>
> Hi Barney,
> based on Marylin's querry, I suspected that she would be looking more along
> the price point of a dc20/40/50, rather than an industrial digital camera.
> Of course, high quality, high resolution, image files are possible to make
> via digital camera's (tho I'm not familiar with them).
> Marylin sounded like a photographer who was interested in playing with some
> of her images in photohop, or to post on a webpage (like myself), rather
> than a graphic designer or professional imager, who requires such high
> quality for output.
>
> Myself: I'm a photographer with 16 megs of ram, with no possible way to work
> with file sizes in excess of 5 megs let alone 100 (without my puter going
> haywire.)
Tuesday I worked (slowly!) on a 27Mb file in Photoshop 2.5 using a PC with
only 8Mb of RAM, and printed it.
I'm a lot happier doing this on my normal machine with 32Mb but it will work
on less. So don't be afraid to try it.
>
> Just a little context. I'm not about to recommend an amateur to go buy a
> $30,000 camera, so why not answer the question simply, relevantly? That's
> all I was doing.
>
> cheers
> Risa
Absolutely no argument with your answer by the way. We are still waiting for
cheap digital cameras that can make a file for anything bigger than an
enprint.
Of course you can get big files by making pictures directly on the flat bed of
a scanner - without a camera at all. I've used this for a cover picture for an
amateur magazine.
Peter Marshall
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