New Kodak DX749 digital camera

[Happy Monkey]

Don't speak too quickly - I've got over 3000 photos on my hard drive.

[slang]

Fargon

My preference would actually be a Canon or a Nikon dig cam but there is a strong family connection to Rochester NY, the home of Kodak.

That's basically the only reason to have one IMO. It's about the same as the others in that class and model configuration.

It seems that there are no huge differences between the models except for the features available and those are essentially the same anyway.

HM

It sounds like we take and collect photos the same way. The top 10% of the photos are generally shared. Many people really like those top ten but dont realize that there is another 90% deleted or on my hard drive.

If you take enough photos....everyone gets lucky.

Nice link with the fucker too.

[Elspode]

In the "affordable" range, I lust for a Canon Digital Rebel SLR. In the sky's the limit range, well...I haven't even bothered looking, truth be known.

[busterb]

Originally Posted by Elspode

In the "affordable" range, I lust for a Canon Digital Rebel SLR. In the sky's the limit range, well...I haven't even bothered looking, truth be known.

Same here, afraid to look. Might spend my house insurance rebuild money on one.

[slang]

Originally Posted by busterb

Same here, afraid to look. Might spend my house insurance rebuild money on one.

You didnt ask but take a look at what's available now. The prices are coming down and even those cheap $55 dig cams created some decent photos.

The key seems to be in the practice. Knowing the limitiations of the camera and what photos will come out as your expect before you even set the scene up.

Hopefully you will find one that you would like in a price range that you are comfortable with. Not everyone will be a huge shutterbug after getting their first or second camera but it's cheap entertainment since the developing aspect has past away.

[slang]

Originally Posted by Elspode

In the "affordable" range, I lust for a Canon Digital Rebel SLR. In the sky's the limit range, well...I haven't even bothered looking, truth be known.

Yes, that Rebel is very nice. A friend's wife has one and does pro-photography as her primary income.

At 8 MP with all those nice features, even the $1000 price tag doesnt seem unreasonable.

This is the big daddy that I'd hope to take to Iraq, with a lesser quality backup.

This one runs between $7-8000 and the memory cards required for something like this would reasonably run half that for a trip to Iraq.

The expectation that the images could be downloaded into any type of mobile computer would be silly IMO.

Something like that would require a currior to hand off the memory cards for a quick trip to Baghdad, and then "overnight" shipping back to the US, most likely to Toad or someone with high end computery equipment and the expertise to use them.

How would that work out really? Who knows? If I took a trip to that sort of dangerous/remote location...the cards would be sent back here, not CDs or even DVDs. Between the harsh climate, dust and sand, all with a place that might not even have western style electrical outlets this method seems most reasonable.

Would another lesser quality camera suffice? Sure, but as these cameras make advances this high end Canon would be surely be useful for a few years anyway.

Most of the images that one captures in life dont need a spectacular camera. If I was to go somewhere like Iraq it would seem that more of those images than normal here would be great.

The whole idea of taking a pro-camera somewhere that they dont normally have pictures taken does seem more than appealing though.