Digital Camera-yet again!!
Posted by: Don Atkinson on 18 January 2004
Digital Camera-yet again!!
Mrs Don would like to replace her aging 35mm "snappy" Ixos with a "modern" ie digital camera.
Most of the time it will snap family and friends around the dinner table, at weddings, in the garden, on holiday - sometimes with magnificant scenery in the background. Print-out will normally be 7x5 from one of the high street chains. But she is incredibly critical of skin tone, detail and accurate colour rendition.
Every now and then, one of her pictures will be "super" and expected to be blown up to A4 size. Anything less than perfection at this size and the camera will be on its way back to Jessops (or whichever poor retailer was unfortunate enough to have recommended it and sold it). I will be expected to produce whatever she wants, from time to time, on my Epson Stylus 950 or 800.......
At present she is hovering between a Canon Powershot A80 and a Nikon Coolpix 4300, both hovering around the £300 mark and neither being "too big" for the old hand-bag!!!!!!
I noticed that the Nikon produces TIFF files as well as JPEG. I am not sure about the Canon. Is it helpful to have TIFF files, bearing in mind that that everytime you massage JPEG you lose some quality (I believe).
Your advice and recommendations gratefully received
Cheers
Don
Mrs Don would like to replace her aging 35mm "snappy" Ixos with a "modern" ie digital camera.
Most of the time it will snap family and friends around the dinner table, at weddings, in the garden, on holiday - sometimes with magnificant scenery in the background. Print-out will normally be 7x5 from one of the high street chains. But she is incredibly critical of skin tone, detail and accurate colour rendition.
Every now and then, one of her pictures will be "super" and expected to be blown up to A4 size. Anything less than perfection at this size and the camera will be on its way back to Jessops (or whichever poor retailer was unfortunate enough to have recommended it and sold it). I will be expected to produce whatever she wants, from time to time, on my Epson Stylus 950 or 800.......
At present she is hovering between a Canon Powershot A80 and a Nikon Coolpix 4300, both hovering around the £300 mark and neither being "too big" for the old hand-bag!!!!!!
I noticed that the Nikon produces TIFF files as well as JPEG. I am not sure about the Canon. Is it helpful to have TIFF files, bearing in mind that that everytime you massage JPEG you lose some quality (I believe).
Your advice and recommendations gratefully received
Cheers
Don