Date:         Wed, 6 Jul 2005 08:27:57 -0500
Reply-To:     Donald Baxter <onanov@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Donald Baxter <onanov@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Digital Camera
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I have a Sony F717 at a mere 5 MP and I'm not sure this camera is
still available--perhaps the F828 has taken over.  The Leitz optics
are fantastic and with printing capability up to 20 x 30 with
excellent results I'm having a hard time justifying replacing this
camera with a "real" digital SLR.  I use this camera for my part time
job as the webmaster for our public radio stations at the University
of Iowa and find myself counting flecks of color in the eyes of some
of my subjects. Stray nosehairs, even.  Good in low light also. 
Digital display in both eyepiece and camera back but both are kind of
small.  Eyepiece has adjustable diopter for those slowly going blind
due to middling age.

Some vastly reduced examples of pictures I've taken are at
www.onanov.com (sans nosehairs)

db



On 7/6/05, Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> wrote:
> >Just before my adventure to Glacier I purchased a Canon EOS 20D - 8
> >megapixels.  I took about two thousand photos without really reading the
> >manual...used automatic until I started reading the book.  The trouble is...
> >.they all turn out super.  I bought mine online at digital1234.com -
> >purchased with a 28-55MM lens.  Had my laptop along and just downloaded at
> >the end of each session to free up the Compact Flash cards.
> 
> I bought an 8mpx  Konica Minolta DiMage A2. This is a small pseudoSLR
> ie looks rather SLRlike but ain't one. It has some really good
> features, but has difficulty focusing in low light conditions and the
> images are NO better than I was getting with an old 1.3mpx Sony
> Mavica FD-88... no better detail when blown-up. It also has huge
> trouble on sunny days, with shadows either being dead black or the
> lit bits being burned-out.
> 
> It's a camera I would not really recommend. But at least it takes
> decent memory... I bought a 4gb MicroDrive.
> 
> Sony's floppy-disc Mavicas were good wee units, but they had one weak
> point... the disc drive is prone to failure at high "milages", as
> happened to the FD-88, an ill-treated university department item.
> 
> ...anyone got a good Mavica floppy drive lying around spare?
> 
> My boss gets excellent (scientific as well as esthetic work)  results
> with his digital Nikon SLR... and this item takes his photocamera
> lenses.
> 


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