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Name me a good digicam
Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2002 1:21 pm
by A_old
I want 2-3MP. I want decent optical zoom, and a low price if possible. low is $200-400 US MAX. ty.
HERE YOU GO ...
Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2002 7:06 pm
by mwkirchner
OLYMPUS D-550 ZOOM
This retails at about $399.00 ... but I have seen them on eBay and a few other places for anywhere from $260.00 and up.
I have one of these and can vouch for its excellent picture quality. Nice manual zoom as well as digital zoom.
Below is a sample of a picture that I recently took with this camera.
Some eBay auctions
Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2002 7:10 pm
by mwkirchner
Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2002 11:20 pm
by A_old
Thank ya, i'll look into it
Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2002 2:22 am
by Docsta
wohoo!!! thanks MW..thats a sWEET pic man...my goodness looks so sharp...
is it just plain via USB to computer..or does it have firewall available?
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 1:25 am
by Docsta
ahh nm
"Auto-Connect USB feature means the digital camera can be easily connected to almost any USB-equipped computer for quick downloading of images, without any additional driver software to be installed. "
KEWL I WANT IT
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 8:47 pm
by mwkirchner
Sorry I did not get back in here sooner ...
The camera has a Smart-Media card and you do connect the camera directly to the computer with a USB cable (included with camera). The download time from camera to computer is unbelieveably fast. I had a D-340R previous to the D-550 and it used a serial port cable to download it. That was sloooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwww . This USB is the way to go.
The 3 Megapixels made a big difference from the 1.3 that I had been using. I am more then pleased with this camera and would highly recommend it to anyone looking to spend in the $400.00 range.
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 10:30 pm
by Docsta
kewl man
do you like olympus better than cannon and all the others?
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 10:38 pm
by mwkirchner
Originally posted by Docsta
kewl man do you like olympus better than cannon and all the others?
I can not say that I like it better then any of the others because I have not owned any of the others. I am sure that Olympus is not the only good digital camera on the market, but it is my favorite. I had a regular 35mm camera by them prior to buying the digital. I did quite a bit of reading on the cameras before purchasing my original Olympus D-340R. I read nothing but good about the Olympus cameras. They are very user friendly also.
Hope that helps
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2002 12:05 am
by Docsta
thanks buddy that sure does..i want one reallllly bad
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2002 11:08 am
by reverse
Quite a few good cameras out. I have an Olympus D-460Z and it's great. Only problem I see with the Olympus cameras are; noisy zoom mechanism, opens/closes slowly, write speeds are not that fast (uses smartmedia). Other than that, Olympus D series are very nice cameras.
My next camera will more than likely be a Canon A40 due to the manual focus.
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2002 8:03 pm
by Docsta
aight thanks for the ideas reverse... appreciate it