This week I came to a reckoning while using my new Canon Elan 7 non-digital SLR. Shooting film is expensive and time consuming. I even went so far as to delete a previous, long-winded post I created about why you should shoot film instead of digital.<\/p>\n
Once you go digital it’s hard to go back. So what I’ve got to figure out is how to get the same quality out of a “low cost” digital camera. I can just forget about the frames-per-second that an SLR can achieve. It’s not that important anyway. A hot shoe and a snyc terminal are a must for an off-camera flash and the maximum aperture has got to be at least 2.0 for those times when I don’t want to use a flash at all. It also has to be at least 5 megapixels.<\/p>\n
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And so the top contenders are: The Sony DSC-V3 (7.2 megapixel) and the The Olympus C-5050 (5 megapixel). The Sony is nice but really expensive. It requires a Sony memory stick or a Compact flash card – neither of which I own. I also don’t own a Compact flash card reader.<\/p>\n
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The Olympus is less expensive and can only be bought used. But it will accept xD, Smartmedia and Compact flash cards. I already own xD and Smartmedia cards plus the reader connected to my PC. So it seems like a no brainer. The editors of Digital Camera magazine have set the C-5050 as the comparison standard in high-end point and shoots for the past 2 years which gives me even more confidence that this is the camera I need to get – after I sell the Canon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This week I came to a reckoning while using my new Canon Elan 7 non-digital SLR. Shooting film is expensive and time consuming. I even went so far as to delete a previous, long-winded post I created about why you should shoot film instead of digital. Once you go digital it’s hard to go back. … Continue reading I was wrong.<\/span>