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Re: Digital Cameras and Scanners



Our school recently purchased an Olympus C-700 at $555. It takes 2.1
megapixel still images and 15 to 60 seconds of movie. What I like best about
it is the 10x optical zoom, the ability to do as much or as little
automatically as I choose, and the great battery life (I am not kidding). I
have filled up the memory card several times, viewed pictures and movies on
the camera with the LCD panel, and it just keeps going and going (a single
set of charged LiMH AA batteries). It has all the features of a standard
SLR. I consider the worst feature the 8 Mb memory card, which is to small if
you need more than 8 pictures at a time (at super high quality). It will do
about 16 at high quality. These have looked pretty good to me.

Do not buy an HP C500. It can barely make it through the memory card (if I
use the LCD panel at all) on a set of batteries. When I first got it, I sent
it back thinking something was wrong with it. There was (it had been dented
in shipping), but the new one is just as bad on batteries. I bought a spare
set to make sure I always had enough to shoot up the memory card (which is a
nice 32 Mb). It does take great pictures, but I pretty much gave up using
the LCD panel because it just kills the batteries.



----- Original Message -----
From: "George Goth" <goth@SMCCD.NET>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 10:41 AM
Subject: Digital Cameras and Scanners


| Our physics department has received a small grant to fund the production
| of Internet accessible lab manuals. Parts of this grant are for the
| purchases of a digital camera and a scanner. I would like to ask the
| members of this list if there are any particular models that they would
| recommend for purchase (or, alternatively, to avoid). The camera would
| be used largely to photograph equipment; the scanner to scan graphs,
| circuit diagrams and so forth. Both would be interfaced with a Macintosh
| computer.
|