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Re: Floppies are cool! (was: Re: Finding a useful digital camera)
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lugnet.publish
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Mon, 17 Apr 2000 17:23:43 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Matthew Miller writes:
> Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > All of the photos on these pages were taken with a floppy-based Mavica:
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> *shrug* Those are pretty nice, but there are definite apparent compression
> artifacts.
Ya, it ain't perfect, but it's more than adequate for my needs (basically,
taking close-ups of LEGO and goofing around with the cat). One of the other
main reasons we bought it (besides the floppy drive) was the 14x zoom and
macro capabilities.
It's 1-2 years old now so I'm sure the latest & greatest digital cameras are
better, but I expect to be happy with this one for at least another year.
If I ever get bummed out by the compression I'll just turn it off and use
640x480x24-bit uncompressed mode (1 image per disk). Even 640x480 is more
than I need for most pictures I take. :-)
> And, if you happen to have a laptop, compact flash will "just work" with
> PCMCIA. (With a cheap passive adapter; came with the compact flash card I
> bought.)
Those must download a lot faster than floppies! Neat-o!
> BTW: I recommend <http://www.megapixel.net/> as a very nice digital camera
> review site.
Ahh, cool, one for the bookmarks. Thanks.
--Todd
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