Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]John As much as I respect most of your replies to tyros, I think that a bunch of personally oriented platitudes is not what this gent needs. It is more than can be expressed in a few short replies on this List. There are many courses given locally, most free. on digital photography by; Junior Colleges, camera stores, adult education centers, und so weiter. One response, by an admitted expert, won't do it. Jerry Johnny Dead man wrote: > that is a big task. www.dpreview.com is probably your best resource. > > interfaces are generally standard serial, USB, or firewire with the > same advantages and disadvantages as any platform. USB2 and firewire > are fast. > > most people use CF2 compact flash memory cards (solid state) or > microdrives (tiny hard drives). I wouldn't buy a camera that didn't use > this. The variation is in capacity (stated in Mb), speed and robustness > to shock. Personally I think you need enough memory to hold 200-300 > shots and some way of dumping them into temporary storage. So multiply > your camera's image size by 300 and that tells you how much storage you > need (eg 1Ds raw files are about 10Mb, so 300x10=3000Mb. That's 3x1Gb > microdrives, which is what I have. This allows you to shoot a day > without offloading images. I also have a digital wallet (mini > standalone hard drive) that I can dump images onto without a laptop). > > steer clear of proprietary storage formats (eg sony memory stick). > > On Monday, March 17, 2003, at 05:53 PM, Oliver Bryk wrote: > > > Although a digital camera is definitely not in my foreseeable future I > > was > > intrigued by the variety of camera memory devices , capacities, > > interfaces > > and what-nots that were mentioned by our various correspondents on this > > thread. Could someone summarize the relevant aspects of these devices > > and > > perhaps some idea how camera designers select from among them? > > -- > John Brownlow > > http://www.pinkheadedbug.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html