New Toy! - Page 3

BarTopDancer · 05-10-2006, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Mousey Girl

I need a digi camera... Why did you choose a Cannon? Was it price or features or a combo of both?

It was a mixture of both, and the reviews. I have an older Canon S30 that I purchased with the reviews of Euro and NA. I really wanted the Canon S80 but I couldn't spend that kind of money right now (It's $500).

This camera is very thin, will fit in my pocket or a small purse. It doesn't require a dock to download from or charge the battery with (another brand does). I was debating between the Canon and the Pentax Optio S6. In the end the Canon got slightly better reviews.

BarTopDancer · 05-10-2006, 10:51 AM

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Originally Posted by flippyshark

photo number 4 - You have an otter? (cyoot!)

Yes. And he hears no evil.

it is a photo taken of a peice of a postcard I have

Matterhorn Fan · 05-10-2006, 10:53 AM

I have the same camera, 'cept mine's only got 5 megapixels. I like it a lot.

Gemini Cricket · 05-10-2006, 10:55 AM

I love my new camera. Does anyone know where I can buy flashbulbs?

BarTopDancer · 05-10-2006, 11:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

I love my new camera. Does anyone know where I can buy flashbulbs?

www.ritzcamera.com

alphabassettgrrl · 05-10-2006, 11:22 AM

Congrats on your new toy! I've got one as well. I don't have a picture of it but it's a Casio Exilim. Small, slim, and 5.0 megapixels. Hubby's vendor gave it to the company as an incentive gift so he issued it to himself when it came in.

We'll have to give it back when he quits but for now I get to play.

My on-line photo album- http://www.flickr.com/photos/62443344@N00/sets/

I have pics from the Huntington expedition. I finally got things set up to upload them somewhere useful.

Alex · 05-10-2006, 11:36 AM

I'm going the wrong way (or, what I like to call the right way) with cameras. Everybody else's keep getting smaller and mine keeps getting bigger. But now that I've reacclimated myself to an SLR I don't know that I can ever go back again.

Ghoulish Delight · 05-10-2006, 11:47 AM

Someone's going to have to define for me what people mean by "SLR" in the digital age. Because by the definition I know, my camera, which apparantly is not considered an "SLR" has the distinguishing charactersitic of traditional SLR.

The definition I know for "SLR" (Single-Lens Reflex) is that an SLR camera is one in which the image you see through the viewfinder is the same image you that the lens sees. As opposed to a stnadard camera where the viewfinder is separate from the lens, but slightly offset. The advantage to an SLR being that you see exactly what is in the frame of the lens, rather than being off by a hair.

Traditionally, this has been achieved using prisms to split the image. But with the advent of digital, that's no longer necessary. The image that's shown on the LCD view screen of a digital camera is taken directly from the lens, (as evidenced on my camera when the automatic lens cover gets stuck half-open, leaving weird black shadows at the edge of my view screen).

So it that's no longer the distinguishing characterstic of an "SLR" camera, what the heck does it mean?

BarTopDancer · 05-10-2006, 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

I'm going the wrong way (or, what I like to call the right way) with cameras. Everybody else's keep getting smaller and mine keeps getting bigger. But now that I've reacclimated myself to an SLR I don't know that I can ever go back again.

Aside from the S80 I was quasi-seriously considering this one.

Alex · 05-10-2006, 12:24 PM

Essentially it still means the same thing but functionally the key difference in a Digital SLR is that the lens body is mounted and removable where non-SLR cameras all use fixed-body lenses.

There is still a technological value to a mirror SLR over simply using LCDs to compose the image. That benefit is in focusing. No camera-back LCD currently on market (and definitely no view-finder LCD) offers sufficient resolution for accurate focusing.

Finally, the digital SLRs on market now all offer a significant improvement of image quality at the same resolution since they CCDs inside the cameras are larger than the ones inside small digital cameras. Also, the optics of even the standard lenses tend to be better than the micro-lenses found on most standard digital cameras.

So in the digital age "SLR" is essentially a catch-all term for a bundle of features common to SLRs that aren't necessarily dependent on the actual SLR mechanism. There are a few manufacturers of prosumer digital cameras that have interchangeable lenses but do not actually use an SLR mirror.

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alphabassettgrrl Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4,978	Congrats on your new toy! I've got one as well. I don't have a picture of it but it's a Casio Exilim. Small, slim, and 5.0 megapixels. Hubby's vendor gave it to the company as an incentive gift so he issued it to himself when it came in. We'll have to give it back when he quits but for now I get to play. My on-line photo album- http://www.flickr.com/photos/62443344@N00/sets/ I have pics from the Huntington expedition. I finally got things set up to upload them somewhere useful. __________________ Why cycling? Anything [sport] that had to do with a ball, I wasn't very good at. -Lance Armstrong
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05-10-2006, 11:36 AM	#27
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	I'm going the wrong way (or, what I like to call the right way) with cameras. Everybody else's keep getting smaller and mine keeps getting bigger. But now that I've reacclimated myself to an SLR I don't know that I can ever go back again.
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05-10-2006, 11:47 AM	#28
Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	Someone's going to have to define for me what people mean by "SLR" in the digital age. Because by the definition I know, my camera, which apparantly is not considered an "SLR" has the distinguishing charactersitic of traditional SLR. The definition I know for "SLR" (Single-Lens Reflex) is that an SLR camera is one in which the image you see through the viewfinder is the same image you that the lens sees. As opposed to a stnadard camera where the viewfinder is separate from the lens, but slightly offset. The advantage to an SLR being that you see exactly what is in the frame of the lens, rather than being off by a hair. Traditionally, this has been achieved using prisms to split the image. But with the advent of digital, that's no longer necessary. The image that's shown on the LCD view screen of a digital camera is taken directly from the lens, (as evidenced on my camera when the automatic lens cover gets stuck half-open, leaving weird black shadows at the edge of my view screen). So it that's no longer the distinguishing characterstic of an "SLR" camera, what the heck does it mean? __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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05-10-2006, 12:24 PM	#30
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Essentially it still means the same thing but functionally the key difference in a Digital SLR is that the lens body is mounted and removable where non-SLR cameras all use fixed-body lenses. There is still a technological value to a mirror SLR over simply using LCDs to compose the image. That benefit is in focusing. No camera-back LCD currently on market (and definitely no view-finder LCD) offers sufficient resolution for accurate focusing. Finally, the digital SLRs on market now all offer a significant improvement of image quality at the same resolution since they CCDs inside the cameras are larger than the ones inside small digital cameras. Also, the optics of even the standard lenses tend to be better than the micro-lenses found on most standard digital cameras. So in the digital age "SLR" is essentially a catch-all term for a bundle of features common to SLRs that aren't necessarily dependent on the actual SLR mechanism. There are a few manufacturers of prosumer digital cameras that have interchangeable lenses but do not actually use an SLR mirror.
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