On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Margaret Tamulonis wrote:

> I have been happily researching digital cameras to find one best suited for
> our use: good color images of museum objects (including paintings), for
> attaching to database records as well as for posting to our web site.
> While I know there are lots of digital-camera specific sites and discussion
> groups, I really appreciate the opinions of the folks on this Museum list
> -- so does anyone have any particular favorite digital cameras that are
> great for object photography? Any horror stories?  Thanks, as always, for
> your input and support,


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Margaret:

I'm simply amazed by the quality, performance and ease of use and transfer
of the "budget" Fujifilm FinePix 2200 that I got a couple of weeks ago for
around US$ 300 - including our very high UK sales tax.  This has three
grades of image - up to 2.1 megapixels, though even the lowest level
produces perfectly adequate images for web or publicity/press level
printing, a one inch screen and a built-in electronic zoom of up to 2.5
times. The basic memory card that comes with the camera (8 Mb) holds
between around 30 web-grade images, down to to around a dozen at top level
art reproduction standard.

Though much larger media memory cards can be used, transfers to an
up-to-date standard laptop (or a desk PC back home or in the office) is
extremely easy and quick.  Using a standard USB connection cord in Windows
98 the camera shows as the equivalent of an additional hard drive with all
images on screen, from where they can "drag & drop" copied onto an
appropriate directory on the hard disk in any normal way, e.g. in Windows
Explorer.

No doubt there are much more sophisticated (and expensive) machines now on
the market, but I am simply astonished at the advances in technology and
capacity, and the fall in prices, in less than a year.



Patrick Boylan

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