Re: Digital Cameras

[Peter Ware <pwware@ozemail.com.au>]

Jerry Leslie wrote:

> Jon Bell (jtbell@presby.edu) wrote:
>
> : One concern that I have about digital cameras has to do with the number of
> : pictures I take on a long trip.  It's easy to take along several rolls of
> : film, and if I run out, I can easily buy more film on the road.  How would
> : it look from the cost standpoint to stock up on enough memory cards to
> : accommodate a couple hundred pictures?  I don't have a laptop computer to
> : take along for picture storage.
>
> That's why I bought the wife a Sony Mavica MF-88, which uses 3.5",
> 1.44 Mb floppies as "film". The resolution isn't great, but in a few
> months there are suppose to be digital cameras with 4 Mb of pixel CCDs.
>

Or you could go totally extreme.

I have a very good qaulity digital camera that uses memory cards. Good quality
images also mean that they use a lot of memory so you can't fit too many on the
card..

I recently purchased an Iomega Clik! system (the same people who make the Zip
and Jaz drives). It is a portable hard disk drive about the size of a mobile
phone. A digitial camera memory card (it takes both the Flash and Smart cards)
is clicked into the unit and all its images are automatically transferred to the
HD. You can then wipe the card and start shooting again. The HD units are about
the size of a 50c coin (Australian), store 40M and cost about $20 each. When the
HD is full, it can also be replaced.

The Clik! system comes with a charger that also interfaces with a Windows PC.
You can also get a PCMCIA card that connects the Clik! HD  unit to a laptop and
Windows-CE handheld computer.

The system is impressive but still more expensive than 35mm film.

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