Guide to your Perfect Digital Camera

Alan Dang writes "I've just posted a new digital camera buyer's guide at FiringSquad titled A Tale of Two Cameras. It explains why the digital SLR may not be the best camera for you, and helps you narrow down your holiday digital camera buying to a short list."

Is this article really up?

[Jucius Maximus]

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Re:No Flash

[Jucius Maximus]

"Does anyone have a mirror which doesn't depend on Flash?"

http://www.steves-digicams.com [steves-digicams.com]
http://www.dpreview.com [dpreview.com]

Karma-whoring Article Text:

[loteck]

Aw, damnit.

Re:Yay

[adeydas]

i believe a review in simple words with a pictures would have been much much better... after all /. 'ers are busy geeks, you know... ;)

Whichever one your friend spent more money on

[gelfling]

Is the perfect one. At least that's what he tells me.

Well, what did you expect?

[Weaselmancer]

A camera without flash would be pretty useless.

Re:Yay

[harrkev]

Come on. Give me a break. People into photography HAVE to use flash. If you don't use flash at night, everything is dark! Even during daylight, you can use a fill flash to even out harsh shadows. Indoors, bouncing the flash off of the ceiling will result in more even lighting.

Give me SLR or give me death

[HarveyBirdman]

Gotta have an SLR with the ability to put on different lenses, like a macro/micro lens so I can take creepy close-up pictures of bugs and other visions of the microcosmos [amazon.com]. I also want to attach one to a telescope.

And that X-Ray Spec lens that removes the clothing from every person of whom you take a picture. It's polarized so it will only remove women's clothing, but if you are so inclined, rotate it 90 degrees and it will remove men's clothing, but the women will all look like busty Dark Elves, so not a complete loss.

I might have dreamt that second lens.

Re:Nice, but late...

[imroy]

I've handed down my old Olympus 460Z to my daughter (4 1/2 years old) to play with, and she's having a blast.

I can imagine. I got my first camera when I was closer to 7 or 8 (9?). My brother and I each got a Kodak disc camera [wikipedia.org] for christmas. I used up most of my first two discs (15 exposures each!) just photographing my presents. I calmed down a bit after that :) They went into the closet after a few years because of the inconvenience of only 15 exposures and the trouble of getting new film. If there was anything important to photograph then we used my mums' much better 35mm compact. Now with the extreme convenience of digital photography, I can't imagine going back to such a world. Well, except for semi-serious photography [kievaholic.com].

So what sort of things does a 4.5 y/o with a digicam photograph? How does she handle transferring the photos to a PC? And/or does she use the composite video out?

Re:Decent very basic primer...

[HarveyBirdman]

If you have a group picture of your child's soccer team, and want to cut him out...

"Mommy, why am I cut out of the soccer team picture?"

"Because you're ugly and I hate you, son. Why can't you be pretty like that Robertson kid?"

"Waaaaah!"

"Shut up and get back to pushing the wheel of pain."

Yeah, yeah, I know what you really meant.

Re:Yay

[kLaNk]

You got that right! 99% CPU usage just to view a freakin' text because the author thought it was cool to do it with flash? What a waste of bandwidth...

Whaaaat? 99% CPU usage?

Trying to view it using your 8086 again?

White space

[Cumstien]

In graphic design (including web) clear white space is a powerful tool.

I couldn't agree more.

Re:Article not useful

[Terminal Saint]

I tried the Sharpie, but now my eyes just sting...