[Ti] traveling overseas need tech advice

[Tarik Bilgin]

Personally there is nothing more pleasurable than taking photos with my 
SLR (Nikon F-3) or Rangefinder (Contax G1) when travelling. But there 
are some serious advantages and disadvantages to using a digital setup.

-  high initial cost of a decent (for me decent is, say, a Fuji finepix 
with 5+ Megapixels)  digital camera (compared to say a second hand  
SLR)

+ low cost/time to get photos developed (no development necessary)

+ To be able to upload all your photos (to your Powerbook -- I think 
this is also doable with an iPod)  and then edit (read trash) them each 
night is an absolute dream. If she wants to keep the journal up-to-date 
as things happen it's great too, cause she can just pop into an 
Internet cafe and put them live on to the WWW.

These days digital cameras are great, especially because you can use 
them so easily in places where you wouldn't normally take a camera 
(e.g. in a nightclub) especially as they tend to be very compact and 
unintrusive. However for me the pleasure of handling real photos (or if 
you are braver, slides) and looking at the colours is priceless. Colour 
is where most of the digital cameras seem to fail miserably at the 
moment. The saturation and verity of colours from a £150 Contax SLR 
(from ebay) outclasses those from a £300 Fuji digi.


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Tarik