This camera any good?

Re: This camera any good?

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>It's probably 1999/2000 vintage, so it probably has a Compact Flash storage device as well as an AC adapter. The Compact Flash will enable you to get a cheap card reader for your computer, maybe $10, to get the photos to the computer. All digital cameras are battery eaters, so the trick is to get a rechargeable pack or two and go to it, when you can be tethered, use the AC adapter.

Photo Deluxe is competent at basic manipulation. I forget whether that includes downsizing for web publishing, probably does.

In short, for purposes of photographing work to share here and basic documentation, it's a perfectly good camera, more than needed.

Pam

Re: This camera any good?

Ernie Miller Topeka

>It should be good enough for us. it will be good enough for ebay also clear pictures but no detail so every thing looks mint. Get it out and play with it only you will know the real answer. Posting stuff is dirt simple so give it a WAG

Re: This camera any good?

Jack from Maine

>Adobe Photo Deluxe is software for editing pictures both from the camera and from many other sources. I've been using it for 3-4 years now and it's a very useful tool. Sounds like a good starter camera.1.5 megapixel is low by todays standards but it should give you good enough pictures for everyday use.---Jack

What She Said.

Don Thompson - South of Miami

>Todd,

The floppy-diskette cameras are somewhat obsolete. They are slow (takes time to record on the diskette), and don't allow you to take many pictures without switching floppies. I have both types. My old Sony Mavica, at maximum resolution, will store about six photos on a floppy. My newer Nikon Cool Pix 2500 will store about 136 equivalent photos on its 128MB memory card. One would have to carry 100 floppies to get the same quantity!

That said, I am going to buy three of the floppy type for the office. It's an institutional/bureaucratic thing. They are more nearly idiot-proof, and some of our people have ancient computers, but they all can handle floppies.

Does your camera have a little cord to connect to your PC's USB port? Perhaps there is also a CDROM with some special software to transfer the photos? What operating system do you use?

We expect to see pictures of each and every rusty old tool you find!

Re: This camera any good?

Todd O. Cronkhite Native of Maine

>Alrighty than,

Pam,

You are right, IIRC she won the camera christmas of '99, but it could of been '98. If I had to put money on it I'd say '99 tho.

Don,

Sounds like that floppy disk camera is for me as like you say it is nearly idiot proof. ;~)

What is a USB Port, and where would it be? also what do you mean by "Operating System"? I have Windows '98,is that my operating system?

I do believe there was a little cord with it, but I'm not sure where it is now. I'm sure LOML knows tho.

Thanks for the info so far, you guys just might get me into the 21st Century yet.

Todd O.

Re: This camera any good?

paul womack

>By the standards of today's camera's it is crude and low resolution.

But it is MORE than good enough to take pictures good enough for use on a webpage/website/Ebay.

If those are your main uses for a camera - use it.

In any case "the price is right", and allows to to defer deciding on your "dream camera" should such a thing lie your future.

BugBear (currently VERY happy with his 2 M pixel Canon A60)

Re: This camera any good?

Don Thompson, Cutler Ridge, South of Miami FL

>Windows 98 is your operating system. The reason that I asked is that Windows XP seems to be a little more efficient at working with cameras.

USB stands for Universal Serial Bus. It is an industry standard for connecting devices to a PC. If your PC was made in the last half-dozen years, there should be a couple of little rectangular sockets on the back of it.

The cord is to connect the camera to the PC to transfer photo images to the PC.

Do you have the instruction sheet for the camera?

Re: This camera any good?

Todd O. Cronkhite Native of Maine

>Don,

I have a Gateway computer that we bought in '98. I looked at the back of the modem and yes I see two rectangular ports/sockets. Appears that I am missing one of the two cords that go with this carera, but I'm sure it's around here somewhere.

Instruction sheet/booklet. Whats that for? ;~)

I'm about to head out the door probably the rest of the day, so it'll be later on, if not tomorrow before I get back to this camera issue.

Todd O.

Re: This camera any good?

Todd O. Cronkhite Native of Maine

>Yeah Buggy, that's all I want it for. Actually just to be able to post pics here as I've never tried to sell anything on e-bay, tho once I get "digitial" anything is possible. If nothing else this camera will get me educated on the subject. I get the sensation that a whole new world is fixing to open up for me and it is exciting.

Todd O.

Instruction booklet

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>You may want to make an effort to obtain instructions, maybe from Fuji's internet site or an aftermarket booklet. These digital cameras are more computer and less camera in user interface, and much more cryptic in use than a computer program. In short, it's virtually impossible to know what the camera can do without a manual.

Pam

Re: Instruction booklet

Don Thompson - South of Miami

>Boy, do you have that right. The Nikon Cool Pix is my wife's camera, and I grabbed it to bring with me to an office Christmas party a few of weeks ago. I am pretty handy with electronics and computers, etc., but that little gadget got the better of me. I got some pictures taken, but not very easily or very well. Since then, I nagged Denise into digging up the instruction manual, and spent a morning reading it. I had much better results at the next party.

Bottom line: Find the manual, Todd! Then, RTFM, dude.

Re: This camera any good?

Todd O. Cronkhite Native of Maine

>Oops, littlew mis understaning there I see. I've always had the instruction manual, it's just that I haven't read it yet. Sometimes those instruction booklets can make the simpliest thing so complicated to understand that I fiqured before I even started trying to fiqure this camera out I'd see if it was worth my time.

Still gotta find one cord tho. The daughter had tis camera in her possesion so there is no telling if it'll turn up or not, but I think it will.

Todd O.

Re: good enough...

paul womack

>All the picture on this page of my website were taken with a borrowed Olympus C830-L

(each small picture is a thumbnail; click to see a bigger version; these are still cut down from the full size images the camera generated).

If these pictures are "good enough", your Fuji is also "Good enough"

BugBear