sf
Veteran
The day before yesterday, I went out and went looking for something really small that I could fit in even my jeans pocket. Something palm sized. The Olympus Epic was my first choice for film, thanks to posters who helped me with that one (and I have that now), but I wanted to get something even smaller and which would not take film. I figure it this way (making excuses for buying little digitals): When I am looking to produce images for prints, I will have my R3A in hand or my enormous 4x5. But when I go out to the store, or down the street to buy some film for my real cameras, I might see something worth shooting, but I can't afford to spend money on film for such frivolous photography. I simply can't afford to process film on a daily basis.
I sold the D70, and instantly felt that i needed at least something digital. For selling on Ebay, for taking pics of stuff for instant postings, etc. I am about to change my little quote to something else (currently something about being happy to be a film purist again). I want to do that Coffee and camera thing, but I didn't have any way of doing it without the annoying film/scan/CD process. SO I BOUGHT A LITTLE P&S DIGITAL
HERE IS THE REVIEW:
I made a promise to myself that I would never buy anything digital again except maybe a little P&S. I kept that promise. I went to Samy's Cameras in Los Angeles, and asked for the cheapest digital camera they had. The guy at the counter handed me this bulbous, small though not really pocketable, Canon thingy with a 3.2 megapixel CCD. It was very cheapy feeling. Plastic and toylike.
I said, OK, let me see the next model up. He went in the back for a while and came out with this REALLY small little thing and said it was only 15 dollars more. Good, let me see it.
The CCD is 4.2 megapixels. It is about 2.25 by 3.5 by .75 at its largest measurements, feels like a little polycarbonate brick in my hand - very sturdy and angular, has a beautiful 2 inch LCD, and has the best user interface I have ever seen. And that includes the Nikon D70's interface which is brilliant. When shut off, the lens retracts and is covered by a little plastic protector. It has relatively little lag time between pushing the shutter release and taking the picture. It can take a decent number of shots before emptying the buffer. I can use it for shooting people on the street while driving by, so it has better responsiveness than most DP&S cameras.
Oh yeah, and it can take movies with audio too. Small little 240x320 movies , but it does not restrict the length. I went out today and shot about 75 megabytes of videos of the Farmers Market in Los Angeles because I know I will miss it when i return to Seattle.
It can shoot in BW, Sepia, color and vivid color modes. One strange thing is that it has 50, 100, and 200 ISO settings and no higher. That has not been trouble yet. It has a decent flash.
It has 3x optical zoom. Need no more from a p&s.
This camera came with a little leather carrying case, charger, video cord for TV viewing, a graphics program which I have not used yet and a wrist strap. It costs 150 bucks. It takes SD cards. $19.00 for 256 MB card.
OK, here are the sample pics. When I saved them, I had no choice but to use Paint, and it applied terrible JPEG compression to them. So the clarity is visibly less than in the original files. Oh well. I could fit three of these in my pocket.
It is made by Norcent, and it called the DC-420. Sweet little thing.
I sold the D70, and instantly felt that i needed at least something digital. For selling on Ebay, for taking pics of stuff for instant postings, etc. I am about to change my little quote to something else (currently something about being happy to be a film purist again). I want to do that Coffee and camera thing, but I didn't have any way of doing it without the annoying film/scan/CD process. SO I BOUGHT A LITTLE P&S DIGITAL
HERE IS THE REVIEW:
I made a promise to myself that I would never buy anything digital again except maybe a little P&S. I kept that promise. I went to Samy's Cameras in Los Angeles, and asked for the cheapest digital camera they had. The guy at the counter handed me this bulbous, small though not really pocketable, Canon thingy with a 3.2 megapixel CCD. It was very cheapy feeling. Plastic and toylike.
I said, OK, let me see the next model up. He went in the back for a while and came out with this REALLY small little thing and said it was only 15 dollars more. Good, let me see it.
The CCD is 4.2 megapixels. It is about 2.25 by 3.5 by .75 at its largest measurements, feels like a little polycarbonate brick in my hand - very sturdy and angular, has a beautiful 2 inch LCD, and has the best user interface I have ever seen. And that includes the Nikon D70's interface which is brilliant. When shut off, the lens retracts and is covered by a little plastic protector. It has relatively little lag time between pushing the shutter release and taking the picture. It can take a decent number of shots before emptying the buffer. I can use it for shooting people on the street while driving by, so it has better responsiveness than most DP&S cameras.
Oh yeah, and it can take movies with audio too. Small little 240x320 movies , but it does not restrict the length. I went out today and shot about 75 megabytes of videos of the Farmers Market in Los Angeles because I know I will miss it when i return to Seattle.
It can shoot in BW, Sepia, color and vivid color modes. One strange thing is that it has 50, 100, and 200 ISO settings and no higher. That has not been trouble yet. It has a decent flash.
It has 3x optical zoom. Need no more from a p&s.
This camera came with a little leather carrying case, charger, video cord for TV viewing, a graphics program which I have not used yet and a wrist strap. It costs 150 bucks. It takes SD cards. $19.00 for 256 MB card.
OK, here are the sample pics. When I saved them, I had no choice but to use Paint, and it applied terrible JPEG compression to them. So the clarity is visibly less than in the original files. Oh well. I could fit three of these in my pocket.
It is made by Norcent, and it called the DC-420. Sweet little thing.
