[thelist] digital camera shopping

[M. Hannan]

Beware the sub-200's...or at least expect to get what you pay for.  The 
640x480 crapameras are a shoe-in to disappoint.  If you can squeeze the 
money out of your piggybank then get at least a 1 megapixel camera...which 
is decent but not wowish.  2x megapixels are great to write home about, 3.3 
is ohmygawdlookithat.

Features and format are more important than brand name.  Standard smart 
cards are best, tiff/jpeg are better than proprietary format (don't get 
anything that's not a standard 4:3 ratio either, those are just plain 
weird).  USB is a plus.  That being said I'm partial to Olympus.

m@

<tip>
Digital cameras are great, but don't pull a pic off your your 3.3 
megagooglepixel camera onto your PIIII/6trillion and upload it to your site 
via your DSL connection then tell all your friends stuck in 56k land to 
"look at this"....chances are that a year-and-a-half later they'll see 
640x480 (or 800x600) of a dark corner of a great picture that is 6000 times 
larger than their screen resolution.
</tip>




>From: Scott Dexter <sgd at ti3.com>
>Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>To: "Evolt (E-mail)" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
>Subject: [thelist] digital camera shopping
>Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 14:42:30 -0600
>
>mildly on-topic (I'm an optimist ;) )
>
>I'm awanting a digital camera, but not a fancy schmancy print quality one
>(if I have too, I could borrow one of those from my pro-photo neighbor
>(http://sebron.com)), but a basic "hey that needs a pic!" kinda digital
>camera. I been cruising though Amazon's selections, and figger I'm in the
>subUS$200 range, any of you kids have recommendations?
>
>(making my Christmas wish-list =) )
>sgd
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