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Sep. 25th, 2003
Digital Camera
Sep. 25th, 2003 08:58 pmSo yeah... I need to either buy one or not buy one and stop wasting time thinking about it. I like Rachel's advice of getting the best one I can afford, except that none of the ones I am looking at will particularly break the bank right this second. I mean, I have no idea what I can afford. I'm worth negative amounts of money anyway when you take into account the student loans I've got anyway, so a little more (or a lot more) isn't really going to hurt that much, is it? Well, I expect that it isn't, and I'm worried that it is. On the other hand, if I end up tight up for cash after I graduate, I wont be able to buy myself any new toys at all and I'll be happy that I already have a nice (or not so nice) camera.
And then there is the thing of wanting to be able to take nice pictures for yearbook. Sure, there is a yearbook camera, but that can only be borrowed so much and I'd have to know ahead of time that I'd want it.
Now, after talking with a friend from home (I was really impressed by her photos with her camera, which turned out to be only 2MP), I'm thinking I should save myself some money and get a 2MP camera instead of a 3MP or 4MP camera since her photos looked really great (plenty of resolution), and I'm reading that you get prints that are undicernable from a real photo at the size I am used to having prints in, so I'd still be happy with the prints I'd get from it. She was saying that sometimes she gets annoyed that she can't take hi-resolution shots with it, but generally she doesn't want them but takes them anyway with her larger camera and then just runs herself out of memory. I hadn't thought about that before, but I think I'd have the same problem and I wouldn't just be paying another $80 for another MP now, I'd have to keep paying for the extra MP. Besides, I'm buying myself a fricken point and shoot camera. Josh and I are going to buy ourselves a nice (film or digital) camera with all the bells and whistles and settings after we have more money anyway, but I'm still going to want a camera that fits easily into my pocket and a camera for right now. Also, the 2MP version of the camera I'm looking at uses AA batteries instead of custom camera batteries, which could be good for "emergencies," and I've already got a battery charger for those. Also, the 2MP version has a minimum focal length of 10mm instead of 15mm. In all other ways they are exactly the same.
--Talked on phone with Josh for a while--
Yeah, so my decision is the Minolta Dimage X20. With the $80ish I'm saving I'm going to buy a 256MB secure digital card and a PCMCIA card reader because connecting with cords is annoying and eats batteries.
And then there is the thing of wanting to be able to take nice pictures for yearbook. Sure, there is a yearbook camera, but that can only be borrowed so much and I'd have to know ahead of time that I'd want it.
Now, after talking with a friend from home (I was really impressed by her photos with her camera, which turned out to be only 2MP), I'm thinking I should save myself some money and get a 2MP camera instead of a 3MP or 4MP camera since her photos looked really great (plenty of resolution), and I'm reading that you get prints that are undicernable from a real photo at the size I am used to having prints in, so I'd still be happy with the prints I'd get from it. She was saying that sometimes she gets annoyed that she can't take hi-resolution shots with it, but generally she doesn't want them but takes them anyway with her larger camera and then just runs herself out of memory. I hadn't thought about that before, but I think I'd have the same problem and I wouldn't just be paying another $80 for another MP now, I'd have to keep paying for the extra MP. Besides, I'm buying myself a fricken point and shoot camera. Josh and I are going to buy ourselves a nice (film or digital) camera with all the bells and whistles and settings after we have more money anyway, but I'm still going to want a camera that fits easily into my pocket and a camera for right now. Also, the 2MP version of the camera I'm looking at uses AA batteries instead of custom camera batteries, which could be good for "emergencies," and I've already got a battery charger for those. Also, the 2MP version has a minimum focal length of 10mm instead of 15mm. In all other ways they are exactly the same.
--Talked on phone with Josh for a while--
Yeah, so my decision is the Minolta Dimage X20. With the $80ish I'm saving I'm going to buy a 256MB secure digital card and a PCMCIA card reader because connecting with cords is annoying and eats batteries.