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Spitfire · Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2000 12:47 am

Im not sure if this is the right place to ask, but im looking for a good digital camera in the $1000,1500 pricerange and wonder if anyone can reccomend anything?

The camera should be capable of making/storing, at least, 300dpi images, preferrably with no compression (i hate camera's that immediately save as jpg!). An USB connection would also be nice...

c'mon, share your insight with me

/Spitfire

A.Buttle · member Member # Joined: 20 Mar 2000 Posts: 1724

I'd suggest the Nikon Coolpix 990 or the Fujifilm Finepix 4700. The Nikon is a 3.34 megapixel camera for about $1000 US. I've used the 950 and it kicked ass. It took some really nice pictures. And, I'm sure if I had played with the settings more, I could have gotten even better results.

The Fujifilm camera is a 4.3 megapixel camera because of some new CCD manufacturing process their using. I can't vouch for the image quality of this camera, although I suspect that it is probably pretty good. It retails for about the same price as the Nikon. If you want to go really overboard, Fujifilm sells a professional version of this camera called the Finepix S1 Pro. It's a 6.1 megapixel camera, but retails at about $4000 US.

As for USB, I'm sure that the Nikon is USB and I'm almost sure that the Fujifilm camera is also. It seems ridiculous that they'd make one that wasn't these days. Check out these links for more info.

http://www.nikon.com/

http://www.fujifilm.com/

Also, if you can, check out the issue of Popular Science that came out about a month or two ago. It has a really good article about exactly this.

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Spitfire · Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2000 11:46 pm

Buttle, thanks for the reply

I heard about the Coolpix one, but it wasn't good

Checkin' the fujifilm site as we speak...

/Spitfire

Jess · Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2000 8:24 am

1000's? God... I'm still saving up for the Sony Digital Camera that takes 3 1/2" floppy disks for $600. I will never get that camera

Spitfire · Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2000 12:01 am

Jess : if oyu want quality, you have to be willing to pay for it as well

My main problem is that i want to be able to use my snapshots for print primarily. That way you allways end up with a $1500+ camera simply because the simpler ones dont support printable resolutions.

/Spitfire

seas · Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2000 8:34 am

i remember something about cameras with support for pc-card harddrives, and can save uncompressed tiff-files, but those are way more then 1000$ cost, try finding one on ebay or something...and yeah there are other which save uncompressed images, but then you can only like store 3-4 of them, or...you could be a 128mb flashmemory, but they cost way much so...

seas · Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2000 8:39 am

300 dpi full page a4 = 2480 X 3500, thats 24,9 mb image, meaning 25 megapixel camera, thats _nowhere_ near your pricerange...sorry...

Spitfire · Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2000 10:32 am

Seas : i am quite familliar with the details of prepress imaging. I am, ofcourse, not looking for a 25mpixel camera. What would one do with an a4-sized picture?

(And what kind of 'puter would you need to handle it...).

/Spitfire

DuKEZ · Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2000 5:28 pm

im looking at the kodack dc280 model. looks nice. i dont know the specs on the top of my head.. but they too seem nice.. think they go for about 600 bucks