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Digital or Film??
I am going to Japan-Singapore-Malaysia-Thailand-Burma-Cambodia-Australia-New
Zealand. I don't know what type of camera I should bring, I'd like to pick up a digital in Japan, because I hear electronics are cheap there. I think digital would be nice bcs I could send pictures over the net so easily but how do I unload the pictures when I'm in some south-east Asian countries. I would hate to have to load software on a computer at every internet cafe I went to, and I dought they would even allow it. Does anyone have any recommendations on this issue? |
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Digital or Film??
I can only speak for Thailand, here you could have your digital card emptied
and burned on a CD. Practically everywhere.. Though I might be advisable to have a USB cardreader with you. - jorgen "Kevin" wrote in message ... I am going to Japan-Singapore-Malaysia-Thailand-Burma-Cambodia-Australia-New Zealand. I don't know what type of camera I should bring, I'd like to pick up a digital in Japan, because I hear electronics are cheap there. I think digital would be nice bcs I could send pictures over the net so easily but how do I unload the pictures when I'm in some south-east Asian countries. I would hate to have to load software on a computer at every internet cafe I went to, and I dought they would even allow it. Does anyone have any recommendations on this issue? |
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Digital or Film??
in article , Jorgen [2400] at
wrote on 5/23/04 7:57 AM: I can only speak for Thailand, here you could have your digital card emptied and burned on a CD. Practically everywhere.. Though I might be advisable to have a USB cardreader with you. - jorgen "Kevin" wrote in message ... I am going to Japan-Singapore-Malaysia-Thailand-Burma-Cambodia-Australia-New Zealand. I don't know what type of camera I should bring, I'd like to pick up a digital in Japan, because I hear electronics are cheap there. I think digital would be nice bcs I could send pictures over the net so easily but how do I unload the pictures when I'm in some south-east Asian countries. I would hate to have to load software on a computer at every internet cafe I went to, and I dought they would even allow it. Does anyone have any recommendations on this issue? More than one friend who has been to Japan has told me electronics can be more expensive there than Japanese brands abroad. No personal experience either way. If you take film, do NOT get it developed at the photo shop across the road from the Diamond Hotel on Monivong St. in Phnom Penh. They made an absolute hash of three dozen rolls of mine (and tried to change the quoted rate, too, but that's hardly surprising). Rude *******s. One other thing about digital: you will not have the same challenges in keeping your film cool! |
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Digital or Film??
Kevin,
Not destination specific, but a few words about digital... absolutely. It's cheap and the quality is for the most part... vacation quality... nuff to bore. The new 5 meg Sony W1 is great (just coming to market) but you'll find computer screen resolutions for the most part statisfactory which means 100's of shots on one memory card/stick and if your camera take standard batteries like the W1, there's no charging hassles until you get home and decide a charger is the cheaper way to go. The W1 will shoot video at 32 fps at 640x400 or therabouts if you have the faster memory stick, and like the other message mentioned before get the USB card reader so you can dump pix to CD on the fly mostly everwhere. I carried a cheap 2meg cam with AA batteries and memory crusier...and took 1000's of pix with a 64 meg card... but of course a 256 card would have taken it most of it. No regrets, but the better cameras allow lower lighting conditions, features, real video, bigger view screens, zoom etc. One caution: The cost of the pictures is cheap enough that there is the temptation to not compose the picture well and just take many images and delete the extras.... but many thoughless pixs are not worth one image well composed. "Kevin" wrote in message ... I am going to Japan-Singapore-Malaysia-Thailand-Burma-Cambodia-Australia-New Zealand. I don't know what type of camera I should bring, I'd like to pick up a digital in Japan, because I hear electronics are cheap there. I think digital would be nice bcs I could send pictures over the net so easily but how do I unload the pictures when I'm in some south-east Asian countries. I would hate to have to load software on a computer at every internet cafe I went to, and I dought they would even allow it. Does anyone have any recommendations on this issue? |
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