Digital Camera recommendations ...

[Kurt Wall]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 07:57:15AM -0500, John Voigt took 73 lines to write:
; On 12/22/2004 08:18 PM, Kurt Wall eloquently noted:
; 
; <snip>
; 
; >I was just admiring the Fujifilm FinePix S3100. $299 at Office Depot
; >with a $100 mail-in rebate...
; >
; >Kurt
; 
; Hi all,
; 
; I have a FinePix S3000 (3.2 Mpix/6x optical zoom) and it's turned out to 
; be an excellent camera for the money. It appears that the S3100 is a New 
; and Improved(tm) version of the S3000. I generally shoot film with an old 
; "built like a tank" Canon FTb and an FT as a backup, as I really like the 
; old manual SLR stuff. That said, when I bought a digital (for fun stuff 
; mostly) I tried to find something reasonably-priced, and ended up with the 
; FinePix.

I like the price on the FinePix S3100, especially after the rebate.

; Things I like:
; 
; - Very SLR-like. The viewfinder actually uses the CCD rather than a 
; separate optical lens (avoids parallax). Pretty much WYSIWYG. You can 
; easily switch between the viewfinder and the screen.

I had to look up parallax. Now I know, and it sounds like a good thing.
WYSIWYG is precisely what I'd want. I take it that's what old-fasioned
SLRs do?

; - Uses standard AA batteries or equivalent rechargeables.

My current HP210 eats batteries voraciously.

; - OS agnostic. It appears as USB mass storage.

Good.

; Things I don't like:
; 
; - Eats batteries for lunch.

Breakfast, dinner, snacks, and second breakfast...
 
; - Filenames are always the same, so you'll need to rename the files when 
; downloading them from the camera so they don't conflict with the last set.

Silly.

Kurt
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