Mobile phones vs digital cameras

[Bereta_Eder]

Thanks so much for the reviews! I'm going to read them right now!

I'm going to travel after mid August but not outside Greece I'll take my little car and head down to the Peloponese for a couple of weeks

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Bereta_Eder
Anyway only 12 pictures at 4mp sounds patheic

it's just the embedded memory

you should get a 512MB card.

http://www.multirama.gr/Multirama/category.aspx?a_id=111&cc_id=DigitalAccMemoryCard

SD are cheaper than xD


my 2mp nikon creates 1mb files at full resolution (1600x1200)
not sure what kind of files a 4mp would create, but supposing it would be twice a 2mp, you could store 200 photos in a 512mb card

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Bereta_Eder
I'm going to travel after mid August but not outside Greece

i got it on a thessaloniki-athens trip

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
a digital camera is essentially the same as a traditional one, except the film is replaced by CCD.

Not really. Digital photos tend to be a lot harsher than analog, while high quality analog can be zoomed a lot more than digital can.

[Bereta_Eder]

The Nikon. Definitely Thanks again for helping me choose!
BTW thew Olympus doesn't appear to have a viewfinder!! I guess you just view the LCD screen. That's too advanced for me

[Bereta_Eder]

Darn the Olympus is cute too. But probably the Nikon.

[Dis]

Re: Mobile phones vs digital cameras

Originally posted by Bereta_Eder
Is there any use in buying a digital camera? I recently saw an ad about some mobile phone with 2 megapixels analysis. Pretty soon it'll be much more than this in mobile phones. So what would be the use of someoen buying a digital camera? What do you think? Someone who's not professionally into photography that is.

I don't use cell phones (except my work phone), so why should I waste money buying a phone I will never use just to get a camera?

[Bereta_Eder]

That's alright Dis ( )

Couple more questions if anyone feels like answering them

There's also the Sony Cybershot

http://www.steves-digicams.com/2005_reviews/sony_s40.html

I noticed some things. Digital cameras can take video. Some can take it with sound, others not.
The Nikon can't take video with sound.
The Sony can and it's even cheaper.

However, there's this thing called "makro" from what I've seen. It measures how close a camera can focus if I'm not mistaken.

The Nikon has a makro of 4 cm which is great I think.

The Sony however has a makro of 12 cm. Is that a problem? For example could I photograph a printed page with the Sony?

Also I noticed another difference.

The Nikon stores the video in quictime mov format.
The Sony in MPEG format.

I think the MPEG is the one compatible with most DVD players?

Thanks again

[Timexwatch]

I'd check into Canons. I have an older Canon Powershot, and it does 640x480 AVIs w/Sound and it's a quality camera. Just my 2 cents.

[Bereta_Eder]

Timexwatch I checked some Canon PowerShots after I read your post. They don't have the Sony makro limitation, which is cool. They can focus to 5 cm which is great. However, concerning the video it says that it has video with sound for 3 minutes. Does that mean that the 3 minutes is the maximum allowed period to shoot a video?

[Timexwatch]

It depends. The length of one clip depends on the resolution. If I do 640x480, it does a 30 second clip. Lower resolution clips can go on longer.

BUT

How much video you can take depends on the size of your memory card. The worst that happens for me is that I wait 2 seconds and hit the video button again. I'd like it to take longer clips at higher resolution, but I guess it's probably a limitation of the hardware on the camera.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Not really. Digital photos tend to be a lot harsher than analog, while high quality analog can be zoomed a lot more than digital can.

That's the difference between film and CCD. More precisely it has something to do with colour depth AFAIK.

[Tingkai]

A couple of important things to consider when buying a digital camera:

Shutter lag-time meaning the time between when you push the shutter release and when the camera takes the picture. Some digital cameras have annoying long lag times.

Focus time: how quickly can the camera re-focus on a new subject. This is important when taking pics of moving things.

Macro: don't worry about it. If you want to take a pic of something small, then you set the resolution to high. Then you can zoom to the object after downloading the pic.

I've got the Canon ixus 400. Excellent camera.

[Daz]

Ok, here's my input...

Megapixels are not everything. You can have 4 megapixel and a crappy objective (like the ones used in mobile phones) and get a lousy picture.
If you plan on developing plain 9x13 or 10x15 cm pictures, 2 megapix is enough, if you have a decent objective- and again- the mobile phone ones dont.
I would always go for a digital camera, rather than a mobile phone camera.

Movies. I have a Canon I1 IS and it shoots 640x400 30fps with no time limit (except the size of the memory card of course...

[MarkG]

yeah, you could look at a camera with sound recording abilities as well, plus no time limit and you would also have a half-decent videocamera