Digital Photography

Bradey · Oct 24, 2000

Yes, the Canon even throws in the AC adapter, which I believe is still an option with Nikons. The Nikon CoolPix 880 also offers a lithium battery, but not a recharger/rechargeable battery. Its stock, non-rechargeable battery runs something like $10 a pop.

With the CoolPix 950 and 990, if you wanted to, you could carry extra AA batteries or buy them at a local store for a little less $$, if you were away from recharger or didn't have spare rechargeables. I'm not saying this is a big plus, just a little different. I'd take lithiums anyday. I have Infolithiums with my Sony camcorder.

glennmac · Oct 24, 2000

The Canon also lets you store picture is something called RAW instead of TIFF. Takes up only about 15% of the TIFF space.

Larry, would you go for a 1 gig microdrive or the 500 or 256?

The Nikon has something the reviewers like called Best Shot Selector. I wonder how valuable that is. I dont think the Canon or Olympus have it.

Bradey · Oct 24, 2000

Oops, I should have said the Nikon 880 offers a recharger/rechargeable lithium as an OPTION not standard (much to the chagrin of reviewers).

Glenn, with the RAW format, I would assume you would need to convert photos to TIFF for other users to read. Perhaps all these cameras require that proprietary software be loaded before you can hook them up to just anybody's USB port and transfer files. The RAW format allows post-processing and is what reviewers like those at Steve's Digicams are promoting.

Check out following link for more on storage:
http://www.steves-digicams.com/high-capacity_storage.html
I guess (some) microdrives take more power than other forms of storage. The 1G drive supposedly takes less.

Larry, what sort of battery life is Powershot G1 getting? I know it was always a concern with the Nikon 950 when I used it. I believe it used rechargeable alkaline, which are fairly cheap however, but not long-lived.

Anonymous Poster · Oct 24, 2000

Glenn,
The 1 gig.
On the advice of way-too-many oldtimers in computer-graphics , who have way-too-many years of experience (for ME at least) to argue with, I "max-out" any storage capabilities of my e-equipment. (512 meg ram in my Imac SE-DV, for example)... never been sorry.

I am not wealthy, but looking at expected increased use and savings on film, batts, developing, etc, I don't find it hard to justify the (+/-) $400-500 for the Microdrive. (Not to mention the convenience of "nothing to worry about except the photography" all day long). Download/recharge at night, and you're ready to go again! Sounds good to me.

Re. "Best Shot": Unless you're storage limited (no Microdrive or very high use-rate), I will decide in a less-hurried manner what my "keepers" are, and create my own varied "versions" of the shot, to choose from, in Photoshop.

Anonymous Poster · Oct 24, 2000

Glenn (cont'd)
Sorry,... clicked on "continue" instead of "back" while proof-reading.

I meant to add that the RAW file sounds very good to me .
I plan to burn c-ds with the raw file for future manipulation as desired. Yamaha has a hot new CD-RW in the pipeline (December?). My 12 or 13 gig hard drive is full now, so I am "stalled" until I get the CD-RW.

Larry

jimmoore · Dec 19, 2000

Re: Speaking of digital photos...

SANTA COMES EARLY. Santa in the form of a UPS driver came to my house this afternoon.He brought me a digital camera,Ohboy!! It is a Polaroid PDC700. It has an internal memory for 25 pics at 640X480 and a disc that will hold 95 pics at 640X480. My little sister in Fresno Ca. sent it to me. She is always wanting pictures and now I can send them to her E-mail. And I won't have to be borrowing a camera all the time. If I am good next year maybe a scanner? jim

Harv · Dec 19, 2000

Re: Speaking of digital photos...

Jim -

Congrats on the new camera! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

I'm sure we're all looking forward to seeing more picts of you and your Ford, your implements, your antics. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

RobS · Dec 20, 2000

... just testing the mightiest 790 signature (thanks Harv!)...

Rob

Harv · Dec 20, 2000

Rob -

Something vaguely familiar about your signature block. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Amazing what you can do with a little <font color=green>touch-up</font color=green> paint.

I like it. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif