Camera, what to buy

[glennmac]

There is no truth; there is only evidence. The evidence show that Bird has posted pictures and has a signature. By the way, whatever happened to that other creature that was on your bucket before I disappeared for a month. I couldnt even tell what it was. A lamb or an armadillo or an owl or something. What's the state bird of Texas anyway.

 

[Bird]

Glenn, I don't recall any other creature on my bucket (is it my memory or yours that's slipping)?/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif And the state bird is the mockingbird.

 

[shade2u2]

I have a Nikon Coolpix 950 (now = 995 I think). It takes fantastic pictures. It can be easy for my wife to use, but also has enough custom settings to keep me confused for quite a while. I don't think that I use but a small amount of the capabilities that the camera has.
Overall, I would try to get all the optical zoom that you can afford, but not get to wrapped up into digital zoom as far as picture quality. With all the increases in pixels, this is probably changing.
Also = back up your photos immediately - I learned the hard way /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

 

[Bird]

I have a Nikon 35 mm camera and Nikon binoculars, so I like Nikon products; however, the Olympus digital camera was a lot cheaper, and that was a consideration at the time I bought one./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[Bird]

Hoss, that 3.5" floppy was the primary reason I wanted the Sony; didn't want to have to get to the back of the computer to hook up cables to transfer pictures. However, when I bought the Olympus (came with cables), I also bought the Flash Path adapter, so I've still never used the cables. A bit expensive, but it's worked very well so far.

This is certainly an old thread. But way back when, someone (might not have been on TBN) told me he didn't like that Flash Path adapter (a SanDisk Flash Path Floppy Disk Adapter for SmartMedia) because it contained two batteries and they had to be replaced too often. Well, mine was 6 years old 3 days ago, it's the only way I've ever transferred photos from the camera to the computer, and sure enough, today I had to change the batteries for the first time. There are two CR2013 3V Lithium batteries and I'd never even opened the compartments to look at them until today when it failed to work. Incidentally, I'm still using the original four AA Maxell Nickel Metal Hydride batteries in the camera. I do alternate them with four Rayovac Ultra rechargeables, but the Maxells last longer between charges.

 

[ronjhall]

WOW!
This is an old thread.
I wonder if the new batteries will last as long?

 

[mikim]

WOW!
This is an old thread.
yeah - but we've been around long enough to remember it from it's start ... so what's that make you? ( I quit getting older and decided to just get better instead)

 

[Cottonhawk]

I imagine that the digital camera technology has moved on and very different from since 2001. The battery have also improved since then.

 

[jinman]

This is certainly an old thread. But way back when, someone (might not have been on TBN) told me he didn't like that Flash Path adapter (a SanDisk Flash Path Floppy Disk Adapter for SmartMedia) because it contained two batteries and they had to be replaced too often. Well, mine was 6 years old 3 days ago, it's the only way I've ever transferred photos from the camera to the computer, and sure enough, today I had to change the batteries for the first time. There are two CR2013 3V Lithium batteries and I'd never even opened the compartments to look at them until today when it failed to work. Incidentally, I'm still using the original four AA Maxell Nickel Metal Hydride batteries in the camera. I do alternate them with four Rayovac Ultra rechargeables, but the Maxells last longer between charges.

Hey Bird, that other person may have been me. I bought one of those SanDisk SmartMedia adapters for our camera at work and the batteries didn't last that long. Of course, it transferred thousands and thousands of pictures before the batteries died. Now, we just keep a USB adapter attached and transfer pictures much faster with power coming from the computer. The Flash Path adapter just sits unused in the camera case, but it would probably still work if we really needed it.

 

[Bird]

Cotton, if the newer batteries last any longer, they'll outlast me. I bought the camera and that adapter at Circuit City, so that's where I went to get new batteries for the adapter. They didn't have any that size, so I went to Radio Shack. The original batteries were "Toshiba" brand.

And Jim, the cables directly to the computer are undoubtedly best, especially if you have large quantities of pictures to transfer. This camera came with 3 cables; a "video cable", an "RS232C PC serial cable", and a "conversion connector for Apple Macintosh computer"; none of which are USB, of course. Now I really didn't care because the computer I was using at the time had no USB ports anyway. I bought the camera in January '01 and didn't get this computer until August '01.