13 Jul
1999
13 Jul
'99
3:42 p.m.
At 07:26 PM 7/13/99 +0000, Lawrence LeMay wrote:
I've been seriously considering buying a digital
camera for some time now.
... which features you really wish you'd spent extra money for.
Going through this exercise a second time I've chosen the Olympus C-2000Z.
Features that are, in my opinion, essential:
- Macro : Allows near focussing.
- External Flash attachment : allows additional flash assets
which can help the picture tremendously.
- Max resolution feasible - You can always downsample to get
a picture that loads fast on a web page, but you can't go
the other way.
- Smart Media : only one that makes sense these days. Cards
up to 32MB are available.
- Fast upload capabilitity - either an easy access smart media
card or USB. The latter is more convienient, the former is
minimal.
Non-essential but nice to have:
External DC power pack for longer life.
Video out capability for TV preview
Infrared remote control.
--Chuck