Good commentary, Godfrey. Have you read Rebekah's remarks? I tend to think that this is just another financial black hole. On the surface, I think: great! I can just get a good deal on a DSLR, buy a rreasonably-priced printer, hook it up to my IMac, and make as many prints as I wish, but then there are those "hidden" costs...ink, paper, software, and who knows what else...
Perhaps this is why I have tried to remain ignorant of the DSLR world. Thanks, Glen On Sep 25, 2007, at 9:16 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > 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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
