At 3:41 AM +0100 1/29/05, Listar wrote:
>From: "Brian Swale" <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 18:12:40 +1300
>Subject: [OM] (OM) Choice of digital camera
>
>
>Hi all,
>
>Another topic. No flames please, I'm just looking for guidance.
>
>I have an old friend who has also been a friend for more than 30 years.
>(We are both close to being classified as "old")
>
>He works for a US government department as a scientist, and does a lot of
>public presentations and teaching. Trees and forests are often involved.
>
>He has just been told in no uncertain terms that they will not allow him to
>use slides any more for his presentations and he must use Powerpoint+
>digital images.
After reading the other responses, my immediate reaction is that a
major issue has been missed: Does this old dog have the time and
interest and energy to learn a whole lot of new tricks? If he buys
into a new camera system, any new camera system, he has much to
un-learn and re-learn, and his photographs and efficiency will suffer
greatly for a few years. If he is close to retirement, this may not
make any sense.
On the other hand, if he puts all his money into a slide scanner, he
has far fewer new tricks to learn, and he always has the slides, so
he can easily recover from digital mistakes while he learns how to
scan slides and include images in powerpoint. Given the low demands
of powerpoint, any loss of quality due to scanning is of only
theoretical interest.
If he also *wants* to learn about digital cameras, he can do that in
parallel, with a gradual transition at a pace set by him and him
alone. Start with a cheap camera and use it to gain experience,
rather than trying to make a total transition all at once.
Joe Gwinn
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