Totally OT -advice on digital camera purchase

in article [email protected], George Spigot at [email protected]
wrote on 30/10/04 6:49 pm:

> Just bought an Epson R300 takes memory cards and prints from them.
> Plugs directly into the camera (Cannon Ixus i nice little compact camera)
> and prints pictures without a computer + works as a card reader too
>
>
Same printer that I've got.
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in article [email protected], Tim Hobbs at
[email protected] wrote on 30/10/04 7:02 pm:

> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:36:41 +0100, "George Spigot" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Don't know what these are like but they are near me
>> http://www.internetcamerasdirect.co.uk/
>>
>
> Useless.
>
> Mandy almost didn't get her Chrimbo present last year, as they 'lost'
> the order. Couldn't guarantee stock, so on 23rd December at 1pm I
> ordered one from Pixmania. It arrived at 10.30am on Christmas Eve,
> having been despatched from Paris. Bloody excellent and cheaper than
> the high street.
>
I checked and that's where we got the camcorder from. At the time I was
after a Canon 650mvi and had been let down by a company over here, who were
waiting for stock. Ordered the camera in the morning and had it the
following afternoon - also from Paris. Arrived just in time for Isaacs
birthday and for us to take to the Land Rover Show at Peterborough.
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Nikki

1990 Discovery V8i
1985 Range Rover V8
1975 88" Series III 2.25 petrol
1979 Series III Lightweight 2.25 petrol

in article [email protected], George Spigot at [email protected]
wrote on 30/10/04 7:13 pm:

>
> "Tim Hobbs" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:36:41 +0100, "George Spigot" <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Don't know what these are like but they are near me
>>> http://www.internetcamerasdirect.co.uk/
>>>
>>
>> Useless.
>>
>> Mandy almost didn't get her Chrimbo present last year, as they 'lost'
>> the order. Couldn't guarantee stock, so on 23rd December at 1pm I
>> ordered one from Pixmania. It arrived at 10.30am on Christmas Eve,
>> having been despatched from Paris. Bloody excellent and cheaper than
>> the high street
>
> .
> good to know I suppose but as they are less than 8 mile from me I'd go and
> pick it up.
> I was gonna buy a optio s but when I wanted one they had sold out.
> So bought a Cannon Ixus i at a bargain price of £125 from elsewhere
> (wanted a tiny camera)

I don't think I want anything that's small enough for me or Bruce to put in
a pocket - Bruce has already trashed the main screen on a Samsung V200. He
kneeled on it when he was changing a slow punture on the Lightweight. Its
also got to be the most expensive Samsung screen to replace -cheapest I
found has been £80.

> Memory cards dirt cheap now 1gig sd £57 :O( paid £62 for 512 b4 I went on
> holliday a couple of months ago.
>
>

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Nikki

1990 Discovery V8i
1985 Range Rover V8
1975 88" Series III 2.25 petrol
1979 Series III Lightweight 2.25 petrol

>>
>I checked and that's where we got the camcorder from. At the time I was
>after a Canon 650mvi and had been let down by a company over here, who were
>waiting for stock. Ordered the camera in the morning and had it the
>following afternoon - also from Paris. Arrived just in time for Isaacs
>birthday and for us to take to the Land Rover Show at Peterborough.

The good bit is that you can watch the parcel's progress through the
various DHL depots, so you know it's coming and roughly when.


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Knowing bugrall about cameras and photography, my two pennuth on the
question....

Just bought a Sony DSC W1 plus a 256K additional memory from
www.7dayshop.com . I'm happy to endorse recommendations for that company,
whose prices came out considerably less than any other I could find. They're
based in Guernsey so delivery took a day or two longer, but I'm thoroughly
pleased with both them and the camera. It's handy, quick and easy to use,
gives brilliant results and does everything I wanted of a digi camera.

Probably just the same as several dozen alternatives in the price-range I
s'pose

Brian

On Saturday, in article <[email protected]>
[email protected] "Richard Brookman" wrote:

> So Austin Shackles was, like
>
> > FWIW, my thinking on going for an olympus was that olympus, being
> > camera makers of some repute, ought to know how to make a lens.
>
> My first digital camera was an Olympus. Even though it was only 1.3
> megawhatsits, it took pictures better than some cameras with twice the
> resolution. In the end I reckoned it was just that it had a a very good
> lens. Got rid of it when I went to digital SLR, but I would recommend the
> make for lens quality and general usefulness.

Some of the cheap cameras are pretty poor, optically, but maybe OK for a
web page. I currently use a Kodak camera which, in pixels, can give you
a decent 10x8 print. Remember that you need quite a few printer pixels
from an inkjet to get the colour variation between camera pixels.

I've recently been scanning in some old slides. Some of them, taken
with a cheapish camera, are nicely exposed, good for colour, but just
don't have the resolution. The difference when I went to an SLR is
pretty obvious.

The cheapest slide/film scanner I know will scan about 1800 dpi, and I
went for the next higher in the range. I'm not sure how often I'll get
the full advantage of 2400 dpi, but it also came with better photo-
editing software. Incidentally, if the film will record 1800 dpi, and
the scanner scans at that, you won't get all the detail. You'll on;y be
getting about 900dpi of detail. The edges in the image don't always
line up with the edges in the sensor.

This is partly why high printer resolution will make a difference, even
for a low-resolution picture.


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On Saturday, in article
<BDA93E3C.12194%[email protected]>
[email protected] "Nikki Cluley" wrote:

> in article [email protected], Richard Brookman at
> [email protected] wrote on 30/10/04 12:10 pm:
>
> > So Nikki Cluley was, like
> >
> >>
> >> Only got USB on the mac and have an inbuilt card reader on the
> >> printer.
> >
> > The card reader on our printer (HP Photosmart 1000) only accepts certain
> > cards, and not the Compact Flash the Nikon uses, and it's also fantastically
> > slow. We got a universal card reader (this one made by Lexar, but there are
> > many others) for around 50GBP, which attaches via USB. It reads every card
> > we have and a lot we don't and is very fast - when you're working with
> > images up to 6MB this makes a lot of difference. Simple to use - once the
> > card is in the reader, Windoze reads it as just another disk. Well worth
> > it, IMO.
>
> Ours does CF,SD/MS PRO, XD AND SM. I've got a multicard reader
> too(somewhere). Got it free with the camcorder.

Single-format readers can be had for under a tenner, maybe under a fiver
is you don't want a USB cable (but a short one is handy). At that
price, and the size they are, you can pack one with the camera. Though
I am talking from te point of view of somebody who has many friends with
computers. It's also handy for transferring files.

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"History shows that the Singularity started when Sir Tim Berners-Lee
was bitten by a radioactive spider."

in article [email protected], Brian Varrall at
[email protected] wrote on 31/10/04 11:09 am:

> Knowing bugrall about cameras and photography, my two pennuth on the
> question....
>
> Just bought a Sony DSC W1 plus a 256K additional memory from
> www.7dayshop.com . I'm happy to endorse recommendations for that company,
> whose prices came out considerably less than any other I could find. They're
> based in Guernsey so delivery took a day or two longer, but I'm thoroughly
> pleased with both them and the camera. It's handy, quick and easy to use,
> gives brilliant results and does everything I wanted of a digi camera.
>
> Probably just the same as several dozen alternatives in the price-range I
> s'pose
>
> Brian
>
I expect so. I've still not decided either.
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Nikki

1990 Discovery V8i
1985 Range Rover V8
1975 88" Series III 2.25 petrol
1979 Series III Lightweight 2.25 petrol