There are some good points in these posts, the 1.3 megapixel number gives
me a chuckle because back in '97 or so, the Nikon E3s was Nikon's industiral
photography/commercial digital SLR. Built on an F4 body using a Fuji CCD
chip...it's res. is 1280x1000 and was a 1.3 megapixel camera basically. By
the time we got all the battery packs, cards etc. (we have a Nikon system,
and this camera gives a full view with most lenses, unlike a D1), the cost
came close to $8000 or so. Then the D1 came out, with twice the res or more,
and at half the cost...so yeah, digital cameras can drop dramatically in
price. Just look at the Coolpix cameras, and how every couple of months,
they drop $100 or so...even the D1 will drop with the new one coming out.
It's all the price of progress with digital cameras.

I also don't consider a CD or digital media to be a long lasting archival
format...could just be me....and there's the color fidelity issue as well.

If you shoot film under fluorescent light sources, you'll have a very hard
time getting an accurate color balance. With a digital camera you should be
able to tweak the white balance of the camera (most cheap cameras will do
this now) to match the light source. I'm guessing your Olympus doesn't have
a fine tune control on it, but you should be able to get close. Fluorescent
lights are really bad light sources in general....unless they're the
high-end types used in video work now. If you mix light sources. there will
problems as well...so if you're using the little strobe on the camera, you
may be able to trick the camera by gelling the flash with a "plus green"
filter....just get all the light the same color...

I've found that with shooting with our camera, that it's response is very
close to shooting chrome film, i.e. very little latitude. You have to nail
your exposures...fixing an image in photoshop, is very close to fixing it
in a lab. What I mean is, do it right at first and save yourself the
headaches.

Kent Thompson,  Photographer
North Carolina Museum of History

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