On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 10:50:30 -0500, "Sir Rodney Smithers" Ask me
about my knighthood. wrote:

Jim and Jim,

I was told by a salesman in the store (and we all know how little they
know), that for blowing up a picture to 4X6 or 5X7 that all I will need is a
5mp camera. She said I would not be able to tell the diff between a 5 and a
7mp camera on a computer screen or photos, as long as i didn't blow it up
extra large.

Is this accurate?


Can I get by with a 4mp or will I see a difference between 4 and 5 mp?




"John H." wrote in message
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On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 09:56:05 -0500, "Sir Rodney Smithers" Ask me
about my knighthood. wrote:

JohnH,

I screwed up. I need to update my criteria.

I want the best combination of compact size, quality and PRICE.

Thank you for your help. ; )


ps I can get the powershot a610 for $269 vs. $699 for the Nikon.

Remember this is a college student.

"John H." wrote in message
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On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 09:26:54 -0500, "Sir Rodney Smithers" Ask me about
my
knighthood. wrote:

I am trying to find a camera for my college age daughter.

I want the best combination of compact size and quality.

Does anyone have any recommendations of cameras I should look at?

Does anyone have any experience with the Canon PowerShot A610 Digital
Camera?



Get her the Nikon D50. Then, in a few years, she can upgrade to the
Nikon
D2X.

http://www.penncamera.com/store/item...ARTMENT_ID=329

She'll love you.
--
John H

"It's *not* a baby kicking, bride of mine, it's just a fetus!"

A Famous Hypocrite


She'll be happy with the Canon A610. I'd look also at this one.

http://www.penncamera.com/store/item...ARTMENT_ID=330

My daughter has a Nikon Coolpix 4500 (a couple years old now), and she
loves it.


--
John H

"It's *not* a baby kicking, bride of mine, it's just a fetus!"

A Famous Hypocrite


For $50 or so, I'd go with the 5. It's not just the 8x10 capability,
it's the 4x6 capability after you've cropped the picture.
--
John H

"It's *not* a baby kicking, bride of mine, it's just a fetus!"

A Famous Hypocrite

"Sir Rodney Smithers" Ask me about my knighthood. wrote in message
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Jim and Jim,

I was told by a salesman in the store (and we all know how little they
know), that for blowing up a picture to 4X6 or 5X7 that all I will need is
a 5mp camera. She said I would not be able to tell the diff between a 5
and a 7mp camera on a computer screen or photos, as long as i didn't blow
it up extra large.

Is this accurate?


IMO Yes.



Can I get by with a 4mp or will I see a difference between 4 and 5 mp?

I used to have a 3.2 mp Sony Mavica and the picture quality was great. I do
not think you will see a difference, but I am not an expert.

On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 10:14:23 -0500, "Sir Rodney Smithers" Ask me
about my knighthood. wrote:

JimH,
I had heard that Kodak was junk, after your recommendations, I checked their
line closer. They have a full range of quality and prices, and the Kodak
EasyShare V530 is competitively priced with the Canon, and got PC Mags
"Editors 'Choice". I will check this out.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1877621,00.asp

Thanks a lot.

ps -

" *JimH*" wrote in message
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"Sir Rodney Smithers" Ask me about my knighthood. wrote in message
...
I am trying to find a camera for my college age daughter.

I want the best combination of compact size and quality.

Does anyone have any recommendations of cameras I should look at?

Does anyone have any experience with the Canon PowerShot A610 Digital
Camera?




Kodak makes some nice point and shoot cameras under their easyshare line:

http://tinyurl.com/7wqt7



It's interesting that this subject came up this morning. I'm now
considering the purchase of a Nikon D200 body, which I just started
thinking of this morning.

--
John H

"It's *not* a baby kicking, bride of mine, it's just a fetus!"

A Famous Hypocrite

"Sir Rodney Smithers" Ask me about my knighthood. wrote in message
...
JohnH,

I screwed up. I need to update my criteria.

I want the best combination of compact size, quality and PRICE.

Thank you for your help. ; )


ps I can get the powershot a610 for $269 vs. $699 for the Nikon.

Remember this is a college student.

"John H." wrote in message
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On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 09:26:54 -0500, "Sir Rodney Smithers" Ask me about
my
knighthood. wrote:

I am trying to find a camera for my college age daughter.

I want the best combination of compact size and quality.

Does anyone have any recommendations of cameras I should look at?

Does anyone have any experience with the Canon PowerShot A610 Digital
Camera?



Get her the Nikon D50. Then, in a few years, she can upgrade to the Nikon
D2X.

http://www.penncamera.com/store/item...ARTMENT_ID=329

She'll love you.
--
John H

"It's *not* a baby kicking, bride of mine, it's just a fetus!"

A Famous Hypocrite



Get the Pentax S5i. Just got one for my daughter and we used it for a
weekend in the sierras. Daughter had our Nikon coolpix. Was $299 at
Costco, but cheaper on the i-net. 5 megapixal and about 1/2 the size of a
cigarette pack. Good optical zoom. Get a 1 gig card for an extra $80 and
she is good to go.

"Sir Rodney Smithers" Ask me about my knighthood. wrote in message
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Jim and Jim,

I was told by a salesman in the store (and we all know how little they
know), that for blowing up a picture to 4X6 or 5X7 that all I will need is
a 5mp camera. She said I would not be able to tell the diff between a 5
and a 7mp camera on a computer screen or photos, as long as i didn't blow
it up extra large.

Is this accurate?


Can I get by with a 4mp or will I see a difference between 4 and 5 mp?




"John H." wrote in message
news
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 09:56:05 -0500, "Sir Rodney Smithers" Ask me
about my knighthood. wrote:

JohnH,

I screwed up. I need to update my criteria.

I want the best combination of compact size, quality and PRICE.

Thank you for your help. ; )


ps I can get the powershot a610 for $269 vs. $699 for the Nikon.

Remember this is a college student.

"John H." wrote in message
...
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 09:26:54 -0500, "Sir Rodney Smithers" Ask me about
my
knighthood. wrote:

I am trying to find a camera for my college age daughter.

I want the best combination of compact size and quality.

Does anyone have any recommendations of cameras I should look at?

Does anyone have any experience with the Canon PowerShot A610 Digital
Camera?



Get her the Nikon D50. Then, in a few years, she can upgrade to the
Nikon
D2X.

http://www.penncamera.com/store/item...ARTMENT_ID=329

She'll love you.
--
John H

"It's *not* a baby kicking, bride of mine, it's just a fetus!"

A Famous Hypocrite


She'll be happy with the Canon A610. I'd look also at this one.

http://www.penncamera.com/store/item...ARTMENT_ID=330

My daughter has a Nikon Coolpix 4500 (a couple years old now), and she
loves it.


--
John H

"It's *not* a baby kicking, bride of mine, it's just a fetus!"

A Famous Hypocrite



For 4x6 all you need is a 2 mega pixal camera.

"Bill McKee" wrote in message
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"Sir Rodney Smithers" Ask me about my knighthood. wrote in message
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JohnH,

I screwed up. I need to update my criteria.

I want the best combination of compact size, quality and PRICE.

Thank you for your help. ; )


ps I can get the powershot a610 for $269 vs. $699 for the Nikon.

Remember this is a college student.

"John H." wrote in message
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On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 09:26:54 -0500, "Sir Rodney Smithers" Ask me about
my
knighthood. wrote:

I am trying to find a camera for my college age daughter.

I want the best combination of compact size and quality.

Does anyone have any recommendations of cameras I should look at?

Does anyone have any experience with the Canon PowerShot A610 Digital
Camera?



Get her the Nikon D50. Then, in a few years, she can upgrade to the
Nikon D2X.

http://www.penncamera.com/store/item...ARTMENT_ID=329

She'll love you.
--
John H

"It's *not* a baby kicking, bride of mine, it's just a fetus!"

A Famous Hypocrite



Get the Pentax S5i. Just got one for my daughter and we used it for a
weekend in the sierras. Daughter had our Nikon coolpix. Was $299 at
Costco, but cheaper on the i-net. 5 megapixal and about 1/2 the size of
a cigarette pack. Good optical zoom. Get a 1 gig card for an extra $80
and she is good to go.


Make that the Pentax Optio S5i

Bill,
Thanks a lot, I will check it out in the store.


"Bill McKee" wrote in message
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"Bill McKee" wrote in message
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"Sir Rodney Smithers" Ask me about my knighthood. wrote in message
...
JohnH,

I screwed up. I need to update my criteria.

I want the best combination of compact size, quality and PRICE.

Thank you for your help. ; )


ps I can get the powershot a610 for $269 vs. $699 for the Nikon.

Remember this is a college student.

"John H." wrote in message
...
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 09:26:54 -0500, "Sir Rodney Smithers" Ask me about
my
knighthood. wrote:

I am trying to find a camera for my college age daughter.

I want the best combination of compact size and quality.

Does anyone have any recommendations of cameras I should look at?

Does anyone have any experience with the Canon PowerShot A610 Digital
Camera?



Get her the Nikon D50. Then, in a few years, she can upgrade to the
Nikon D2X.

http://www.penncamera.com/store/item...ARTMENT_ID=329

She'll love you.
--
John H

"It's *not* a baby kicking, bride of mine, it's just a fetus!"

A Famous Hypocrite



Get the Pentax S5i. Just got one for my daughter and we used it for a
weekend in the sierras. Daughter had our Nikon coolpix. Was $299 at
Costco, but cheaper on the i-net. 5 megapixal and about 1/2 the size of
a cigarette pack. Good optical zoom. Get a 1 gig card for an extra $80
and she is good to go.


Make that the Pentax Optio S5i

Tom,

I am very impressed with the quality of your pictures.

All I have to say is you and JohnH suck.

I started out looking at nice cheap point and shot cameras, now I am
convinced I need to go with a DSLR so she can take more than stationary
pictures. I keep hearing the time delay on the shutter makes it hard to
take pictures when the subject is moving.

As I said, you and JohnH suck for even mentioning the DSLR, and I hope you
both end up in a special level of hell.

Before you go to hell though, can you check out this combo pack and let me
know what you think.

http://www.expresscameras.com/prodet...?prodid=362726



"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 06:33:49 -0500, "Sir Rodney Smithers" Ask me
about my knighthood. wrote:

Bill,
Thanks a lot, I will check it out in the store.

You would be better served going with a Olympus E-300 kit system.
Slightly decreased frame speed in action shots (2.5 fps vs 3.2 fps),
but the four/thirds capture is far superior to that produced with
standard CCD imagers. If you look around, you can still find them.
It's a great camera for little money now as Oly just introduced the
E-500. For that matter, for about $899, you can get a E-500 with the
same lens kit as the E-300. I was so impressed with the E-300 and
it's images, that I bought E-1 and E-500 bodies - I just swap lenses.
At these kind of prices, I use the E-300 as my kick around camera - it
goes with me everywhere.

Here are some images for you to look at.

http://www.swsports.org/images/

Two of these, (the Daemon images) are heavily processed, but you can't
process if you don't have anything to work with. The experiment#1/#2
images were post processed only for noise. I'll add a couple more
for you to look at in a few minutes.

The rest are straight shots taken over a couple of days. They
overlook my house and barn taken from a hill over three miles away.

The lens was OEM - Sigma 50-200mm zoom, manual focus.

If you want to discuss digital cameras, go to http://www.swsports.org
and follow the email instructions - I'll be glad to go through other
options with you.

Later,

Tom

Tom,
Thanks a lot. It seems to have a great price compared to the other DSLR.


"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 08:04:28 -0500, "Sir Rodney Smithers" Ask me
about my knighthood. wrote:

Before you go to hell though, can you check out this combo pack and let me
know what you think.

http://www.expresscameras.com/prodet...?prodid=362726

Glad I could help. :)

That's an excellent package, although I would spend the extra money
and obtain a 1 gig flash memory - you will kill that 256 in nothing
flat - I don't mean "kill" as in "broke" but kill as in limited
memory. The 1 gig card is a big help.

The latest firmware upgrade for the E-300 has really taken great
performance and made it better.

If you do decide to obtain this camera package, email me and I'll give
you some operating tips for the camera that I came about the hard way.

Good luck.

Tom

*JimH* wrote:

I used to have a 3.2 mp Sony Mavica and the picture quality was great. I do
not think you will see a difference, but I am not an expert.

Like the pictures you posted showing houses on Erie? If that's the
quality of pictures you get from your Sony, no thanks.