[P1] scanner advice

[Larry Kollar]

> Myself, I chose to purchase the Canon Powershot A80, a 4 mp wonder 
> that I
> recommend highly. It works very well with my Canon i860 photo printer.

I second that recommendation. I have one as well. It's extremely 
versatile;
it has full auto mode, full manual mode, and just about anything in 
between.

If you get one, read the manual -- twice -- to get it all down. On my 
second
reading, for example, I found out that you can set the flash intensity 
in
manual mode; I wish I'd known about that a month or so ago when I was
shooting a box I'm writing a manual for at work. :-P

Other nice things: it uses AA batteries and Compact Flash cards, so if
you're on the road, you can pop into any chain drug store for supplies. 
The
LCD monitor flips out and rotates around. It has a self-timer, 
rapid-fire mode,
and a bunch of other things I haven't decided whether I need or not.

If it had dials for setting aperture & shutter speed, instead of using 
menus,
it would be dang near perfect.
--
Larry Kollar    k  o  l  l  a  r  @  a  l  l  t  e  l  .  n  e  t
"The hardest part of all this is the part that requires thinking."
-- Paul Tyson, on xml-doc