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JoelJ
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Posted: 24th Oct 2005 00:35 Edited at: 24th Oct 2005 00:36
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(life size image)
just got it yesterday it's wonderful.

specs from the site:
Quote: " 5.1 Effective Megapixels for stunning prints up to 16 x 20 inches

High Quality 3x Optical Zoom-Nikkor 35-105mm (35mm equivalent) lens for incredibly sharp, clear images plus a 4x digital zoom for a total zoom of 12x

Large, Bright 1.8 inch LCD for easy viewing and playback of pictures

Exclusive Nikon In-Camera Red-Eye Fix(TM) automatically fixes most typical situations; you may never see red-eyes again and D-Lighting automatically lightens overly dark images in playback

16 Scene Modes (Portrait, Panorama Assist, Landscape, Underwater, etc), 4 with Scene Assist to guide you in taking better pictures, automatically

Long Battery Life allows you to shoot hundreds of images with two AA batteries

Adjustable GUI (Graphic User Interface) with Help Button: allows you to choose between the traditional menu item view or the new icon view. Press the help (?) button and it will instantly display an explanation for all main menu functions on the LCD"


The quality of these pictures are absolutly amazing.

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Posted: 24th Oct 2005 00:38
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Nice


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lemme guess, we all have to be jelous and worship and kiss the ground you walk on.....we don't?....then I'd better stop it right now...


Interesting camera, not of particular interest to me, more of my mum's, sister's and uncle's area of media

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My girlfriend and I have the model down from that (the 4Mgpx one) and they are excelent little camera's. Stunning photos considering the price!

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Nikon are a good camera. I had a 35mm Nikon some time ago. Did a bit of wedding photography with it. It had a double exposure facility for special effects, but I sold it to get a motorbike. I have a Minolta 7000i now. When I bought the 7000i, the guy in the shop accidentally charged me for a Minolta 7000 (Without the 'i') which was £100 cheaper!!! Lucky me.

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Quote: "Stunning photos considering the price!"

very very stunning. Now I know why so many phototographers are going out of buisness, for just a couple hundred dollars for a TINY camera and just a few more for a few classes, you can do anything they can do, for FREE!

it's cool
Quote: " lemme guess, we all have to be jelous and worship and kiss the ground you walk on"

that's exactly what I was aiming for actually.

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Posted: 24th Oct 2005 08:42
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Quote: "(life size image)"


Life size at which resolution? Because at 320x240, that looks quite clunky and large.


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Posted: 24th Oct 2005 09:30
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LMAO! Didn't notice that!

Its NOT life size, if you print it at 6000dpi

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ive got an old mx1200 ( fuji) and until i find a camera that takes better quality pics than that does or it dies then ill stick with mine,i looked at the prices of digital cameras out now and the prices are ridiculously high,i dont see the point,mine cost £250 a few years ago and i only bought it coz it was either that or a new monitor,since i had one already i got a camera.
ive also found that its more the software you use and not just the camera. looks good though.
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On my 1920x1200 laptop it almost looks as small as my camera.

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Posted: 24th Oct 2005 11:07 Edited at: 24th Oct 2005 11:08
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1920x1200 laptop?, how do you read the screen?, clip on magnifying glass? my 1240x1024 monitor has small enough icons/text at 17", I should think 1920x1200 on a lappy (15"?) screen is almost invisible



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Posted: 24th Oct 2005 12:14 Edited at: 24th Oct 2005 12:24
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Quote: "1920x1200 laptop?, how do you read the screen?, clip on magnifying glass? my 1240x1024 monitor has small enough icons/text at 17", I should think 1920x1200 on a lappy (15"?) screen is almost invisible"


Because it's a 17" widescreen It's huge and lovely if you don't intend to carry it around. My monitor only has 15" viewable space, but I'm loving 1280*1024.

On a side note, Coolpix is a pretty n00bish name ^_^

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1024x768 is fine for me..then again I can't go upto 1280x1024 let alone higher!

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Very nice, I picked up a Fujifilm Finepix E510 back in July with my B-Day money, wonderful camera for macro shots. How about posting a picture for us to see? Flowers seem to show the best colour examples...

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Just got a new camera too - a 6MP canon. Very nice. The amount of megapixels you can get these days is astounding...

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I've got a friend calle Katie, who's really nice but is a bit...slow... Anyway, she got a digital camera for her birthday and started to show it to me and a few other friends. She proudly proclaimed that it had 6 pixels!

She never got why I was laughing...

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wow 5.1mp... and i still have a 3.2mp camera.. it costed me 500$

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Looks good, hope you enjoy it! I git my first digital camera 3 years ago, and have taken around 3,500 photos so far

I spent many years with SLRs, so I'm looking forward to the day when digital SLRs are affordable. Realistically, you'd probably want around 8 Megapixels for an SLR to make it a worthwhile investment. No point in having a good bit of hardware, when you can only print 6x8s!!!

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Posted: 24th Oct 2005 15:20
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"only print"
dude 6x8 is alot man.

i bet with that res you can take a photo of your face and zoom in to the detail of cells being visible.

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Posted: 24th Oct 2005 16:08 Edited at: 24th Oct 2005 16:44
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Quote: "Realistically, you'd probably want around 8 Megapixels for an SLR to make it a worthwhile investment"


you can get 8.5 megapixel slr cameras already, Nikon are releasing a 15mpixel camera shortly, that enough for you? ,8.5 mpixels on a full face image would be about 1/16th mm squared of face per pixel (assuming a square image), say 20 pixels per mm (400 pixels per sq mm) if you zoom in a bit, thats if you print it at life size, plenty of detail, more than enough for a photo sized image, it`s more down to how good the printer is, I swear by Epson, they seem to have the best quality (high end Epsons that is).



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Quote: "15mpixel"

holy moley?! and Nikon?! that is even better. nikon is like the camera guru!!

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Posted: 24th Oct 2005 17:49
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Quote: "Life size at which resolution? Because at 320x240, that looks quite clunky and large. "

hahaha, silly me, I was in a hurry when I typed this so I didn't bother to ever think that
my res is 1280x1024 at home, and it looks about the same on this computer here...not quite sure what res because it disabled all the crap (school compy) but it's slightly less than my home


Quote: "dude 6x8 is alot man."

unless...it's not enough? 6x8 is enough for every day pictures, but for Wedding pictures or posters or something like that, it's really not, you want the BEST quality photos you can get for a decent price for photos over 6x8

Quote: "you can get 8.5 megapixel slr cameras already,"

he never said you can't
Quote: " for an SLR to make it a worthwhile investment."


anyway, I was taking a picture of my beasty dog yesterday, and started editing the photo and stuff (nothing fancy, just cropping and crap ) and whilst zoomed in, you can see the everything in such detail, it's amazing, you can pick out individual hairs I lub meh camera!

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Quote: "I spent many years with SLRs, so I'm looking forward to the day when digital SLRs are affordable. Realistically, you'd probably want around 8 Megapixels for an SLR to make it a worthwhile investment"


if he was buying any kind of SLR worth the name then an 8 mpixel SLR is about the same money, $810 for a Cannon 350D, $1124 for the Cannon EOS-20D body, $700 for the Olympus EVOLTe-300, all about the price we used to pay for decent SLR cameras, plus you can buy custom digital backs for conventional SLR cameras, so by that light they are affordable.

I just thought maybe he didn`t realise how the prices have dropped for high end stuff, for example I had an early Fujii digital camera, it had less resolution than my current webcam (fujii 640x480, webcam 1.5 mpixel), it cost me £700 and coupled to the PC with a serial cable, not usb, SERIAL, saved images on 16mb smartmedia cards and ate batteries like they where going out of fashion (30mins when powered up tops), nowdays I can buy a camera with the same resolution for £15 in the discount shop, prices have dropped like crazy in the last two decades.

I currently "only" have a 2.0 mpixel camera (oldish model Finepix), when I get back into work I might get myself something more like 5 or 8 mpixel, but the Finepix gives 1/2 size A4 prints on a Epson photo stylus and they look pretty good to me, details good, you can zoom in and read the text on a magazine in the background of a family portrait for example, plus a little post processing never goes amiss, but I think most of it is down to Epsons printer drivers, they give damn good results.



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Posted: 24th Oct 2005 18:32 Edited at: 24th Oct 2005 18:34
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I would love your camera too! I'm still on 2.1 megapixels

What I was trying to say was this...If you are going to invest in a digital SLR, you want to make sure it's capable in all respects. The beauty of an SLR is that the quality of lenses and the photo you take (rather than the photo you have edited) are so much better. It would be a shame to spend £500 on an SLR, only to find that you can't print a wall-picture sized print.

I have 2 20" * 30" pictures of my kids, framed and hanging in the living room. They look very professional, taken with a 2.1 megapixel camera. BUT I cheated They are both montages of other photos, carefully edited to look like they were taken together. So as you can see, each individual image is only a third or so of the full picture.



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Ok, everyone, in unison...

Aaawwwwwwwwwww


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Quote: "and coupled to the PC with a serial cable, not usb, SERIAL,"

my friend's family has one of those it's kinda cool, tis a nice camera tho, they probably spent a fortune when they got it tho

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well I know I did, it was a nice camera, and awesome for the technology of the day, but you can buy something better for a fraction of the cost now, I gave it to my Brother but I think he let the kids use it and it got trashed (dropped on something hard and unyeilding) so that was end of that.

these new cameras take different lenses just like the old SLR`s, although some seem to have an electronic iris and/or focussing built in and need to match that standard (back when I was into photography all you had to worry about was bayonet or threaded lenses and not getting the threads damaged), these newer cameras are nice, I was just looking around the net, some realy nice stuff available atm and better coming soon.



@Batvink: good picture that, looks professional quality.

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I read something on a gadget site the other day saying Kodak has developed a 39 MegaPixel chip. Golly.

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The picture above is A2 sized, and I had it printed for free by Epson, on Canvas-style paper. You too can get a free print...listen carefully...

Below is the link to the free print service. Do EXACTLY as it says on the instructions. Why? Because the service isn't officially available right now, but this is a link to an old page. If you read the instructions, and do as it says, they will honour your request. Nice people

When you get your print, treat it with respect. You got it for free, buy yourself a nice frame and mount it! Treat your parents or whoever to a fantastic present if you don't want it.

I have another picture done a professional outfit. It's very similar, and it cost £600!!!! Yes, six hundred big ones! That's why you should take advantage!

http://www.epson.co.uk/4000sample/index05.htm

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Is your camera picture taken with... your camera?


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Quote: "Is your camera picture taken with... your camera?"


Not possible.

However, if you are fast enough you can catch the camera-shaped cloud of dust you leave behind as you whip the camera around. You know, like the Roadrunner.


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Or you could buy two.

Or you could be a time traveller and just so happen to be sneaking a piccy from behind the sofa. The you from 2030 that is. But then you would probably prefer to use your 1000 megapixel Canodak effort with 100tb of storage (on a tiny diamond embedded in your toothpaste or somesuch). But then that picture could be the thumbnail for the really big picture. Assuming of course that you were wearing a really white T-shirt and have invisible hands.

Or you could use a mirror and a paint program (such as paint) maybe.

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@Jim:I've tried but that doesn't work. For sure I'm very fast (I have a fast certificate from fast president) but maybe it's because I don't own the Joel's Nikon 5600 5.1 megapixels.


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Quote: " Or you could buy two. "

Or use a mirror..

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Or you could read a few lines below...

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He has mirrored your post...


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Quote: "Or you could read a few lines below..."


Quote: "use your 1000 megapixel Canodak effort with 100tb of storage (on a tiny diamond"


Nope, don't see anything there.

Quote: " He has mirrored your post...
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Oui, c'est ca.

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A few is not two.....

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A few is something like a bundle or an assortment.

an assortment of lines below, Benji...

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Quote: "A few is not two....."

Indeed, its not seven either.

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haha

weeee

Fun camera, came with a butt load of happy things too
like
6 sheets of 4x6 photo paper for my printer (doesn't help me, i have about 500 sheets of photo paper in my cupboard )
few coupons ($10 off SD Memory card from Kodak, $10 off a Tripod that i'm going to get , and $5 off Digital Photo for Dummies, bunch of other stuff)
E-Z Print & Share software, probably sucks, haven't installed
18 free Photo classes, they say each one is a $10-$25 value
I'm going to go to the photo classes because it could be handy to know how to take pictures and make them actually look good

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Quote: "Or you could be a time traveller and just so happen to be sneaking a piccy from behind the sofa. The you from 2030 that is."


But then the you from 2030 would have the photo of the camera, and according to the timestamp on his post... it's not 2030.


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Quote: "But then the you from 2030 would have the photo of the camera"

and you from 2030 would be EXPECTING it, and would be waiting with a knife...

THAT would be interesting, because you can't KILL yourself, else it never would've happened anyway...thus keeping you alive.

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Quote: "Indeed, its not seven either"
Not on my mega display

Nah, the 2030 you is the one taking the picture. And the timestamp is wrong cos you are a bit of a twot at setting times on things. The video is still flashing from 1987 for example. Also we won't mention why you are taking pictures of yourself... dirty old perv (2030 you).....

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