On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 03:30:41PM -0800, Mike McClain wrote:
> I'm in the market for an inexpensive digital camera.
I want to thank everyone for their input.
After looking at the stats of each camera suggested and comparing them
side by side at http://www.dpreview.com/ I settled on the Canon A59
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 09:34:16AM -0800, Mike McClain wrote:
> AA batteries are cheap, readily available and I can get NiCad and NiMH.
> Custom rechargable battery packs are like printer ink cartridges.
They report being empty when there is still a week or two of use left?
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> AA batteries are cheap, readily available and I can get NiCad and NiMH.
> Custom rechargable battery packs are like printer ink cartridges.
I agree to some extent. But AA batteries do not come on Li-ion versions,
and there's a good reason why all cameras (and laptop) batteries use
Li-ion: it h
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:14:55 -0500, mitch wrote:
>
> I work at a nationwide chain of Camera/Imaging stores.
>
> AA batteries are used in Nikon, Canon and Fuji's and Panasonic. Best to
> go with rechargeable batteries.
Also some Pentax cameras - you just have to check, if specific camera uses
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:02:10PM -0500, Allan Wind wrote:
> On 2009-02-19T16:05:55, Richard Lyons wrote:
> > The rechargeeables, both NiCad and NiMH, are a good idea in principle, but
> > lose charge when not in use and become ineffective surprisingly quickly in
> > my experience.
>
> Try the lo
On Thursday 19 February 2009, Richard Lyons wrote:
> I used to think standard batteries were a better idea too, but they don't
> perform anywhere near as well as the L-ion flat ones most cameras now use.
This is slightly misleading. Yes, lb for lb, LI batts perform better, but
often if a camera u
On 2009-02-19T16:05:55, Richard Lyons wrote:
> The rechargeeables, both NiCad and NiMH, are a good idea in principle, but
> lose charge when not in use and become ineffective surprisingly quickly in
> my experience.
Try the low discharge NiMH batteries like Sanyo Eneloop.
/Allan
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:55:12AM -0500, Barclay, Daniel wrote:
> Mike McClain wrote:
>
> >
> > AA batteries are cheap, readily available and I can get NiCad and NiMH.
> > Custom rechargable battery packs are like printer ink cartridges.
>
> I wonder whether any camera use AAA batteries. Tha
Mike McClain wrote:
>
> AA batteries are cheap, readily available and I can get NiCad and NiMH.
> Custom rechargable battery packs are like printer ink cartridges.
I wonder whether any camera use AAA batteries. That would let the camera be
smaller and you'd still be able to install non-recharg
kj wrote:
> ... I can imagine there's some benefit to designing a battery
> that delivers the cameras exact energy requirements rather than trying
> to make the most of the fixed output of AAs. Given how small compact
> digital cameras have become, AA batteries really just add unnecessary bul
kj wrote:
...The T100's battery is tiny compared to two AAs, and gave me roughly
double number of pictures that I got out of two 2700mAh NiCads.
Correction: they're 2700mAh NiMh batteries.
Amazon linky:
*http://tinyurl.com/dny49q
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Mike McClain wrote:
A batteries are cheap, readily available and I can get NiCad and NiMH.
Custom rechargable battery packs are like printer ink cartridges.
Mike
Except they last a lot longer - in both ways. I am not an electronic
engineer, but I can imagine there's some benefit to designi
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Mike McClain wrote:
> I'm in the market for an inexpensive digital camera. Just for
> snapshots and was wondering if anyone had recommendations or
> knows where I could find which are going to work with Debian.
> Just something simple with USB, AA batteries and tha
On 02/18/2009 11:34 AM, Mike McClain wrote:
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 04:40:04PM +, kj wrote:
Mike McClain wrote:
I'm in the market for an inexpensive digital camera.
Out of curiosity, why AA? Losing the AA will give you a much more
compact camera. Very few cameras accept AA batteries t
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 04:40:04PM +, kj wrote:
>> Mike McClain wrote:
>>> I'm in the market for an inexpensive digital camera.
>>> Just for snapshots and was wondering if anyone had recommendations
>>> or knows where I could find which are going to work with Debi
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 04:40:04PM +, kj wrote:
> Mike McClain wrote:
>> I'm in the market for an inexpensive digital camera.
>> Just for snapshots and was wondering if anyone had recommendations
>> or knows where I could find which are going to work with Debian.
>> Just something simple with U
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 04:40:04PM +, kj wrote:
> Mike McClain wrote:
> >I'm in the market for an inexpensive digital camera.
>
> Out of curiosity, why AA? Losing the AA will give you a much more
> compact camera. Very few cameras accept AA batteries these days
> anyway.Either ways,
Mike McClain wrote:
I'm in the market for an inexpensive digital camera.
Just for snapshots and was wondering if anyone had recommendations
or knows where I could find which are going to work with Debian.
Just something simple with USB, AA batteries and that uses a generic
mem card.
Thanks,
Mike
On Sat February 14 2009, Mike McClain wrote:
> I'm in the market for an inexpensive digital camera.
> Just for snapshots and was wondering if anyone had recommendations
> or knows where I could find which are going to work with Debian.
> Just something simple with USB, AA batteries and that uses a
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 08:18:32PM -0500, H.S. wrote:
> Allan Wind wrote:
>
> > Most cameras support mass storage device class these days.
> >
> >> AA batteries
>
> How about Canon Powershot A620 or a more recent model in these series?
we just bought a power shot g10 love it and it works well w
Allan Wind wrote:
> Most cameras support mass storage device class these days.
>
>> AA batteries
How about Canon Powershot A620 or a more recent model in these series?
> That is probably what limits your choices the most.
>
>> and that uses a generic
>> mem card.
>
> You may want to make tha
On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 15:30 -0800, Mike McClain wrote:
> I'm in the market for an inexpensive digital camera.
> Just for snapshots and was wondering if anyone had recommendations
> or knows where I could find which are going to work with Debian.
> Just something simple with USB, AA batteries and th
On 2009-02-14T15:30:41, Mike McClain wrote:
> I'm in the market for an inexpensive digital camera.
> Just for snapshots and was wondering if anyone had recommendations
> or knows where I could find which are going to work with Debian.
> Just something simple with USB,
Most cameras support mass sto
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