Post Your Camera

May 2nd, 2003, 7:03 am

My next camera is gonna be the Nikon 3100. I should have it pretty soon.

My current digital is a crappy HP 315. I dropped 1 too many times and the
battery cover is broken. I hold the batteries in with duct tape now.

I also just borrowed my dad's 1978 Yoshica 35mm he bought that year in
Japan. It takes fabulous pics, and I'll post some here soon. I lucked out
because he has 4 diff lenses already, so I've been having a blast with it.

May 4th, 2003, 8:14 pm

Nikon880

3.2mp digicam

Lots of manual functions.. very good camera for all types of photographers and photos.

May 4th, 2003, 8:29 pm

sweet ...

yes please !

do keep this thread going, I'm also looking to pick up a Digital Camera
and sure could use plenty of insiders information on what not to buy.

thanks a lot !

[Bigwebmaster]

May 4th, 2003, 9:00 pm

My sister just picked up a 5 megapixel digital camera for around 500 bucks by Canon. You can see it here:

http://www.powershot.com/powershot2/s50-45/index.html

IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE
Type 1/1.8-inch Charge-Coupled Device (CCD)
Total Pixels Approx. 5.3 Million (S50), 4.1 Million (S45)
Effective Pixels Approx. 5.0 Million (S50), 4.0 Million (S45)

IMAGE STORAGE
Storage Media CompactFlash (CF) Card Type I or Type II
File Format Design rule for Camera File System (DCF*1)
Print Order Format Digital Print Order Format (DPOF) Version 1.1
Image Recording Format Still Image: JPEG (Exif 2.2 compliant)/ RAW
JPEG Compression Mode SuperFine, Fine or Normal
Number of Recording Pixels 2592 x 1944/ 2272 x 1704 (Large - S50/ S45), 1600 x 1200 (Medium 1), 1024 x 768 (Medium 2), 640 x 480 pixels (Small)
Movie: 320 x 240 or 160 x 120

[Bigwebmaster]

May 4th, 2003, 9:09 pm

I was looking around on Canon and freaked out when I saw a digital camera there up to 11.1 mega pixels. It only costs 8 grand!

Check out the 11.1 megapixel camera:

http://www.canon.co.jp/Imaging/EOS1DS/splash.html


This one is 6.30 megapixels:

http://web.canon.jp/Imaging/EOS10D/menu.html

The cool thing about both of these cameras is you can attach your own lenses to the camera like normal cameras. Which might enable you to get an extremely nice optical zoom and much clearer photographs.

May 4th, 2003, 9:33 pm

Thats sick man !

who'd spend that kindof money on a camera?

oh I get it someone with someone elses credit card, as in company cards perhaps.

thats a HUGE price tag, nice product though.

May 4th, 2003, 9:56 pm

Bigwebmaster wrote:

The cool thing about both of these cameras is you can attach your own lenses to the camera like normal cameras. Which might enable you to get an extremely nice optical zoom and much clearer photographs.

You can get digital SLR's for as low as $1,500 nowadays.. and near-SLR cameras (such as the nikon 5700) are good alternatives at under 1 grand.

May 5th, 2003, 3:39 am

I was just digital camera shopping yesterday, and asked around with some buddies and they suggested to me the Olympus 720 or 740. Both can be had for under $400.

May 5th, 2003, 4:17 am

Jimmie wrote:

I was just digital camera shopping yesterday, and asked around with some buddies and they suggested to me the Olympus 720 or 740. Both can be had for under $400.

Thanks Jimmie,
I've made a note of that,
something within my price range.

I guess I'll want to sell my old camera afterward to recoupe some of the money spend.


I've added the Olympus to my list to look into.
need to be able to goto the stores and do the touch and feel thing,
they all look good on the internet with pictures and all but holding
it your hands before making up ones mind is really what needs to happen.

thanks again for the advice.

May 5th, 2003, 9:55 am

the camera I plan to buy next week is the Nikon 3100. Take a look at
GIA's work, and you'll see the sort of images it can take. Phenominal,
and this is the updated model of his camera.

$350 US

Here's a great site and resource for you to research:

http://www.dpreview.com

May 5th, 2003, 2:43 pm

UNFLUX wrote:

the camera I plan to buy next week is the Nikon 3100. Take a look at
GIA's work, and you'll see the sort of images it can take. Phenominal,
and this is the updated model of his camera.

$350 US

Here's a great site and resource for you to research:

http://www.dpreview.com

The sample photos at DPreview are great also.

May 6th, 2003, 4:09 pm

My mom has the Sony DSC-P1 which cost her $1200 2 years ago... Its a great camera, real compact and I seen it all over ebay for around $200....

May 6th, 2003, 5:40 pm

UNFLUX wrote:

Here's a great site and resource for you to research:

http://www.dpreview.com

Thanks, have been browsing it ...

May 6th, 2003, 5:43 pm

[Bigwebmaster]

May 11th, 2003, 4:35 am

So what do you have your list narrowed down to Steen for possible cameras you might buy?