inhibit me from taking as many pictures as I might have.
That is one thing, I am taking about four times as many pictures with
the digital camera as with the film SLR. In many cases I take second
and third shots with the digital camera that I wouldn't take with the
film
.
But the liberating feeling that Ed is talking about comes from the fact
that I can take 100 pictures with my digital camera, see the results
*immediately* and toss the ones I don't want, and not worry about paying
for developing 4 or 5 rolls of film, truding off to Walgreens to drop
them off
Mark Kippert wrote:
bramke on 3/31/03 2:57 PM wrote:
The only option I can come up with is the use of a PCMCIA adaptor for
CompactFlash cards (or other memory cards) but I have some questions with
this :
* Pro/con of this route ??
* Is this possible in the 16bit PCMCIA slots of the Kanga ??
*
those places and
even make a deal on developing your film all the way here in Minneapolis.
-- Original Message ---
From: Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (G-Books)
Sent: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 16:21:44 -0700
Subject: Re: Digital camera
Ryan Coleman wrote:
I
On Monday, March 31, 2003, at 05:54 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote:
I will say this here once: Never EVER take your film to Walgreens. For
those
of you (or Proex or Walmart) here who want to see better results,
contact me
off list and I will give you the information of the lab I work in. I
can
On 03/31/2003, Ryan Coleman wrote:
I will say this here once: Never EVER take your film to Walgreens. For those
of you (or Proex or Walmart) here who want to see better results, contact me
off list and I will give you the information of the lab I work in. I can give
you reasons upon reasons of
From: Ed Zelinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (G-Books)
Sent: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:51:32 -0500
Subject: Re: Digital camera
Is there such a thing as a USB to ADB connector?
USB _to_ ADB. No.
ADB _to_ USB. Yes, and the most popular (and exceptionally well supported I
might add
On Monday, March 31, 2003, at 08:05 PM, Eric D. wrote:
That said, there is one exception to the USB-ADB thingy and I think
that
applies to some mice but that would be a three-way adaptor.
USB-PS2-ADB.
mice that support the usb-PS2 thingy actually have the circuitry for
both USB and PS2
RE; yes, griffen made one and it did work,but it gave me so many other
system problems I returned it,this was at the time the first mac came
with usb,a hockey puck and a tiny keyboard for my huge hands LOL,I
think it was called I-mate
On Monday, March 31, 2003, at 06:02 PM, Bruce Johnson
RE; My opinion, I did not repeat entire message, Anyway, I love my 2meg
digital camera,I knew little of photography,however, the ability to
shoot vast numbers of pictures and then printout only the two or three
without blemishes has just made a world of difference in useing a
camera,otherwise
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 22:11:43 -0500
Subject: Wallstreet vs Canon PowerShot camera Help
From: Norm Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What I think they are saying is I cannot use my PDQ with their camera, since
it does not have a built-in USB interface. I do have a USB PC card
installed and it works with
At 1:05 PM -0600 12/13/2002, Andrew wrote:
I would caution against putting a Smart media card into the PC card
slot.
Unlike compact flash cards smart media cards don't have any on-board
electronics and can be corrupted by being read in a MAC card slot.
I've had no problem reading SmartMedia
Clark Martin wrote:
At 1:05 PM -0600 12/13/2002, Andrew wrote:
I would caution against putting a Smart media card into the PC card
slot.
Unlike compact flash cards smart media cards don't have any on-board
electronics and can be corrupted by being read in a MAC card slot.
I've had no
At 1:58 PM -0700 12/13/2002, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Clark Martin wrote:
At 1:05 PM -0600 12/13/2002, Andrew wrote:
I would caution against putting a Smart media card into the PC card
slot.
Unlike compact flash cards smart media cards don't have any on-board
electronics and can be corrupted by
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 02:02:56PM -1000, Aron Nelson wrote:
:
: Do you have one that doesn't have any lag after shooting?
The Nikon D1X can do 9 shots in 3 seconds. The Nikon D1H is even faster.
--
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This web site answers many of the questions about permanence of color in
photographic paper and, I believe, in ink jet inks.
http://www.wilhelm-research.com/
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Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 16:00:57 -0500
Subject: Re: Good, inexpensive digital camera
From: Thomas Ethen
On 4/20/02 4:21 PM, (G-Books) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Apparently most/all Digital cameras have lag time after the shot. I
have tried many at CompUSA and Circuit City and they all had lag
after shooting.
The lag times are even parts of the review process on web sites now.
Do you have
Walter R Basil wrote:
Of course I normally shoot at the lowest quality setting for easy
transmittal over email to family., so that has an effect I am sure. When I
bump up the quality..there is more lag as it writes it to the CF I am sure.
Yeah, I just tested this with my Epson (PhotoPC 650)
Then you will have the best of both worlds! The archival property of film
and the convenience of digital.
I scan my negatives and store them on CD for distribution to others and will
scan prints for some uses, but you have much more control over digital print
quality when scanning from the
on my 2400 * 2400
dpi HP scanner, I am not even close to seeing any grain in the film.
And Fuji 800 is a much faster film than any digital camera--with
regard to any specific contrast and resolution standard.
A scan of a 35mm negative at 2400dpisq (a real 2400 not
virtual 2400) creates
These are not inexpensive digital cameras that we are talking about now! An
inexpensive 35mm film camera (less that $100) will outshoot any inexpensive
digital camera (less than $300) out there when it comes to photographic
sharpness.
Having used the D1X (5.33 Megapixel) and an EOS-1D (4.06
I find film to be one of the largest nuisances of the 20th and 21st centuries.
It's a pain to use film and film companies have nothing but themselves to blame
for not making developing easier. They should have contrived some contraption to
take your film (easy-load, which finally has made an
Thomas Ethen wrote:
These are not inexpensive digital cameras that we are talking about now! An
inexpensive 35mm film camera (less that $100) will outshoot any inexpensive
digital camera (less than $300) out there when it comes to photographic
sharpness.
Having used the D1X (5.33 Megapixel
Don't forget the archival quality of film over digital!
Tom
I do love film, much richer colors and depth, but it is too expensive, in the
long run, and just one huge hassle. In this case, I will take convenience and
price over quality and hassle. Unfortunately. However I lament.
P-
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Actually I love both digital and film and use both on a daily basis! I am
still unsure as to what will be done for storage when the digital camera
catches up with film, since the files will be incredibly large.
Tom
I'd guess that digital cameras are still 3-5 years from surpassing film
Thomas Ethen wrote:
Actually I love both digital and film and use both on a daily basis! I am
still unsure as to what will be done for storage when the digital camera
catches up with film, since the files will be incredibly large.
Tom
Austin PowersPsychedelic Holocubes, baybee!/ap
Seriously
Of all the good points you brought up, this one is the killer for me.
I was TOTALLY into my digital camera until I recently went to a party
and I wanted to take pictures FAST.
NO WAY! I got one shot off and had to wait while the damn thing took
its time getting ready for the next shot
box. I
will agree that a digital camera has some quirks but overall is a nice
replacement for the home film camera.
I was TOTALLY into my digital camera until I recently went to a party
and I wanted to take pictures FAST.
NO WAY! I got one shot off and had to wait while the damn thing took
its
That is not a basic problem of digital cameras. That is a basic problem of
the model you have.
Apparently most/all Digital cameras have lag time after the shot. I
have tried many at CompUSA and Circuit City and they all had lag
after shooting.
The lag times are even parts of the review
Speaking of expensive (:--)), has anyone tried, or seen (in person)
the new Sony DSC-F707? It received some good reviews (speed-wise)
on the dpreview.com site.
I have a house full of old 35mm Nikons from my old news photog days. Now have a
disability and am researching a move to digital. Want
Hang on to that shoe box of prints and negatives, since they will still be
usable when the digital prints are long gone. My film camera shoots 5 frames
per second, but its biggest plus compared to digital is that it turns on
instantly for photo's that show up unexpectedly, unlike all digital
Most digital cameras have a continuous shoot mode which allows you to shoot
a number of shots fairly quickly (until your buffer runs out) and then they
usually take around 7 to 10 seconds to recover and be able to do this again.
The smaller the file size the more shots that can be taken in rapid
Sony offers the DSC-S75, a 4 MP camera with a black body. It's pretty slick.
Almost got one myself, but opted for the Canon s110 Elf. I love how small
the camera is, and take it with me everywhere.
All of Sony's camera are great. The biggest advantages of the designs come
from their experiences
Kodak offers a photo CD with every roll of film you have processed by them
if you want it.
Tom
My wedding photo was shot digitally and was shared among all our guests
instantly across the country over the net. Then we mailed each guest a CD of
the full 500+ images of our wedding for 33 cents
In a message dated 4/20/02 12:29:41 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Kodak offers a photo CD with every roll of film you have processed by them
if you want it.
I hope Kodak has upgraded that service in the last year or so... I had
clients bring me their disk from Kodak expecting the scans to
Most digital cameras have a continuous shoot mode which allows you to shoot
a number of shots fairly quickly (until your buffer runs out)
Right, I have this, but this is a compromise.
Anyway, back to Powerbooks!
Aron
--
On to another topic!
Would I be better off using a remote FireWire HD or using the one in my
Pismo/400 for digital capture? If a remote, should I use the FireWire port
or a PC Card adapter for FireWire for the fastest transfer?
Tom
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://www.dpreview.com
Again, thank you for an enjoyable site.
With respect
John McKee
Jeff Lentz wrote:
I also highly recommend www.dpreview.com (no
association with me whatsoever). It's a very
comprehensive site for digital camera information.
- Jeff Lentz
Jeff Lentz wrote:
I
Also, use the paper made my the manufacturer of your printer to get the best
results from your setup.
Tom
The trick to getting really good
photos is to use photo-quality paper. I have an Epson
Stylus 650 (originally $79, got it free in a bundle),
but I use genuine Epson glossy photo paper
On Sunday, April 14, 2002 10:39 PM, Luca Rescigno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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I'm looking to get a digital camera, but I'm not sure what's good
considering how many different models are out there. I'm willing to
spend no more than $300, so what could I get in that price range that
would
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I'm looking to get a digital camera, but I'm not sure what's good
considering how many different models are out there. I'm willing to
spend no more than $300, so what could I get in that price range that
would work with FireWire (I have a Wallstreet 233 with a FireWire
cardbus)?
I'm not sure
.
Like another poster said, FireWire still cams are a rarity and is usually
reserved for digital video cams. However you can get a FireWire digital
video cam with the ability to take still photos.
Have fun,
Philip
--
I'm looking to get a digital camera, but I'm not sure what's good
considering
Luca,
I love my Coolpix 800 and there are some refurbished models left at
www.abesofmaine.com--they come with a 90 day warentee and cost around
$230- It is a 2.11 megapixel camera and that is a pretty good size. Also,
check out www.dpreview.com- it is a great digital camera review site!
Ed
On 15/04/02 11:22, patrick fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am on my third digital camera. It is a Fuji 4700 and I absolutely love it.
It has a lot of great, fine features. They have it at computergeeks for $339
and it is USB, though. And it has an optical zoom. Very sweet camera
Good point. I wonder what the answer is to that. They should be cheaper. Maybe it
is the CCD that costs so much. Still, I don't think they should cost as much as
they do. On the other hand, prices are plummeting year by year.
I don't know, maybe I'm not getting it, but still, you would
on 4/15/02 11:22 AM, patrick fisher at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am on my third digital camera. It is a Fuji 4700 and I absolutely love it.
I have the Fuji 2600 and I also love it.
GREAT 2.1 megapixel photo quality, 3x optical zoom, 16 meg card,
rechargeable batteries AND charger all
On Monday, April 15, 2002, at 09:54 , lee wrote:
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I'm looking to get a digital camera, but I'm not sure what's good
considering how many different models are out there. I'm willing to
spend no more than $300, so what could I get in that price range that
would work with FireWire (I have
Laurent Daudelin wrote:
When I see the ongoing prices for digital cameras, it strikes me that
something is still wrong. To get a good camera, not even matching a good
SLR, you will pay the price that you would pay for an advanced-amateur/pro
SLR. $1000 will almost get you the Minolta Maxxum
Since we are on the subject of Olympus cameras, I've found this on
www.macdeals.com
The D-360 and 370 are excellent budget cameras...
Olympus D-370L 1.3M digicam for $95 after coupon 11:49 am
OfficeMax.com and OfficeMax retail stores offer the Olympus D-370L
1.3-megapixel digital camera
1.3 Megapixels, I feel, is not good enough for average photograhy. For web stuff,
fine. 2.1 is kind of a minimum, I feel, to decent photography.
Still, I should get this camera for my daughter.
P
Vic Viet Duong wrote:
Since we are on the subject of Olympus cameras, I've found this on
1.3 Megapixels, I feel, is not good enough for average photograhy.
For web stuff,
fine. 2.1 is kind of a minimum, I feel, to decent photography.
The weird part is that I have seen 1.3 megapixel pictures printed out
that are great. I wonder how they do that??
I have a 2 megapixel camera and
My first digital camera was the old Apple QuickTake 7 years ago. The
resolution was 600x800, not even 1 megapixel. I was able to use it to print
fairly large architectural pictures of my models in college.
As Bruce mentioned, it's the optics, AND it's the skills of the user that
determines good
Thought I'd throw my two cents in as I just went through buying a new
camera. I settled on the 2.1 megapixel Canon A40, which I found online
for $258 (though with $20 shipping). I was a journalist just long enough
to know optics are important, and so I went with the Canon. It's an
actual
On 4/15/02 6:43 PM, (G-Books) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm looking to get a digital camera, but I'm not sure what's good
considering how many different models are out there. I'm willing to
spend no more than $300, so what could I get in that price range that
would work with FireWire (I have
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I'm looking to get a digital camera, but I'm not sure what's good
considering how many different models are out there. I'm willing to
spend no more than $300, so what could I get in that price range that
would work with FireWire (I have a Wallstreet 233 with a FireWire
cardbus)?
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