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[pct-l] Lightweight Digital Camera



Just a few meaningless comments and thoughts on Digital Cameras.

1) 35 MM camera still offer better quality photos than digital. Assuming
that you're a reasonably good photographer.
2) The new 4 megapixel digital cameras do take good pictures. Combined with
a digital projector, it's often difficult to tell the difference from a 35
mm slide.
3) Good digital camera are an order of magnitude more complex to learn than
the old SLR cameras. Which are more complex than the point shoot camera such
as the popular Olympus Stylus series. So take plenty of time "BEFORE YOUR
HIKE" to get to know you're camera and all it's possible modes.
4) Battery technology has come along ways in the last few years. As has the
reduction in power requirement of Digital Cameras. You should get a couple
of town stops on a single charge of the new high capacitance re-chargeable
batteries. The new cameras only require a couple of AA's. So a charger in a
drift box is a viable option.
5) High capacity memory cards, 128 to 256 megabytes, can hold the equivalent
of 3 to 7 rolls of 36 exposure film each. All in a package no bigger than a
postage stamp. Roughly figure 1 megabyte per image when calculating the
number of cards to buy.
6) While the storage methods of storing digital images will change overtime,
the quality of the image will never diminish. Transferring images from one
format to another is relatively simple to do.


For the most part, I've gone over to the Dark Side of Digital. It hasn't
been a painless process. I bought a great digital camera before heading out
on the CDT and paid for it with miserable pictures. The penalty for not
really learning the camera before standing on an open ridge at 12,000 feet
with

endless views.

-Fallingwater