Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There's another option, Martin, and that's to go for the lower end of the digital camera list...this Xmas I got my wife a cheap Olympus digital P&S - 3x digital zoom - the camera itself was selling for less than $160, and with a 128 mg card was about $230....They claim it can produce decent prints up to 4x6...It can certainly turn out images for the web, and it has a stunningly good fill-flash setup -especially considering the price... If you're just looking to have fun and send photos over the net - that's the way to do it - and do it on the cheap. :-) B. D. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Martin Howard Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 4:14 PM To: Leica Users Group LUG Subject: [Leica] Moderately OT: Scanner or Digital Camera? The Internet is a great way to keep in touch with people. Posting photographs on the Internet doubly so. However, at the moment, I find myself with lots of friends, but no way of getting photographs onto the Internet. If money were no issue, then it wouldn't be a problem, but one of the things that makes life so fun and challenging is that money is always an issue... ;) Right now, I have no digital camera, nor any scanner. I'm trying to decide what I should do about this, and I'd like to hear how you have addressed the same issues. At the moment, my options appear to be these: A) Get a "cheap" digital camera. Since I'll pretty much only be using it for web stuff, I could get away with buying something like a point-and-shoot. The high-end ones, like the PowerShot G3, seems like an interesting alternative that has the advantage that you could do more serious things with it too. Major disadvantage is that it's going to be obsolete pretty damn quickly (18 months? 24 months?) B) Get a "prosumer" digital camea. This means something like a Nikon D-100 or Canon D-60. Interchangable lens SLR that would also work with 35mm film bodies. Advantages include better quality, more versitile equipment, and will become obsolete less quickly (since I can use lenses on several bodies). Lots of fun with new toys. Major disadvantage is, of course, cost. Figure on $2,000 for the body, plus lenses. C) Get a film scanner. I pretty much am never going to make digital prints -- I use my Leica's and Bessa's for that. I prefer shooting with them (small, useful, lots of lenses, accessories, etc). So, I was thinking that maybe I should just shoot film and get a reasonably decent scanner instead. All the advantages of doing my own development, along with not having to buy a new camera outfit. But what about cost? I'd not want to spend much more than about $800 on a scanner (since it'd have the same lifetime disadvantages as a point-and-shoot digital). Can you get decent quality for that? Any thoughts? What did *you* do? A, B, or C? (And for our Swedish audience, the answer: "På A svarar vi nej, på B svarar vi D-100, och på C vet vi inte" is not considered an acceptable answer... ;) M. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html