Digital Cameras and Touring
Submitted: Monday, Aug 11, 2003 at 09:08
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Johnad
When our 3rd child was born a year ago, we purchased a Panasonic 2mega pixel digital camera. Since then we have travelled and taken a few thousand photo's (with the help of a lap top). I havent used my Nikon SLR at all since.
Ive just upgraded my digital and purchased a Canon G5 (5mega pixel). So far the pics are sensational and a huge improvement on the Panasonic. The camera came with 2 x 256mb, 1x 32mb compact flash cards. This is good to store over 600 photo's. The compact flash cards are also available in 512mb, 1gb and now 4 giga bytes. It would cost a fortune to get traditional film developed, especially 600 photo's.
If anyone is considering touring the great land, a digital camera is a must.
Check out some reviews if you think the quality of digital is no good.
www.dpreview.com
By the way, I dont work for a camera store. If anyone wants to by my second hand Nikon F90x, give me your details.
John
Reply By: Savvas - Monday, Aug 11, 2003 at 10:45
Monday, Aug 11, 2003 at 10:45
John...
I'd love a G5 but $$$'s is an issue right now. However, 4 weeks ago I bought a Canon A70 which is their new 3.2Mp job. It's my 1st digital camera having had 3 Minolta SLR's prior to it.
I agree with you. It's great to just shoot photos and voila, there they are!
I convert the pics into a slide show with some backing music and interesting transitions and burn it to a VCD. These can then be viewed any time on the TV through a DVD player.
Much easier than setting up the old slide projector!!!
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Reply By: Glenno - Thursday, Aug 14, 2003 at 16:46
Thursday, Aug 14, 2003 at 16:46
I am getting ready to head off on 5 weeks Bris -> Cairns/
Cooktown ->
Darwin ->
Brisbane, and get married in Port Douglass along the way. Anyway i was in a pickle as to what to do with digital camera memory. I was either going to have to buy a bunch of 256MB memory sticks or take less photos. I certainly couldnt bank on a kodak
shop every couple of days!.
Anyway i purchased one of these suckersXDrive-II which is awesome. The company is called Powerinnumbers www.powerinnumbers.com.au and they are in
Melbourne.
The unit has a 20GB laptop hard drive and copies any memory card to the internal drive. Has 2hours of battery life and takes about 5mins to copy 128MB cards. When i get
home i just sync it via USB to the pc. then via the PC to kodak via the Internet and 5 days later presto my pics arrive!
Its the best $300 i have spent in a long time and couldnt be happier. If 20GB isnt enough just buy a larger HDD!
Enjoy, id be keen to know if anyone else uses anything like this and what they think of it.
Cheers,
glenno at glenno dotcom
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Follow Up By: Johnad - Thursday, Aug 14, 2003 at 23:48
Thursday, Aug 14, 2003 at 23:48
Fortunately, I have a laptop that has a 40gb hard drive with a built in CD burner (and DVD player to keep the kids happy).
What sort of camera are you using?
Have you tried e-box at Big W stores, only 47c per print?!?
All the processing is digital, and the results are brilliant!
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Follow Up By: Glenno - Friday, Aug 15, 2003 at 11:08
Friday, Aug 15, 2003 at 11:08
That was my thinking - take my work laptop. I didnt want the risk of carrying yet another $5,000 of equipment in the truck. Pus explaining to the boss if something went wrong. Plus the space it takes up etc. So this little unit does the trick.
I take a look at Big W and have a look at what they have. Kodak is 80c which is a fair bit more.
Cheers,
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