Glen Tortorella wrote: > While I have been resistant to digital for quite some time, I find > this article interesting. The idea of getting a good "budget" DSLR > has crossed my mind, but I know so little about working within the > DSLR format that I cannot get motivated to buy one. I tend to like > prints. Thus, I ask the supremely elementary question: how does one > turn the zeros and ones stored in the DSLR's memory into prints? > Would a computer and/or scanner be necessary (I do not have a > scanner, but I do have an iMac), or can a camera shop or photo lab > supply the means to do this if one does not have a scanner?
You're asking these questions as if you knew nothing at all, which I suspect isn't quite true. - No scanner is used when you're using a digital camera. Scanners are used to capture film and print images into digital images. A digital camera produces digital images. - You print a digital camera's photos the same way you print anything else: to a printer connected to either camera or computer, to an online print service having moved the image files from camera to computer, or by using a printer kiosk at a local store. - If you have an iMac, you connect the camera to the computer with its supplied cable. By default, iPhoto (supplied on every Apple system by default) will start up and download all the photographs so you can sort, show, and print them, to either a connected printer via a print service on the internet. > And, finally, how does the K100D compare to the Nikon...the D40 or > D50, I gather? A matter of opinion. They all work well at the level of questions you are posing. If you already have Pentax lenses, it makes sense to buy a Pentax DSLR: it will save you money. If you don't have Pentax lenses, pick whichever one feels best in your hands and enjoy it ... they all work better than the majority of owners can exploit. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
