[Ti] traveling overseas need tech advice

[T Molnar]

Yes Tarik,
The film / digital dilemma :-)

I to like the "feel" of "real" film/negatives :-)
My daughter and will be discussing this all over this week.

Just wish I was going to Europe, oh well, someday I hope.

cheers,
tim

On Jun 14, 2004, at 1:38 AM, Tarik Bilgin wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> --
> Tarik
>
>
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