From: Bruce Markowitz (scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: Thu Sep 27 2001 - 16:05:38 EDT
I guess it denpends on whether you want decent pictures. You need a 1.3MP
camera for 4X6 prints, at least 2.1 MP for 8X10
I actually took ever 40 pics at the site, only posted a few, my friends have
asked me to print 8X10's of most of them. They look SUPER. I also have some
pics of the site which I think were taken with a disposbale camera. They are
improperly exposed and out of focus (but still dramatic).
I paid $250 for this camera at officemax.com, and I also have a 2100Z (with
the 10X stablilized lens) for serious work
I put this Oly into a small belt case when I went to the site, thinking I
might get the chance to take some pics while waiting to go into the rescue
line. If it broke, so be it, $250 is not a lot of money in today's world.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Berry" <jberry_at_islandnet.com>
Newsgroups: list.thinkpad
To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 4:24 PM
Subject: Re: OT - Looking for a DIGICAM
> In article <002f01c14774$a2639c20$9d00a8c0_at_IBMUSER>,
> "Bruce Markowitz" <scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> >I think that it would be a waste of money to buy a really cheap digicam.
> >They take horrible pics.
>
> Really? I would have thought that there would be one instance
> (like 7.5 feet away in bright daylight) where even cheap
> cameras would take acceptable pics. If that happens to be the
> use (e.g., group photos of friends), then OK.
>
> Another option is disposable cameras, which can take surprisingly
> good photos. I mean, if you take your $300 camera and compare
> it to your $60 camera, there's a big difference for a factor of
> 5x in price. Then if you compare it to your $3 (value of
> hardware, not including film) disposable camera, the quality is
> much better than you'd fear from a 20x factor in price.
>
> And at a track meet, a panorama throwaway could be neat.
>
> Incidentally, my Kodak DC215 works fine with a thinkpad. I
> just load the 32 MB memory card into a PCMCIA adaptor. Works
> with a 701C and with a 600E.
>
> --
> cheers
> Jonathan Berry
> http://www.islandnet.com/~jberry/ to know more than you want
>
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