Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!priapus.visi.com!orange.octanews.net!news.octanews.net!green.octanews.net!news-out.octanews.net!news.glorb.com!lon-transit.news.telstra.net!lon-spool.news.telstra.net!ken-transit.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail Reply-To: "Pete D" From: "Pete D" Newsgroups: fj.comp.dev.digital-camera References: <4012eaac.428776@news.freeserve.com> Subject: Re: digital cameras Lines: 33 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 06:24:08 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.138.240.33 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1076394248 144.138.240.33 (Tue, 10 Feb 2004 17:24:08 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 17:24:08 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.comp.dev.digital-camera:1319 Neil, Are you sure you really want that much weight to lug around, it is nealy as bad as a Nikon F1D, the camera is good but I was always disappointed with the auto mode, manual it was very good. Perhaps you should wait for the F70D or get an *ist D Pentax (I have a soft spot for the Pentax). Perhaps even a Canon 300D or 10D will do what you want??? Cheers. Pete D "Neil Cairns" wrote in message news:4012eaac.428776@news.freeserve.com... : On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 23:23:25 -0600, "Tjace" wrote: : : >hi, : >i am wanting to purchase a new digital camera that will let me take night : >shots, landscape shots, nature shots, and portraits. but i don't know what : >camera to get. can someone please help this beginner with her passion. : > : It depends what size prints you want to print at, I have an Olympus : 730 Ultra Zoom 3.2 megapxels and I can print A4 and can't tell the : difference with print or a photo taken on film but at A3 it becomes : grainy and pixelated. : I'm saving to buy a Fuji FinePix S2pro with a Nikon 14mm x 30mm : so that i can print BIG mainly landscapes. : Neil