Digital Camera recommendations ...

[Bob Hemus]

Aakin N. Patel wrote:

>: The fuji has a night shot setting also. and some manual control of 
>: exposure. and a 6x optical zoom. Ha!
>: 
>: (Olympus makes a 10x optical zoom.)
>
>Yah. The I love the optical zoon. The S1 IS also has a 10x one, which
>is one reason I didn't mind that it was 3.2 MP. You don't need to crop
>when you can zoom right in.
>
>It's got an Image Stabilizer chip, too, which is really neat. It makes
>a pretty significant difference, although from what I understand, it 
>isn't as good as the higher end canon or the Nikon image stabilization.
>
>								- Aakin
>  
>
My oldest boy gave me a Canon A40 2 Christmases ago.  It has aperature 
control and shutter speed control.  I know how to use it, I spent $400 
on a Canon F-1 30 years ago with a 1.4 lens.  Had a darkroom and worked 
through Ansel Adams' exposure system.  Lost some vision in '79 so I just 
switched to snapshooting.  I'm too lazy to monkey around with long 
exposure, small diaphram, large diaphram, 2000 of a second exposures.  
The A40 does really well for me and the price was right!  I haven't 
tried to print through my HP990Sci printer??  Maybe I ought to try that?
Bob