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(...) Don't do it. Floppies that is. Depending on how much money you have to spend on a camera: $100 -- you'll get a webcam, or a used Kodak from 1997 with grainy 320x240 pictures. $200 -- Better webcams like the irez.com types with 640x480 but (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Erik Olson" <olsone@spamcop.net> wrote in message news:G6B5IB.IC1@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) with (...) I have the D490 and I am very happy with it. It is awesome with respect to batteries. I have had it since September, have (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I have had a 990 for a month or two now, and I love it! (I got it for $836 at pcwonders.com) The twist body design is really useful because you can tilt the LCD so you can look in a different direction than the lens is pointed...for example, (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) The Nikon cameras also have an excellent macro mode -- very nice for taking Lego pictures. Although many people are recommending Olympus's cameras, I personally find them to have terrible ergonomics. They may be fine if you're used to a (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Ditto on the batteries - digicams eat them like popcorn. Here's a good site for batteries and chargers: (URL)you take pictures at half resolution (1024x768) which is fine for most (...) 78 - not bad. :) At full resolution (2048x1536) I get 245 (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Coming to the opposite conclusion: I appreciated the shape of the Olympus, and hated the Nikon shape. The Nikon swivel head was intriguing, but I got a better one-handed operating grip on the Olympus. The right half of the camera is wedge- (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Mike Stanley" <cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com> wrote in message news:G6CE3J.8xH@lugnet.com... (...) NiMH (...) a (...) if (...) site (...) I recently got the Nikon 880 and you are absolutely right about batteries! One of the first accessories I purchased (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Guys, Not that you aren't giving good advice, but remember this guys application -- posting pics of items to Ebay. He doesn't need Megapixels, 640x480 would work just fine. I'd look for a cheap 640x480 or 800x600 camera with a flash and a USB (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) To be perfectly honest I had no intention of responding just to the original poster's message - otherwise I would have replied to it and not to two messages written after it. That's how threaded conversations work - they start at one point (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) It's about comparative pricing: if any company included a 16mb card, their camera would be $25 less profitable than the other guy's. Plenty of reviews lament the 8mb card. Might as well sell the darn cards separately (but that risks alienating (...) (24 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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As far as macro shots go (especially LEGO) I use the LCD for composing the shot, since that gives me an SLR effect and what I see is almost exactly what I will get in my shot. With any non-SLR camera, macro mode is near useless since parallax is (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I couldn't disagree more. I *love* the swivel when composing shots from the LCD, which is what I do mostly. I wouldn't buy a digital camera without this feature. (And if you don't like the swivel, the Nikon 800 is still a nice camera -- most (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'll speak up in favor of the 800 as well. I love it. I took it as my primary camera on my honeymoon (to London) and got some absolutely incredible shots. J (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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See also: (URL) has a reply by me extolling my 800 (...) I have an 800 and like it a lot. The only thing I miss from my older camera (now defunct) is the swivel feature. I believe the 950 has more additional features than just the swivel, though. I (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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(...) this (...) Me too. Well, I compose using the swivel usually, I can imagine circumstances that would lead me to buy a camera without the swivel, but it would be pretty powerful in other ways. (...) primary (...) My 950 is a pretty good camera. (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) The 880 is great, it can record 40 sec movies, has 3.3 megapixels and 2.5 optical zoom. But the problem is how to download pictures. Sure I go into Adobe Photo Deluxe and open the file from My Camera and then save it, but I cant post any of (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) What file format are you saving as? (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) it claims to be saving it as a ".jpeg adobe photo deluxe adition" (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.publish)
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You must have a smaller microdrive ;-) I can fit over 1000 on my Casio 2800 on the 1Gig microdrive at max size. (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) 340mb, yeah. I'm thinking of getting a larger Microdrive when I get a PocketPC unit that supports them, but I will still use the 340mb for the camera unless I have a storage "emergency". (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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