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Need help selecting digital camera
Newsgroup,
I need to get a digital camera to replace the Polorid 600, and would appreciate any help. Some information about the camera use to help guide the comments: * The camera will be used mostly for documentation of things like scope traces, printed circuit traces, control panel pictures, and some field test items that may be in bright sun. Light levels run from normal room lighting to bright sun. Speed from stationary, to oscilloscope display, to moderately fast moving (1/30s to 1/250s typically). * Users of the camera vary between no photography experience, to a fair amount of experience. That said, the camera should be as simple to use as possible because I don't want people spending time tweaking settings. * Picture size is typically 5 in. by 7 in. some are larger. * Budget is limited and I would like to stay at $100 (U.S.) or less. * Features that seem important a - Easy to use is number 1, which includes controls and menus. - Very good quality pictures (focus, exposure, color) important. - Very reliable. - Easy to use in the sun. I like viewfinders for this, but... - Optical zoom of 3 to 1 or better. - Batteries that can be obtained at 'mart's is a must. - Easy to down-load to P.C. or printer, and quickly. - Macro would be nice for close-ups of circuit card failures. - Manual controls would be nice, at least for some of us. Some cameras that I'm considering are the ones that will be on sale for black Friday. They a http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...83 2852010904 http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...16 2793659556 Nikon Coolpix L18 Digital Camera - $99.99 at Ritz Olympus Stylus 760 Digital Camera - $99.99 at Ritz Kodak EasyShare C913 9MP 2.5" LCD With Free Canon Photo Printer, $79.99 at Staples Casio EX-Z9 8.1MP Digital Camera - $99.99 at K-Mart (Thur. only) Kodak EasyShare MX1063 10MP Digital Camera w/ 3x Zoom - $89.00 Target Thanks for any serious suggestions. Dave |
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"Dave Boland" wrote in message ... Newsgroup, I need to get a digital camera to replace the Polorid 600, and would appreciate any help. Some information about the camera use to help guide the comments: * The camera will be used mostly for documentation of things like scope traces, printed circuit traces, control panel pictures, and some field test items that may be in bright sun. Light levels run from normal room lighting to bright sun. Speed from stationary, to oscilloscope display, to moderately fast moving (1/30s to 1/250s typically). I can't offer any real recommendations but from taking pictures of scopes traces you'll need a camera with a good and easy focus at short distances of around 50cm or so. So check how easy/good the macro function is. We have brought LCD scopes that have built in USB ports for direct printing and saving the trace as an image file. I brought a canon G10 last week, haven't used it much yet, but did get a reasonable picture of a blown op-amp. easier to manually focus than my old S70 but I'd still prefer a good olde fashion focusing ring around the lens and a sturdy tripod. |
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Need help selecting digital camera
Dave Boland wrote:
Newsgroup, I need to get a digital camera to replace the Polorid 600, and would appreciate any help. Some information about the camera use to help guide the comments: * Picture size is typically 5 in. by 7 in. some are larger. * Budget is limited and I would like to stay at $100 (U.S.) or less. * Features that seem important a - Easy to use is number 1, which includes controls and menus. - Very good quality pictures (focus, exposure, color) important. - Very reliable. - Easy to use in the sun. I like viewfinders for this, but... - Optical zoom of 3 to 1 or better. - Batteries that can be obtained at 'mart's is a must. - Easy to down-load to P.C. or printer, and quickly. - Macro would be nice for close-ups of circuit card failures. - Manual controls would be nice, at least for some of us. Nikon Coolpix L18 Digital Camera - $99.99 at Ritz Olympus Stylus 760 Digital Camera - $99.99 at Ritz Kodak EasyShare C913 9MP 2.5" LCD With Free Canon Photo Printer, $79.99 at Staples Casio EX-Z9 8.1MP Digital Camera - $99.99 at K-Mart (Thur. only) Kodak EasyShare MX1063 10MP Digital Camera w/ 3x Zoom - $89.00 Target Thanks for any serious suggestions. www.dpreview.com is a very good place for you to winnow your choices. For good prints at 5x7 and reasonable at 8x10 consider a camera with about 300 dpi potential output: 5 x 300 = 1500 7 x 300 = 2100 X = ~ 3 Mpixels. So any 4 or 5 Mpix camera that otherwise meets your needs should suffice. -- -- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch. -- usenet posts from gmail.com and googlemail.com are filtered out. |
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Need help selecting digital camera
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:08:02 -0500, Alan Browne
wrote: Dave Boland wrote: Newsgroup, I need to get a digital camera to replace the Polorid 600, and would appreciate any help. Some information about the camera use to help guide the comments: * Picture size is typically 5 in. by 7 in. some are larger. * Budget is limited and I would like to stay at $100 (U.S.) or less. * Features that seem important a - Easy to use is number 1, which includes controls and menus. - Very good quality pictures (focus, exposure, color) important. - Very reliable. - Easy to use in the sun. I like viewfinders for this, but... - Optical zoom of 3 to 1 or better. - Batteries that can be obtained at 'mart's is a must. - Easy to down-load to P.C. or printer, and quickly. - Macro would be nice for close-ups of circuit card failures. - Manual controls would be nice, at least for some of us. Nikon Coolpix L18 Digital Camera - $99.99 at Ritz Olympus Stylus 760 Digital Camera - $99.99 at Ritz Kodak EasyShare C913 9MP 2.5" LCD With Free Canon Photo Printer, $79.99 at Staples Casio EX-Z9 8.1MP Digital Camera - $99.99 at K-Mart (Thur. only) Kodak EasyShare MX1063 10MP Digital Camera w/ 3x Zoom - $89.00 Target Thanks for any serious suggestions. www.dpreview.com is a very good place for you to winnow your choices. For good prints at 5x7 and reasonable at 8x10 consider a camera with about 300 dpi potential output: 5 x 300 = 1500 7 x 300 = 2100 X = ~ 3 Mpixels. So any 4 or 5 Mpix camera that otherwise meets your needs should suffice. Looking at his conditions, I would rule out the Casio because it doesn't use AA batteries. The Olympus is not rated well at all. Of that group, the Nikon is the most likely to produce good "macro" photos. I'd go with the Coolpix L18. -- Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida |
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Alan Browne wrote:
Dave Boland wrote: Newsgroup, I need to get a digital camera to replace the Polorid 600, and would appreciate any help. Some information about the camera use to help guide the comments: * Picture size is typically 5 in. by 7 in. some are larger. * Budget is limited and I would like to stay at $100 (U.S.) or less. * Features that seem important a - Easy to use is number 1, which includes controls and menus. - Very good quality pictures (focus, exposure, color) important. - Very reliable. - Easy to use in the sun. I like viewfinders for this, but... - Optical zoom of 3 to 1 or better. - Batteries that can be obtained at 'mart's is a must. - Easy to down-load to P.C. or printer, and quickly. - Macro would be nice for close-ups of circuit card failures. - Manual controls would be nice, at least for some of us. Nikon Coolpix L18 Digital Camera - $99.99 at Ritz Olympus Stylus 760 Digital Camera - $99.99 at Ritz Kodak EasyShare C913 9MP 2.5" LCD With Free Canon Photo Printer, $79.99 at Staples Casio EX-Z9 8.1MP Digital Camera - $99.99 at K-Mart (Thur. only) Kodak EasyShare MX1063 10MP Digital Camera w/ 3x Zoom - $89.00 Target Thanks for any serious suggestions. www.dpreview.com is a very good place for you to winnow your choices. For good prints at 5x7 and reasonable at 8x10 consider a camera with about 300 dpi potential output: Cameras do not have dpi output. Digital images are composed of pixels, hence, ppi, not dpi. I know you are capable of making this distinction, so just do it instead of arguing how unimportant it is to you. It may be important to some who are trying to learn digital processing. -- lsmft Coach: "Are you just ignorant, or merely apathetic?" Player: "Coach, I don't know, and I don't care." |
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McPhotos wrote:
Alan Browne wrote: www.dpreview.com is a very good place for you to winnow your choices. For good prints at 5x7 and reasonable at 8x10 consider a camera with about 300 dpi potential output: 5 x 300 = 1500 7 x 300 = 2100 X = ~ 3 Mpixels. So any 4 or 5 Mpix camera that otherwise meets your needs should suffice. Cameras do not have dpi output. Digital images are composed of pixels, Please read more carefully next time. The tie in is his desire for 7x5 prints and the arithmetic provided (and restored above) makes the link clear enough. Take your annon-nym and blow. -- -- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch. -- usenet posts from gmail.com and googlemail.com are filtered out. |
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Alan Browne wrote:
McPhotos wrote: Alan Browne wrote: www.dpreview.com is a very good place for you to winnow your choices. For good prints at 5x7 and reasonable at 8x10 consider a camera with about 300 dpi potential output: 5 x 300 = 1500 7 x 300 = 2100 X = ~ 3 Mpixels. So any 4 or 5 Mpix camera that otherwise meets your needs should suffice. Cameras do not have dpi output. Digital images are composed of pixels, Please read more carefully next time. You simply don't get it, or you're too arrogant to admit you're wrong. Neither is becoming. The tie in is his desire for 7x5 prints and the arithmetic provided (and restored above) makes the link clear enough. The conclusion is all right, but you're confused on dots and pixels; always have been. Take your annon-nym and blow. My bad on the latter; am trying new newsfeeds, and normally sign in full, as you know. In the case of intransigents, I sometimes use the dismissive "lsmft". -- John McWilliams |
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John McWilliams wrote:
Alan Browne wrote: McPhotos wrote: Alan Browne wrote: www.dpreview.com is a very good place for you to winnow your choices. For good prints at 5x7 and reasonable at 8x10 consider a camera with about 300 dpi potential output: 5 x 300 = 1500 7 x 300 = 2100 X = ~ 3 Mpixels. So any 4 or 5 Mpix camera that otherwise meets your needs should suffice. Cameras do not have dpi output. Digital images are composed of pixels, Please read more carefully next time. You simply don't get it, or you're too arrogant to admit you're wrong. Neither is becoming. Please read below very carefully. The tie in is his desire for 7x5 prints and the arithmetic provided (and restored above) makes the link clear enough. The conclusion is all right, but you're confused on dots and pixels; always have been. Not at all. I am not confused. Merely redacting what is of little use to the OP. Rather than being anally precise about terms, I focused on what seems to be important to the OP ... somebody who probably is not all that interested in what happens between the shutter click and the printer. And that's what I refer to: how well will the sensor translate to the printer. Explaining all the interim crap in the middle is of no value to anyone, least of all this OP. So, John, at due risk of falling in your killfile, F U C K O F F O N T H I S I S S U E. Cheers, Alan. -- -- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch. -- usenet posts from gmail.com and googlemail.com are filtered out. |
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McPhotos wrote:
Alan Browne wrote: snip for brevity For good prints at 5x7 and reasonable at 8x10 consider a camera with about 300 dpi potential output: text erased by "McPhotos" 5 x 300 = 1500 7 x 300 = 2100 X = ~ 3 Mpixels. So any 4 or 5 Mpix camera that otherwise meets your needs should suffice. /text erased by "McPhotos" Cameras do not have dpi output. Digital images are composed of pixels, hence, ppi, not dpi. I know you are capable of making this distinction, so just do it instead of arguing how unimportant it is to you. It may be important to some who are trying to learn digital processing. It's pretty darn obvious what Alan Browne intended, the fact that DPI was confused for PPI is really neither here nor there. I would only suggest that slightly more resolution is ideal, especially if you want to crop off extra image detail that isn't relevant to your intended final image and that 6MP or 8MP would be a better idea. I'm also not sure that there are many new cameras which are made with less than 10MP anyway. I feel that the most important bit these days is to see how easy the controls are to manipulate and how easy it is to navigate to alter the settings to your liking. This can only be done by actually going to a real shop and testing for yourself. |
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Need help selecting digital camera
Alan Browne wrote:
John McWilliams wrote: Alan Browne wrote: McPhotos wrote: Alan Browne wrote: www.dpreview.com is a very good place for you to winnow your choices. For good prints at 5x7 and reasonable at 8x10 consider a camera with about 300 dpi potential output: 5 x 300 = 1500 7 x 300 = 2100 X = ~ 3 Mpixels. So any 4 or 5 Mpix camera that otherwise meets your needs should suffice. Cameras do not have dpi output. Digital images are composed of pixels, Please read more carefully next time. You simply don't get it, or you're too arrogant to admit you're wrong. Neither is becoming. Please read below very carefully. The tie in is his desire for 7x5 prints and the arithmetic provided (and restored above) makes the link clear enough. The conclusion is all right, but you're confused on dots and pixels; always have been. Not at all. I am not confused. Merely redacting what is of little use to the OP. Rather than being anally precise about terms, I focused on what seems to be important to the OP ... somebody who probably is not all that interested in what happens between the shutter click and the printer. And that's what I refer to: how well will the sensor translate to the printer. Explaining all the interim crap in the middle is of no value to anyone, least of all this OP. So you maintain. I disagree, and will continue tilting at the occasional windmill; others can learn and use correct terms, even if you have to defend your errors ad nauseum. So, John, at due risk of falling in your killfile, F U C K O F F O N T H I S I S S U E. Cheers, Alan. Never! I correct folks on this minor minor nomenclature error as it will help those who are trying to learn, that pixels and dots are different. And you're far too important to be in my k-f, dontcha think? Chairs! -- john mcwilliams |
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