I convinced my wife that we should give each other a Sony DSC-p1 for Christmas. It's a great small digital camera, 3.3 megapixels, takes short movies in small quicktime mode, 3X zoom lens, 6X digital zoom etc., etc. Key, to me, is the accessory lexan marine enclosure which is supposed to be waterproof to 30 meters. I used it for the first time on the boat, today, and it works really well. One of the nicest parts was that I leave the USB cable connected to a hub, all the time, so that when I come home I just plug the other end of the cable into the camera, turn on the camera, and it comes up on my Mac's desktop. Took about a half minute to transfer 23 pictures. I really, really, like it. It's a little expensive at $699 at Buy.com, and something like $230 for the enclosure, but prices will probably come down after it's been out for a while (introduced just before Christmas). If you need really sharp pictures it'll take 'em in uncompressed TIFF which makes them about 8 Megabytes in size and only 3 or four would fit on a 64 Meg memory stick. I do them at 1280 x 960 which gives picture files that average about 300k, so I should get around 180 images at a time on the memory stick. (sorry about all these techie numbers, that's digital photography.) *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Jan 17 2001 - 20:58:19 PST
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