From: Craig Koshyk (chiendog@pangea.ca)
Date: 07/18/01-09:55:20 AM Z
This generation of
> digital cameras are not made for very serious use, not that they
> don't give surprising results under the optimum conditions.
Well said.
Just my two cents here but....
It goes way beyond pixel count and resolution. Most digicams in the price
range you are considering will have at least adequate numbers. Whether you
end up loving and using the camera or hating and chucking it away will
depend more on the features and the ease of use. I currently have a Pentax
EI2000 that I use for some of the classes I give. It is capable of very good
results in terms of resolution, sharpness etc.
Using the damn thing however as big a pain in the derriere as a visit to a
cold fingered protoclogist. I would love to meet the design team for this
piece of work and give them a communal slap upside the head.
This...uh...camera...has way too many quirks, irks and fumbling procedures
to describe here. It would take an hour or so to vent them all. Suffice it
to say that you really have to look beyond the stats that role off the
silver tongues of the well groomed salespeople and actually spend and hour
or more using the thing.
You will find that there are two types of machines out there: digital
cameras designed by and meant for photographers, and badly designed, quirky
computers with lenses stuck on the front.
Get the first kind. Leave the other kind for those adept at playing pocket
video games.
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