Yes and no.
I might accept the quality and process, but I'll invest to gain efficiency in
using the digital, gains in quality and process will be extras.
Here are a just few areas where I expect progress to make this camera obsolete
for me, viewer(ing) as LCD is next to useless outdoors, precis
At 11:39 24/06/01, Isaac wrote:
>Then you're using the wrong rechargeable... The newer NIMH batteries
>should last significantly longer than alkalizes in digital cameras. Of
>course, that is a small amount of money as compared to whole package.
I haven't tried them for a while, rechargeable bat
> I expect to recover all my costs in a couple of
> years --- with a lot of added benefits on the archiving side ---
> just as the
> camera becomes obsolete and I have to buy a new one.
Why would a camera become obsolete? If it is still doing what you want it to
do, then it's not obsolete. Just li
d that for
snaps, it works very well. It hasn't replaced my film cameras at all, but
it does have a niche.
Bruce Dayton
Sacramento, CA
- Original Message -
From: "Isaac Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 10:23
Cost isn't the only comparison. With my cheap, (ok only relatively),
film scanner 35 mm film gives me approximately 9 Megapixels worth of data
vs the
current best, (the upcoming Pentax and Contax full frame 35mm), digital
cameras 6
Megapixels. This doesn't approach the actual data stored in th
Jon Hope wrote:
>
> At 01:23 24/06/01, Isaac wrote:
>
> >To be fair, you weren't using it with ideal accessories. Nobody doing
> >real shooting uses an 8 meg card. I know you weren't going to shell out
> >the bucks for a high capacity card just to test, but they do pay for
> >themselves quickly.
Based on my experience, you quite correct. Three sets of rechargeables and lots of
extras put together a system that will do about 80 to 90 percent of what I can get
out of my screw mount equipment. When I travel, film is still a real handy way of
avoiding storage limits and downloading requireme
At 01:23 24/06/01, Isaac wrote:
>To be fair, you weren't using it with ideal accessories. Nobody doing
>real shooting uses an 8 meg card. I know you weren't going to shell out
>the bucks for a high capacity card just to test, but they do pay for
>themselves quickly... The use of good rechargeabl
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