These are all very good suggestions, but the one thing about a digital camera is that there is a certain freedom in making pictures without the cost overhead associated with proccessing. Granted I would go out for 2 or three hours in the streets with 3 or 4 rolls of film, but this is when I dedicated a lot of time with the medium. NOw that I am involved with a lot of other stuff, I make eight exposures a day (a project I am working on) on a digital camera and download them in the evenings and still am saving enough for a drysuit probably in time for the list to decide which one is best (then again, there may be a new fabric by then). I am willing to experiment more with the lower cost overhead and I end up making more exposures- this is an advantage. I am of the tv generation so the immediate gratification is a + as well. the digital camera is not a substitute for a film camera, it has it's own specific applications. Chuck Holst wrote: > > >> > BTW, if you're interested in digital output, but don't want to go fully > digital yet, you might want to try Dale Photo Labs in Florida. For a very > reasonable fee, they will develop and mount your slides (or print your > negatives) and for a small additional fee, burn them onto a CD ROM. You then > have prints for the family/club album and digital shots for e-mail/web sites > (...and you can "polarize" (darken) the sky with Photoshop! ) > >> > > ************************************************************************* > > For the price of a decent lens, you can buy an HP PhotoSmart slide and > negative scanner, and scan your own pictures. Maximum resolution is > 2400 dpi, which is better than any digital camera under $10,000 will > give you. One reviewer claims the quality of the PhotoSmart scans is > better than he usually gets on a Photo CD. The street price of the > PhotoSmart scanner is $399 at all the sources I have checked, but there > is a $100 rebate through January if you buy it with the PhotoSmart > printer. Mine should be delivered today. > > Review: http://www.niftywebs.com/photoweb/photosmt.html > HP page: http://www.pandi.hp.com/pandi-db/dds_data_sheet.show?p_model_no=C5100A&p_p rod_type_id=17 > > Chuck Holst > gabriel l romeu http://members.aol.com/romeug studio furniture http://members.aol.com/romeugp paintings, photos, prints, etc. http://members.xoom.com/gabrielR a daily photo journal *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Nov 20 1998 - 17:00:48 PST
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