Re: [Sheflug] Linux Demo Days - SLR vs Digital :-)

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

 Mmmm.

 Quite surprised so many of you have so many interesting cameras.

 Although I've got cameras from 35mm to 4x5, a digital would be nice -
for just the reason that José gives - not to mention you don't have to
worry too much about colour casts, filtering and wasting money of
processing 5 rolls of gammy shots from the last night out - quick use of
the GIMP sorts all that.

 A friend of mine is a photojournalist in Singapore, and he's had a
chance to use a Nikon D1 - shame it's several grand (and there are still
problems with it) :-(
 Still - don't get many digital cameras that will rival a 4x5" Speed
Graphic - 60 year old technology!

 But, then again, most of us are using Linux - based on UNIX -
approaching 40(ish) year old technology. Just don't make them like they
used to :-)

Baz.

José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 08:59:59PM -0000, Paul Sims wrote:
> > I get much the same effect by strapping a tea strainer in front of my
> > Olympus OM10's 28mm/f2 lens!
> 
>         The main advantage of digital cameras is that they allow you to
> take loads of pictures of you and friends in an inebriated state,
> visualize them inmediately, laugh, and then be sure that you can delete
> them by pressing a button... When the masses acknowledge this major
> technological development, the world will be a different place.
> 
>         José
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