Testing cheap digital camera

[jinman]

...now let me see if I remember this correctly from the days when I worked on a Univac 1218/1219. If the machine has only the capability to subtract, you complement and then subtract and it's the same as adding. Hmmm, breathing diesel has made my brain a little fuzzy on this. Perhaps for remediation I need to go run an IBM card sorter for a few days to clear out the cobwebs./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Patrick, I think the reason your camera sold in OK for $50 and in NY for $90 is obvious. OK $$$ are worth almost twice as much as NY $$$. Don't you agree?/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif I'm sure John Miller III will agree....NOT!

As I had guessed, it seems you have your file management under control. It will just get worse. With some things I lose interest over time, but with digital photography, I take more pictures as time goes on. I also burn many CDs like SKENT. It's surely nice to not have to deal with a processing lab./w3tcompact/icons/cool.gif

JimI

 

[patrickg]

John,

Lets see, is it better never than late or better late than never? My $50 camera was originally $80 at Wallmart not $90. Wonder why? That is over 10% difference. I wonder if Wallmart has a policy like some stores to refund the diff or diff plus if you find it cheaper elsewhere and would another Wallmart qualify as elsewhere?

Patrick

P.S. Interestingly my step-grandfather on my mother's side was John Miller.

 

[s1120]

John,
Thats one of the joys of living in NY.

 

[JohnMiller3]

Ok Patrick, See what you started.../w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

My cheapo $50. digital camera by DLink DSC-350 @ Staples...

"You are what you eat, drink, think, say and do..."

 

[JohnMiller3]

"You are what you eat, drink, think, say and do..."

 

[JohnMiller3]

JD Telescopic draft links...

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[JohnMiller3]

That's all folks.../w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

"You are what you eat, drink, think, say and do..."

 

[patrickg]

Most cool, John, a real working tractor not some light weight sheet metal in the silouhette of a tractor wrapped around a lawnmower. Please give full details on camera, pixels, resolution, removable media, fixed or auto focus, batts, down load interface(s) and so forth. Was it a closeout or special or can I reliably direct someone there to get one?

I'm more gladder all the time I started this thread. Previous pix were using "fine" res, here is one using "normal", which alows for 32 shots (rather than 16) New house for my mom. Water to right of house is same pond as immediately to the left of house. Look closely about 2/3 way up end of house. If you see the blue patch even with the eave of the house on the back side, you are seing yet another pond. Farther to the left is a much smaller pond, maybe 1/2 acre but produces 6-7 lb bass.

The crop circle looking thingie was me and the box blade reducing the size of a hill that doesn't show up as a hill so good. We need 3D or aerial photo to see the place. On the other side of the crop circle going toward the house it is about200-250 ft to house from the crop circle (15 -20ft above grade at front door, near center, but on camera it looks like it is right there. Between crop circle and house is large swale I cut with box blade. It drains this area from left to right exiting off camera.

Strange perspective. Looks like a doll house in the picture. It is 70 ft by 26 ft., a 3 Bed 3 Bath 1820 sqft. Trust me I didn't put a tiny model house out in front of the camera on thin monofilament to fake this shot.

Patrick

 

[Anonymous Poster]

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Digital Camera-On sale this week @ Staples for $99. with a $50. rebate = Net Cost $ 49.00

The D-Link DSC-350 Dual-Mode Camera is a multi-purpose Digital Camera with a high speed USB (Universal Serial Bus) interface. The DSC-350 is a three-in-one solution that combines the features of a digital still capture camera with a digital video camera and a PC WebCam wrapped into one convenient pocket size device. With twice as much imaging memory as any other digital camera in its class, it can store up to 145 still images at a resolution of 640x480 or up to 4.5 minutes of video. The USB interface makes it easy to connect the DSC-350 digital camera to a PC to download stored images or video for later editing. Then the user can switch to WebCam mode and capture images, create video e-mails, videoconference directly from the PC.

The D-Link DSC-350 includes 8 megabytes of Flash memory, and has multiple still capture resolution settings, which range from up to 1024x768* resolution for high quality digital still images to 640x480, 320x240, and 160x120. The DSC-350 also supports video with 24-Million colors at 30 Frames per second by using the high bandwidth of USB and advanced light-sensing technology. As a fully contained unit, no video capture card or additional hardware is necessary. The unit simply attaches via a standard USB type A connector to a PC or downstream USB hub, and sits on the monitor or desk top with its tilt-swivel base.

Complete Digital Camera Spec’s
{spec’s from the Web}

 

[RobS]

I don't know John, the image is a little... muddy /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif