RE: Nikon Coolpix 990 - WAS Homtech...

["Phillip Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

I have several 64Mb smartmedia cards for my Olympus 3030 and 64 meg CF
cards
in my ePods ... I'd not consider anything less than that for a decent
resolution camera nowadays.

I'd love an Olympus E10 for the times when you want something a bit better
than a snap - plus the E10 has the facility for a further 2.5x optical zoom
giving a 10x optical zoom. Add to that that a 1Gb Microdrive can be had for
about £399 if you shop around and suddenly uncompressed or minimally
compressed picture storage is a viable option.

The IXUS struck me as being rugged enough to survive the treks everywhere
that I sometimes worry about with my 3030 ... I lob my bag into my car each
night and only then remember that there's both my camera and my laptop in
there. The metal body seems hefty enough to count as an offensive weapon
although the 2x optical zoom would be a drag. The battery life of all
digital cameras pretty much sucks nowadays but at least the IXUS comes as
standard with a charger and a rechargeable battery. I am told it's a
universal voltage charger that comes with the IXUS as I was checking them
out for a relative the other week and I specifically asked that as he
travels quite a lot.

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Watt [mailto:kennethwatt@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 22 March 2001 02:24
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Nikon Coolpix 990 - WAS Homtech...
>
>
>
> I've got a digital IXUS, great little camera I now use this as my main
> camera although I am not very impressed with the battery life (it
> is a small
> battery in fairness) but I cannot seem to find out if the charger is
> "worldwide " voltage converting for use abroad and I cannot
find a car
> charger for it.
>
> The initial 8 meg CF card is also not that great as you only get about
12
> pics at normal resolution and 4 at mega pixel.
>
> That's about all the criticism I can level at the cutest, coolest
little
> digital camera available!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 21 March 2001 06:53
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Nikon Coolpix 990 - WAS Homtech...
>
> I'm trying to get my missus to agree to me selling my Olympus 3030
(which
> travels *EVERYWHERE* with me in my bag with my - now batteryless -
laptop)
> and getting an Olympus E10 for the times that I want a
"good" camera and a
> Canon Digital IXUS to lob in my bag to carry aroud with me.
>
> Maybe I'm wierd but I find them immensely usefull - a visual
dictaphone if
> you will.
>
> I used it a lot when we were looking for furniture and appliances for
the
> house ... saves endless arguments about what shape legs something had
or
> what the handles were like. I've used it to take photos of an accident
and
> sent the pics on CDR to both parties and even have some of a lorry
fire on
> my way in to work one morning which turned out as I got closer to be
quite
> gruesome as it was carrying pigs!
>
> Phil
> <SNIP>
> Yikes, gross! :)
> K
>
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