[TriLUG] Digital Cameras

[Ralph Blach]

John,

I would hartly recomend an Cannon A-95.  Its a 5 megapixel and its super.

Chip


John Berninger wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Brian McCullough wrote:
> 
> 
>>My sister sent me a note asking what I would recommend as a "good"
>>digital camera, and not being currently interested in that market, I
>>don't have any good answers for her.  She also wondered about possible
>>printers to go with such a camera.  A friend mentioned an Epson
>>"do-everything" printer that takes the data from the camera, shows it on
>>a screen, manipulates the picture and then prints it, all for about
>>$100!
> 
>         Take the following as coming from a film camera bigot, but one
> who's very interested in photography.
> 
>         Just about any digital camera nowadays is "good" - even the
> cheapies at Best Buy.  How much further up the scale you want to go
> depends on how much you can afford.  The top of the line would be dSLR's
> such as Kodak's DCS Pro/n or Pro/c, which retail for around $3500,
> followed by the Nikon D series or Canon D series and digital Rebel.
> 
>         Outside the realm of dSLR's, you generally want to compare based
> on optical zoom (digital zoom is automatic pixellation), effective
> resolution (the megapixel number), and - to be honest - how the camera
> feels in your hand.
> 
>         I have a Fujifilm S5000 that looks almost exactly like a
> shrunken SLR, and it feels very natural to me, with all the controls in
> the places I expect them.
> 
>         As far as printers, I can highly recommend the HP Photosmart
> line - I've printed 8x10's from scanned film and I can't tell the
> difference between that and a lab print - and I can find pixellation in
> almost *any* digital image.  I've got the 7660, ran me about $120 after
> tax, and it's as solid as I could hope for.  It's also a "do everything"
> printer with resizing, cropping, etc on the built-in LCD display and
> slots for various media types (SD, MMC, XD, CF, etc).
>