Re: slightly OT: digital camera recommendations

2004-04-21 Thread Shay Telfer
snip. The S400 has 400 megapixels in the same form factor. snip Have fun, Shay Wow! Yes, sorry, that should have read that it has '4000 kilopixels'. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Techno

Re: slightly OT: digital camera recommendations

2004-04-21 Thread Paul & Caroline van der Mey
Shay Telfer wrote: snip. The S400 has 400 megapixels in the same form factor. snip Have fun, Shay Wow!

Re: slightly OT: digital camera recommendations

2004-04-21 Thread Stephen Chape
On 21/4/04 4:13 PM, "Mark Secker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's the current opinion on a good digital camera > > For me it must fore fill the following: > > at least 3Megapixals > take readily available memory sticks up to at least 256Mb > have a real optical zoom preferably to 3x but 2 m

Re: slightly OT: digital camera recommendations

2004-04-21 Thread Craig Ringer
On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 19:06, Robert Howells wrote: > Rough Estimate :- 640 x 480 will give you reasonable snaps and 60 Kb > files suitable for emails. > Will print say 6" x 4" snap photo > You will get about 1800 of these on a 128 Mb Memory stick or similar. > Yes , eighteen hundre

Re: slightly OT: digital camera recommendations

2004-04-21 Thread Robert Howells
On Wednesday, April 21, 2004, at 05:09 PM, Mark Secker wrote: I'm hoping you mean memory cards. Memory Sticks are a proprietary Sony product (which means IMHO, they suck) well ... yeh... what I ment was... some sort of removable memory device of suitable size so I don't have to lug my lap

Re: slightly OT: digital camera recommendations

2004-04-21 Thread Mark Secker
I'm hoping you mean memory cards. Memory Sticks are a proprietary Sony product (which means IMHO, they suck) well ... yeh... what I ment was... some sort of removable memory device of suitable size so I don't have to lug my laptop around to download after 12 snaps :) I'm very happy with th

slightly OT: digital camera recommendations

2004-04-21 Thread Mark Secker
ow yeh forgot... and come in at or under $600AUD -- ~ Mark Secker Computer Support Officer ph#6488 1855 (ECEL) University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ "Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible." - Miguel de Unamuno "It

Re: slightly OT: digital camera recommendations

2004-04-21 Thread Shay Telfer
What's the current opinion on a good digital camera For me it must fore fill the following: at least 3Megapixals take readily available memory sticks up to at least 256Mb I'm hoping you mean memory cards. Memory Sticks are a proprietary Sony product (which means IMHO, they suck) have a rea

slightly OT: digital camera recommendations

2004-04-21 Thread Mark Secker
What's the current opinion on a good digital camera For me it must fore fill the following: at least 3Megapixals take readily available memory sticks up to at least 256Mb have a real optical zoom preferably to 3x but 2 might do. "stylish" or at least innocuous... I don't what anything that will