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Re: Floppies are cool! (was: Re: Finding a useful digital camera)
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Mon, 17 Apr 2000 05:55:16 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.publish, Matthew Miller writes:
> > [...]
> > The ones that use floppies are bad --
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> I use a camera that uses floppies (Sony Mavica FD-91), and I'm quite happy
> with it! Its resolution is only 1024x768, but that's already twice the
> vertical and horizontal resolution that I really need for almost anything
> web-related I've done so far.
Yeah, if I'd had the money, a Mavica was on my wants list.
As it was, I just went and got one with similar resolution
(Fuji DX-10) but that cost a lot less--and it came with a
mail-away for a USB reader so that vitiated my concerns over
compatibility. The AC adaptor ran $27 though--but it does
run on 220, a nice find for next year. (And yes, I did need
to buy an extra SmartMedia card; it only came with a 2MB, not
exactly big.)
But Todd's pictures always turn out well! Wahhhh! :) I
was upset until I found the macro switch on my camera...doh.
> But IMHO, far more important than compression or resolution is the quality of
> the lighting situation when the photo is taken -- good lighting makes all the
> difference in the world in digital photography! The proof is in the pudding,
> as they say! Try before you buy! :-)
I should fire up the halogens I bought, but I'm afraid of
setting my old timber house ablaze. I have that awful "oranging"
problem as a result.
> p.s. I think floppy-based cameras will be a total nuisance 2 years from now,
> but if they can make a super-disk or Zip-disk camera, then heck -- I'd be
> thrilled to be able to store 111 uncompressed 1024x768x24-bit images on an
> inexpensive 250 MB Zip disk that would be readable almost anywhere without
> special software or cables.
I believe there *is* a camera that writes to LS-120 diskettes.
For the life of me I can't recall which company it is--but it's
out there, I've seen it. There are also a couple of other digital
cameras that supposedly can handle an external drive of some kind
via USB.
best
Lindsay
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