![]() ![]() It cost $1000 at the time (now down to $600), but I was so spoiled by the D-220L digital camera that I never took pictures of the kids anymore with the film camera, so I needed a digital camera good enough for portraits of the kids. If you'd like to see what it's capable of, check out this snapshot of my son Jordan that I made a few minutes after taking it out of the box (at, 512Kb). I know an Agfa that I bought at first wouldn't do both at the same time, because the same button toggled between them!īack in December of 1999 I bought an Olympus C-2500L, an SLR digital camera that rivals film cameras in versatility and picture quality. When buying a camera, make sure that it will do both self timer and "flash suppress" at the same time. Rather than letting the camera blast the subject with the strobe, I set it up on a tripod and set the self timer to eliminate camera shake induced by pushing the shutter button. That means the rather smallish 8M Smartcard will hold 80 pictures before you have to download, or just pop another one in for another 80 pictures.īut the real secret to my photography is "available light". A little compression (using something like Paintshop) will get it down to 30K or so, with no real image degradation. And each 640x480 photo is only 100k, uncompressed. ![]() At an average cost of $10 per roll (which includes developing) I saved the company $1125! Batteries are rechargeable, so the cost was just about nothing! And the beauty is that we can email pictures (like we did from Wales) or transport every one of them on a single CD. Several of us went to Wales for 6 weeks on business, and we took 2700 pictures with my D-220L. It's already paid for itself several times. At web resolutions (640x480), you really can't tell the difference in the two, but the $250 digital camera sure saved a lot of time, and film. From then until late in 1999, I used an Olympus D-220L digital camera. Up until early 1998, and took them with a Canon film camera and scanned them at 72 dpi. People are always asking me how I make the pictures that appear on my web site.
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