James
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Post by James on Jun 16, 2004 4:27:32 GMT -5
Well, it's been over a month now and I finally got my new camera. A Canon Powershot G5 Digi! Price: $1050!!! The things I do for my rocks. Anyhow, now that I'm done reading the manual, I can start posting the pics of my latest rocks that have been accumulating for over a month. Now I wont be able to sleep tonight. Damm!
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Post by rockyraccoon on Jun 16, 2004 8:27:51 GMT -5
i can't wait to see these!
kim
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Post by creativeminded on Jun 16, 2004 10:07:21 GMT -5
I was wondering what the price of the Canon was, I was thinking about getting one, I think I will wait until the price goes down a bit. I am a firm believer in Canon, after all I am using a Canon 35 mm that my dad had that is about 30 years old and still takes great pictures.
Tami
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SirRoxalot
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Post by SirRoxalot on Jun 16, 2004 13:43:53 GMT -5
Take a look at the Canon digital Rebel. It's now about $999, 6.3 megapixels and it comes with a good lens; beats paying two or three grand for a digital SLR with more pixels but no lens, just the body. Of course when you tack on all the extra bits you need, like flash cards, card reader, extra batteries, and a top of the line camera bag, not to mention a variety of lenses and filters, you can very quickly double or triple that price.
I'm strictly point and shoot at the moment, haven't had time to learn what I'm doing, but it works just fine on everything I've shot so far, except macro shooting.
Debated buying it for a year or so, finally broke down and said to helle with it, you can only shop around for so long before you go crazy. Fact is maybe five years ago that quality of digicam would be like ten grand.
Prices are coming down fast, but while you're waiting you ain't getting those shots. Film is obsolete, throw away all your antique film stuff and go digital. What you can do with PhotoShop is just amazing.
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Banjocreek
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Post by Banjocreek on Jun 16, 2004 14:37:09 GMT -5
If you are just doing photos for web posting anything over 2 megapixels is overkill, since the resolution has to brought down to 72 ppi. I have a Olympus 4040 that is 4.1 megapixels and I love it and it will give me a picture over 48"x56", 3x optical zoom, etc,etc., but they all have to come down to about 4x5 72ppi on the web. So I just use an Olympus 340 (it has a macro setting) for web shots and it only cost me $60 bucks (used). If you're into printing 8x10's and larger the expensive cameras are great, but for point and shoot printing 4x6's you can save some money. But as a photo buff, James; You got yourself a 'Killer' camera.
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James
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Post by James on Jun 16, 2004 16:04:53 GMT -5
I like it a lot. That price included a wide angle lens, 3 piece filter pack, 128 mb flash card, a 3 year warrenty and a deluxe case. The camera itself retails at about $579. I got a referb for $450.
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