"Alfonso J. Lebrón-Bergés" wrote:

If you are going into digital cameras go for those with equal or larger
than two Megapixels capacity. They cost more but as the time passes you
will not regret that and the capabilities it will give you. The 1,3
Megapixel types are being sold like cookies today but these have just
completed their useful lifespan. If in doubt, just rent one of the
former, shoot and compare. Almost 35 mm quality.

Best of lucks

Alfonso Lebron-Berges

I am mainly looking for something to upload to the internet.
Beyond a certain pixel count the files get too big to upload.
I have a Nikon for good printed pictures.

Paul Lamar

Dale Smith wrote:

I second the motion re: older 1.3 megapixel digital cameras vs. the newer 2+
megapixel types.  Ultimate resolution should be your goal and this is still
poor, compared to film.  You can always crop your digital photos and run them
through a utility such as "jpeg optimizer" (Windoze).  This will generally
reduce its' file size to 5% of original (for internet transmission and
bandwidth considerations), with VERY little loss of clarity.

You can reduce file size easily, but you cannot gain clarity, especially if
your original picture file was short of pixels to begin with.

Go with the most pixels you can afford.  The ability to have a "floppy disk"
transfer medium is vastly overrated.  Memory "sticks" of 32 mb. and 64 mb.
are becoming quite common, and USB transfer to your computer beats swapping
floppies any day.

Not to my way of thinking. You need a program and a cable and a port
some place. A lot of older computers do not have USB ports and I am
not going to upgrade for that reason alone. None of my computers
have USB ports. Also I don't run Windows
so anything to do with that is out. A floppy is real easy by
comparison and they are cheap and readily available anywhere.
You can give them away with pictures on them. Try that with
memory sticks and you will soon go broke :-)

Paul Lamar

BTW just in case you think I cannot reduce the size of a jpg because 
I am not running  Windoze take a look at this. :-)

Also BTW Sony has a high rez camera with floppy for about $1400 but 
I don't want to pay anywhere near that much. The price on these
things will drop like rocks over the next couple of years.
 
Paul Lamar
 
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