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[catamount]

Originally Posted by flatfloor

Since when can puddy tats join?

I reckon when Alex's enormous housecat took up residence!

[Hamilton]

Dont mess with me, i use kung f00, claw of cat style RAWR!!

[Hamilton]

ruh roh raggy......
rockies doggle photo shoot

[Bill Vincent]

Jack, that's classic!! Looks like your buddy's havin a great time, too!!

Originally Posted by jgleason

I'd be happy to ship you some Mark! We seem to have an ample supply of the white stuff this year.

Joe-- Tell me about it!! WE have piles of snow so high right now here in town (Bridgton, Me.) they even had a report about it on the news-- seems 8' of snow is too high to see over to see if traffic's comin when you're pokin your nose out onto Rte. 302, and there've been a few accidents attributed to it. With the two storms last week, we had exactly 30" of snow last week-- 13" on tuesday, and another 17" on saturday. This is really starting to suck.

[RandyL]

I just bought a fujifilm E500 finepix camera. Anyone know if its a good camera? Its seems good. Came witha docking station, rechargable batteries, an extra 64mb card. Is working well so far. THink I'll take a pic of the big ford later tonight if I get home when its still light out.

[shutterbug]

Hee hee hee, Jack, that's quite a character ya got there! My doggies wouldn't sit that still even do that for a even for a Scooby Snack!!!

Randy, it all depends on what you want a camera for... here's a pretty informative review on your camera. As the owner it might be informative, but I didn't read it all (it's long). Can't go too wrong with 4 megapixels... it's all the other bells and whistles that up the price. I'll bet it takes quality 4x6 and 5x7's and is certainly fit for uploading to the web. Never used a docking station so I don't know nuthin about it.

[jgleason]

Not a bad camera. I skimmed the review and looked carefully at the test shots. The optical zoom is a little low for my tastes (3.2x). If I can't have a digital SLR then I want something with a big zoom, like a 12x.

Of course, it all depends on what kind of pictures you plan on taking and all that.

No opinion on the docking station, I use a card reader. Pop the card out of the camera and into the reader, drag and drop the files from the card to the computer's hard drive. Nothing to it!

[shutterbug]

I get people ask me about the docking stations. Someone want to testify to liking them or disliking them? Are all docking stations also print stations? You've seen em the kind that print a 4x6 right from the docking station? I was never interested in them but wonder if people like that feature or not.

12x zoom is pretty hefty I assume you're talking all optical too! You ever use the digital zoom? I've taken a couple in full 8x optical plus the 4x digi-zoom that turned out half way decent after manipulation in the digi-darkroom but usually they're too grainy and blurry to use.

[jgleason]

12x, all optical!

My Current Digital Camera . (Of course, I opted for black, not silver)

I have used the digital zoom too. Here's a series of shots. I was appr. 15' away. 1st image is at 3x optical, second at 12x optical, 3rd at 36x digital. Handheld, no retouching. Only thing I did was resize all images to 30% of the original size to fit on the forum. No cropping. I also saved as jpg at 40% compression.

[Marge]

Had to add a couple...not pro quality but from our backyard. And yes, those colors are real. Guess God had to give us something to look at so we wouldn't notice the scorpions and snakkes wandering around our feet.

Marge

[shutterbug]

Sweet Joe. Great clarity even at full digital zoom and still shoot with a small aperature while zoomed! Mine doesn't have the anti-shake on it; wish I'd known how sensitive it really was before buying it. If I were to get another camera I would definitely get that feature. Cool, comes with a lens hood too which comes in handy. Beats the piece of roofing paper I keep curled up in my case .

Ok, here's my test. I have to say I'm kinda of surprised that they are as clear as they are being taken with no tripod . I did however use the flash which I normally don't do so it upped the speed from 1/6.6 of the no flash pic to 1/60 at no zoom and both max optical and digital at 1/125. To gauge the difference between them I had to switch to high resolution instead of max or best which is shot in RAW because I can't enable digital zoom with RAW capture, but they are pretty close for on screen comparison I think. The pictures were taken at a distance of about 10'. In JPG high format I resized to 23% of regular size and squished each by only 10%. Didn't crop them nor sharpen them (though they really need that). Original size is 2560x1920.

Here's no flash & no zoom, flash & no zoom, max optical zoom w/ flash, and max digital zoom w/ flash.

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I see Marge has put some pics up since I've been writing this novel! Ooooh, I love reflections! Hubby and are have a golf trip planned for out your way, Marge. Heading to Mesquite Nevada in late September. Ever heard of it? It's probably not even that close to you. That is going to be such eye-candy with all those textures of the red rocks!

[Marge]

Marni,

Mesquite may not be NYC but we know it well. You will enjoy your golf and your vistas! Bring lots of 128K memory cards.

And 7 irons are good snake repellants.....

Marge

[shutterbug]

I'll use the 6 iron, never did like that club!

[Hobbit]

Nice camera Joe...

I recently purchased my first digital. Like you I was really swayed by the Leica glass. 12X optical is really at the edge of technology for a non SLR. The 35 mm equivalent is something like 35-450 mm, and F-2.8 all the way, end to end. And Image Stabilization as well.

I somehow managed to convince my darling wife that I needed the FZ-20, so I ended up with 5 mega pixel version in Black. All I can say, is that Leica lens is .....well, I don't know how to describe it! Nothing I have seen (digital) is even close to it. I am certain there are some other fine lenses out there, but nothing yet with optical range and features of this one.

I looked at many different models, but like my Nikon film cameras, it always came down to the lens.

If you can't afford a digital SLR---you really need to look at these models.

[Hamilton]

just in case you were wondering if those were my sunglasses on rocky
no..no..
they are the real mcoy