My HP's on the blink, and I need a new camera ($200-$300 range)

wrote:
thanks, but I bought HP (a name brand) and wasn't happy. I was thinking
Canon or Casio this time around.

HP is a name brand, but it's still not a camera company. Stick with a
top tier camera manufacturer such as Canon or Nikon.

silverthreads wrote:
I am on my first set of lithium AAs and I am about 300 pics with no
sign of diiminished battery life. The rechargeables the came with my
Sony H5 in August are only good for about 100 pics and when the battery
indicator starts to drop it isn't long before they are dead. I also
have four backup energizer rechargables that are about 1 year old and
have a very poor endurance and seem to drain in storage. I am very
curious to see how fast the lithium AAs drop off after the battery
indicator starts to indicate the first sign of drop off.

The Lithium AA batteries are very good. I just picked some more up on
sale at Walgreens (4 for $7.99 this week).

The other batteries to try, that don't have the endurance and storage
problem, are the Sanyo eneloop batteries, which have just hit the U.S.
market. They are lower capacity than the highest end NiMh cells, but
there is very little self-discharge.

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 06:12:25 -0700, SMS
wrote:

wrote:
thanks, but I bought HP (a name brand) and wasn't happy. I was thinking
Canon or Casio this time around.

HP is a name brand, but it's still not a camera company. Stick with a
top tier camera manufacturer such as Canon or Nikon.

Right.
Kawasaki is an earthmoving equipment and shipbuilding company.
Oh yes, they also make motorcycles.
Does that make Kawasaki not a motorcycle company?
--
Bill Funk
replace "g" with "a"

silverthreads wrote:
My lithium batteries died at the X Prize Cup. I am very impressed with
the number of images I got using one set of lithium batteries. I was a
little dissapointed by the amount of warning I got when they started to
diminish. it went from full to a low battery indicator in a very short
amount of time.
silverthreads wrote:

I am on my first set of lithium AAs and I am about 300 pics with no
sign of diiminished battery life. The rechargeables the came with my
Sony H5 in August are only good for about 100 pics and when the battery
indicator starts to drop it isn't long before they are dead. I also
have four backup energizer rechargables that are about 1 year old and
have a very poor endurance and seem to drain in storage. I am very
curious to see how fast the lithium AAs drop off after the battery
indicator starts to indicate the first sign of drop off.
ASAAR wrote:

On 4 Oct 2006 02:43:48 -0700, wrote:


I've got an HP digicam (R707) now. I like the picture quality OK, but
after a year it's acting up (some buttons don't work sometimes (heat
sensitive), pictures keep disappearing on the cards, even fairly new
ones). I'd like to get a new camera of similar or better in features,
but more reliable. I'd also like to use the cards I'm already using on
the HP, and a recharge unit small enough to be convenient for travel.

I'll mention a few Canon cameras, but Kodak, Fuji and other
manufacturers make fairly comparable cameras. If you get a model
that uses AA batteries, you have many chargers to choose from. I've
got a number of them, but the smallest (and an overall good
performer) is a collapsible smart charger sold by Radio Shack,
roughly the size of a C cell, but slightly taller. It has a
fold-out AC plug, so it doesn't even need a power cord. Some models
using 2 AA cells are Canon's A530 and A700. The A630, which uses 4
AA cells is slightly larger, but provides not only twice as many
shots per charge, but is also a quicker performer, probably due to
the higher voltage provided by the 4 AA cells.

The good news is that with today's cameras if a fair number of
your shots require the camera's flash, you may or may not need to
use rechargeable batteries, since alkalines can provide hundreds of
shots per set. The even better news is that if most of your shots
won't use the flash, for example, using it primarily for outdoor
shots, you can get up to nearly 1,000 shots per set of batteries.
If that's the case, and you average fewer than 5,000 shots per year
(about 200 24 shot rolls of film per year), your yearly expenditure
for batteries would range from slightly less to far less than the
cost of one fast food meal, even if you don't want fries with that.


Lithium batteries maintain a good voltage almost to the end, and "die"
suddenly. I always carry spare Lithium batteries with me, one for my
cellphone and one for my digicam.

Morton

Bill Funk wrote:

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 06:12:25 -0700, SMS
wrote:

wrote:
thanks, but I bought HP (a name brand) and wasn't happy. I was thinking
Canon or Casio this time around.

HP is a name brand, but it's still not a camera company. Stick with a
top tier camera manufacturer such as Canon or Nikon.

Right.
Kawasaki is an earthmoving equipment and shipbuilding company.
Oh yes, they also make motorcycles.
Does that make Kawasaki not a motorcycle company?
--
Bill Funk
replace "g" with "a"


Hello, Bill:

Furthermore, Yamaha began as a manufacturer of musical instruments
(which it still is), General Electric is the world's largest builder
of jet engines, and the Ford Motor Company has long had an aerospace
division.

Hewlett-Packard's digicams are crummy, regardless. :-P


Cordially,
John Turco