Comments on: Digital Cameras

By: maca

maca — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 09:57:15 +0000

The National Geographic site is gifted, the photography is outstanding!

By: Daithi

Daithi — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 07:10:00 +0000

Cheers Mick.Mi advechur wid de “Paws” buton left me unabel too spel.Dokter haz given mi pilz dough.Shud be fyne in a wile.

By: Mick

Mick — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 20:29:11 +0000

Daithi: Missing the second G in geographic in the URI you posted. Should be:

http://nationalgeographic.com/

Here’s the link for the digikam review there:
http://nationalgeographic.com/adventure/0511/gear/digital_cameras_gallery.html

By: Daithi

Daithi — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 07:18:10 +0000

Maca,Go to http://www.nationalgeoraphic.com and go to the Focus on Photography section.There’s even a review of digital cameras if you’ve not aleady bought one.I’m hopeless with technology so it’s fitting that I work in a museum.I can just about grasp 1940′s tech and buttons clearly marked “On” or “Off” on a particularly daring day last week I experimented with “Pause” and had to have a bit of a lie down afterwards.

By: maca

maca — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 13:28:54 +0000

Daithi, no amount of expert processing could do much with my photos.
A few lessons would be nice all the same, just to understand a bit more about the whole thing. I’m not very arty at all. Bit farty though.

National Geographic though, i’m very impressed!

By: Daithi

Daithi — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:09:34 +0000

PS we go through cameras in our house like a transvestite goes through tights.By the time I get around to looking at the manual for (what I think) is our current one we’ve moved on once or twice.

By: Daithi

Daithi — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:07:23 +0000

‘Fraid not Maca.She’s a bit on the tempermental side being all arty and shite.I can say that because she in the bathroom practicing-wrestling some Amazonian man-eating octopus that she brought back from her last expedition.Seriously though a lot of “operator error” with 35mm can be cut by getting your pics properly processed in a lab with human beings.The National Geographic lab is open to the public and even though it’s a little more expensive the quality of their work is top notch.Then again the flight to DC would be a bit pricey.Whatever you do DON”T drop yer stuff off at the Mega-mart variant store with 1 hour photo.They are nothing but a pile of arses waiting to bollix up your film.

By: maca

maca — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:39:25 +0000

Thanks again lads.
Mick, reviews, got it!
Daithi, I have a 35mm SLR for the special pics. Don’t have a clue how to use it though. Your wife give photography lessons?

By: Antonio from Italy

Antonio from Italy — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 22:57:15 +0000

Daithi,
please don’t remind me of the lag!
Just tonight I missed two “maybe” wonderful pictures due to this crazy thing!!!
I can’t stand it and I don’t know why the engineers don’t work it around

By: Daithi

Daithi — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:39:46 +0000

Away with that digital shite…the lag will drive you mental.Spend those bobs on a old school 35mm.(My wife works for National Geographic and is a bit of a purist..in fact she’s threatening to pitch the lovely digital camera I bought for meself into the fire if I didn’t say that.I thought I had it well hidden under the lino in the jacks…….)