Tedd:
The Canon Digital Rebel 300D (6.3mp), I love it ! I got it to replace an Olympus D460-Z
(1.8mp) which I gave to my parents. I got a Rebel "kit" that has two lenses, the body and a
carrying bag. It contained a Canon 18 - 55mm and a Quantaray 70-300mm. I live on the beach
so I can make good use of the 70-300mm lens. I love its speed. The Olympus was so slow to
write. Using the Sandisk Ultra II, I can easily take quick repetitive shots.
Before I got the Canon I asked experts and I lurked in alt.photography a while until I
found someone knowledgeable and asked his advice. The rest is history.
Dave
| Dave,
| Wow that is a good price ! And I thought that the $39 at Staples was good. I
| will have to give buy.com a try as I often hear after I bought what I
| thought was a good price, that buy.com was still lower.
|
| One question. How do you like your Canon EOS Digital Rebel ? I tried one out
| at the local camera store and loved it. reminds me alot of my Canon Elan II
| 35 MM. I have an older Nikon Coolpix 995 which is a good camera, but I
| really miss the feel of a 35 MM and real thru the lens viewing also. However
| the local camera store seems to push the Minolta A1 as the best camera, It
| is a neat camera with its "tracking focus" (ie it locks onto whatever you
| click and will follow and focus, seems great for sports shots) I just like
| the look and feel of the Canon EOS and have not talked to anyone that has
| one, but I have seen some sample prints and they are outstanding, especially
| in the color saturation, they seem the most real of almost any camera I have
| seen.
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| Tedd Riggs
| PDA Square Content Developer
|
www.pdasquare.com
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|
| | > Tedd:
| >
| > Buy.com has the 8 in 1 for approx. $31.00 and the 6 in 1 is for slightly
| less.
| >
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10352362&sp=1&loc=101
| >
| > Buy.com seems to always beat the prices of; Officemax, Staples, Circuit
| City, etc. When
| > objects are in-stock, prices can change daily.
| >
| > When I bought my Canon EOS Digital Rebel, the same location wanted to sell
| a 256MB Compact
| > Flash card for $80.00 that was 3.6MB/s. I paid $59.00 for SanDisk Ultra
| II 256 MB Compact
| > Flash cards that are 9MB/s. (9MBs write and 10MB/s read)
| >
| > Dave
| >
| >
| >
| > | > | My other 2 cent comment.
| > | I agree the Sandisk reader is one of the best on the market and a great
| > | price (around $40 at Staples), there is a 6-1 card reader that has just
| been
| > | replaced with the 8-1 card reader, they look exactly the same and the
| same
| > | price. If you can, hold out for the 8-1, Staples let me trade my 6-1 in
| for
| > | the 8-1 with no additional charge and I think that is Sandisks policy
| also.
| > | Tedd
| > |
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| > | Tedd Riggs
| > | PDA Square Content Developer
| > |
www.pdasquare.com
| > |
| > |
| > | | > | > I agree w/Steve. Using Memory Card Readers is the better way to go. I
| > | haven't found any
| > | > real advantage to connecting a Digital Camera to the PC.
| > | >
| > | > I highly recommend SanDisk. They make excellent readers and the best,
| and
| > | fastest, memory
| > | > cards and
http://www.buy.com/ is a good place to obtain both. In
| fact
| > | Canon branded
| > | > Compact Flash cards are OEM SanDisk cards.
| > | >
| > | > Dave
| > | >
| > | >
| > | >
| > | > | > | > | I have found that it is much easier to use a card/stick reader for
| > | > | transferring pictures from a digital camera. It is fast and doesn't
| use
| > | the
| > | > | camera battery. The readers are very cheap, or even free. I got two
| free
| > | > | (after rebates) from Office Max.
| > | > |
| > | > | Steve C. Ray
| > | > | Replace "mail" with "36db"
| > | > | | > | > | > My PC seems to do all the right things to detect and guide
| > | > | > me through the installation process for my new digital
| > | > | > camera - a Sony DSC-P52. However, right at the end of the
| > | > | > installation, the PC shows a small message at the bottom
| > | > | > right hand side of the screen telling me that there has
| > | > | > been a problem in the process and that my hardware may not
| > | > | > work.
| > | > | > PS - the same thing happened when I tried to install a
| > | > | > modem for Broadband. Spent many hours between AOL and the
| > | > | > PC supplier, each passing the buck to the other.
| > | > | > Eventually, I dumped the broadband idea.
| > | > | >
| > | > | > Help ???
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