Re: [OT] Digital Cameras

Some very good points...here's another:
  Make sure when you look through the sight, you see what your camera
sees.
(I forget the fancy term for this...)
Bought a D-Link DSC 350....No removable memory media...Your sight is
seperate from the camera lens (like in the old/cheap film
cameras.)...Slow
-- but fast enough for those single shots...It does have a video mode
that
is so bad you might as well say it doesn't...On the positive side...It
uses
a USB hookup to my computer.  The provided software has a "snapshot"
mode.
This lets me setup my Lego bots'n'stuff near the computer and I can snap
away.  I can then instantly dispose of unwanted shots ect.  (This does
compensate a little for the non-lens sight.  Move the model, shoot,
focus
the camera, shoot some more, ect.  Until I get the shot right.)

Donald Hosford

Sean Bayan Schoonmaker wrote:

> >Because this is completely off-topic, please just respond to me and
not
> >the entire list. If anyone else is interested, I will summarize the
> >responses I get and send it to you. Thanks!
>
> Hi Rick,
>
> As MANY on the list are probably interested in taking pictures of
> their ships (or at Cons, etc.), I don't think that it's OT at all.
>
> And as I've just done some research and purchased a digital camera
> myself (it should arrive tomorrow or Friday :-))
>
> Things that I looked at:
> 1) Cost - how much are you willing to spend compared to how much
> non-hobby use it'll get.
> http://shopper.cnet.com/ is a good source of comparison pricing once
> you've got a general idea what you want.
>
> 2) Minimum focal length / Macro mode. This is really important if
> you're planning to take close up pics of minis. The closer you can
> get (generally) the better.
>
> 3) Optical / Digital Zoom. Optical is better than Digital for
> clarity, but most cameras these days have a combination of both,
> either 2X/3X or vice versa.
>
> 4) Size. If it's a pain in the <you know> to carry the thing around
> at a Con, you won't. You'll leave it in the room/car, and no pictures
> will get taken.
>
> 5) Pixels. Anywhere from 1 to 3+ MP these days. What you need is
> dependent on what you're going to use it for. For web-based stuff 1
> MP will suffice, but for printing them out as pictures, you'll want
> at least 2 MP.
>