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| 141096 | 2003-05-03 13:42:00 | Are digital cameras better than normal 35mm cameras picture quality wise?? I am looking at Canon Powershot S45. What are the adv of Digital cameras over normal ones? I know digt ones dont need film and you can view images instantaneously...but are there any other major adv?? Cheers |
Ritzz (731) | ||
| 141097 | 2003-05-03 21:33:00 | Depending, but Digital cameras are usually not as good as 35mm cameras, esp. if you've got a good camera. Digital Cameras these days - esp ones over 2 megapixels are probably getting close, and normal users won't notice the difference. The main advantage is that you can download the photos to your computer, and either print them, or email/put on the web for friends/family to see. You can also edit them to create interesting combination photos (somebody's head on someone elses body :D) If you like real photos and you like storing them in a real photo album, then it's probably best to stick to your 35mm camera. You can however, print photos from your digital camera onto special photo paper, and get almost-35mm quality prints. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 141098 | 2003-05-03 22:29:00 | Did you know that for the first time ever in AUSTRALIA Digital cameras have out sold others........in the last 3 months. The price of digital cameras has come down heaps in the last 3 years........ A normal photo with a SLR lenses takes photos of 20,000 pixels whereas a digital is what you are willing to pay top now about 6000 pixels BUT the normal eye can not tell the difference..at about 2.5 thousnd pixels I have the personal belief that the future is in DIGITAL CAMERAS as in the increasing computerized world digital photography will win the day... |
olldaddy76 (2539) | ||
| 141099 | 2003-05-03 23:05:00 | as someone has said, the 35mm cameras are far better than digi. i am a keen photograher - i will buy a F100 Nikon 35mm next. digi remains to be seen. a great review is here [url=http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Canon/canon_s45.asp]DPReview the Canon powershot is high recommended. advs = can connect to PC, no film wasting, can preview, can edit a bit on camera, can delete and retake if pic was not gd enof, faster for emailing etc.. without the need to scan, no need to process photo so cheaper. disadv = quality not as gd as 35mm, but its sufficient for majority, digi is expensive ie.. $1k u can get a SLR 35mm with a 300mm lense, memory card and battery is limited. u cannot shoot many high quality tif photo cos the mem card gets full. u can shoot jpg thou which should be ok for the majority users, battery is also a worry esp if u happen to be travellling. i hear u can get a 1hr quick charger and u can get a external hard drive that is connected by wire instead of one memory card so u can have GB's of room to store TIF photo's. with a typical digicam price of $1k u can get a comparable camera of like $400 and $600 worth of photo to process and u get them on photo paper. this is how $$ a digicam is. sometimes u want a digiphoto on photo paper (the better ones) shops does this for about $1-1.50 per photo. just take the mem card to them. some of the compact digicam can also take lense extenders, and hoods anf filters, tripods too! Nomad |
nomad (3693) | ||
| 141100 | 2003-05-03 23:07:00 | DP Review (www.dpreview.com) correction :D |
nomad (3693) | ||
| 141101 | 2003-05-03 23:47:00 | Digital cameras are fantastic! I bought HWMO one for his birthday recently and he and I have had so much fun with it . We have taken loads and loads of photos and use it far more than we ever used the normal 35mm camera . Why? Because we can take as many photos as we like for just the cost of recharging the battery . One of the best things about it is that you can see what you have taken immediately and decide whether it is any good or not and take more pictures until you are satisfied . So if what you thought was a great shot turns out to be a dud because the camera strap was dangling over the lens (duh!) you can take another one instead of being disappointed when the prints are done . As said previously, you can load and view your photos on the computer immediately, and have the picture filling up the entire screen in great detail instead of looking at a puny 6x4 bit of paper . The best ones can be selected and printed out, either on your own printer (if it is capable of good photo printing) or by the photo shop to put in your album, if that is what you like . Personally, I would rather have a few CDs full of photos to look at either on the computer or on the TV with DVD player than have a cupboard full of albums that get looked at a couple of times per year . Another plus for us is that the digital camera I chose, the Canon IXUS V3, takes way better photos than our automatic normal 35mm one . If you have a good quality SLR camera you may notice a difference, though . You might like to read the digital camera thread ( . pcworld . co . nz/thread . jsp?forum=1&thread=31907" target="_blank">pressf1 . pcworld . co . nz) that I started as it has a lot of good information in it . The digital camera is one of the best toys I have ever bought (after my computer, of course!) and good ones are so much more affordable than they were a year or so ago . |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 141102 | 2003-05-04 00:32:00 | Yes, I too am saving/waiting to buy a Canon Powershot S45. I see in your thread Susan B that Bruce Buckman says he has reviewed a Canon L45. Does he mean a S45 - and I don't have that copy of FFWD. Is anyone able to tell me where I could see what he said (presuming he is talking about the S45) Thanks R.M. |
R.M. (561) | ||
| 141103 | 2003-05-04 01:18:00 | Digital vs Film depends entirely on what you want. It is a pain in the ass, and more expensive if you want positive prints of all your photos and you have a digital camera, however if you want digital copies of your photos, and you have a film camera its also a pain in the ass having to scan them all. Watch out for places tauting "5x" zoom etc, because when they say 5x, they dont mean 5x in the sense that most people think. 5x zoom, means that the highest zoom power, is 5 x the smallest zoom power. And the catch, is that the lowest zoom power isnt 1x, its abou 0.5x. So a 5x zoom camera, will let you photograph things around 2.5x reality. There is a trade off between optical zoom and image quality. Most cameras either give good optical zoom, or they give good image quality. You want to make sure you have one of the two, because digital zoom degrades picture quality, and if the quality isnt that flash to begin with then youve had it. Dont worry about the digital zoom on a camera, you will get better quality enlargements using software like Photoshop, plus you still have the original image to work with. Quality wise, if the original file is around 100Kb or bigger in JPEG format, then you will get 4x6 photos that the human eye cant tell from film photos, about 250Kb and you will get reasonable quality 8x10. I dont know what the status is at the moment, but I would advise looking overseas if you want a really good digital camera. I bought the Olympus CZ-700Ultra Zoom through an online retailer in New York, and while it is a lot more hassle... bank transfers, customs duty, insurance, postage time, after all the costs I still saved $1000 on what it would have cost me in NZ. Having said that, about 6 months after I bought it, the NZ price dropped by about $1000... so it may not necessarily hold. |
Iain Walmsley (3372) | ||
| 141104 | 2003-05-04 01:36:00 | err... I think you might have the number of pixels wrong there.. | somebody (208) | ||
| 141105 | 2003-05-04 02:27:00 | This is going off the topic a little bit - but i was wondering, with Digital cameras, can you make a index print? You know like a page or smaller with thumbnails of all the photos u have taken? I know this can be done with normal film cameras, but is it possible with digital cameras? I myself am also looking at buying a new camera in duty free when i go overseas later this year, and am weighing up the pros and cons of getting a film camera VS a digital camera . cheers, caffy |
caffy (2665) | ||
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