[Gllug] [Q] Digital Camera Recomendations

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On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 12:15:08PM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> On Thu 18 Oct, Jim Cheetham made the following spurious claims:
> 
> > Some cameras just eat batteries ... I know of a Canon bought recently
> > (don't know the model, sorry) that has a 1 hour lifetime. Not much use
> > out of the house/office ...
> 
> This is generally caused by the lack of a normal viewfinder which
> means you have to use the LCD screen to line up the shot.  A number of
> problems there: 1) try holding a camera steady without it pressed to
> your face; 2) the CCD is running all the time while you line up the
> shot; 3) the LCD and backlight is running all the time while you line
> up the shot; 4) in bright light conditions you can't see the LCD
> screen.
> 
> Moral of the story: buy one that has an ordinary viewfinder and turns
> the LCD on only when you want it to, like after the shot has been
> taken.  Recent (as in last few years) Kodak models are excellent for
> this.

I got a fairly cheap camera from morgan computers (£100 ish serial not usb)

I think it's a minolta dc10 ?

its OK - my main gripe is that there is a delay of a few seconds bettwen me
pressing the button and the picture being taken :-(
I have heard of other people having this problem but this is not a factor I
have seen reviewed anywhere.

the camera works fine with gphoto though - if I get another I'd probably chech 
gphoto support first (my camera stores time/date info but I don't seem to get this 
with either M$ or gnu)

If you haven't used a digital camera before I'd recomend tryingto borrow one before buying
I was suprised how different they are from normal cameras

-- 

Sean
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