[Jacob-list] taking pics

[sbennett]

Royal wrote:

>I am really enjoying the pictures.  I finally convinced myself to get 
>either a digital camera or a scanner so I can do the same.  I am 
>wondering what method/brands etc people have found to give a decent 
>quality picture and provide versatility.

We bought a Kodak DC265, zoom camera last Fall. It's mid price range. We 
were looking for best picture resolution for the buck. We have a Mac 
computer and PhotoShop software (lots of good photo/printing type 
software for Macs, I don't know about other PC's). For printing out 
photos, we use a Hewlett Packard Deskjet 970 Cxi color printer with photo 
quality paper. Its hard to tell the difference between what I can print 
and the photos I had to run into town to pick up.

I love my digital camera and set up. It has made my life soo much easier. 
I can go out in the field, zoom in, take the picture, PREVIEW THE PICTURE 
on this little screen on the back of the camera, if its out of focus or 
the lighting is bad, I can delete the picture and take another. The 
camera holds a number of pics at one time (depending on how you set the 
quality controls). When I'm done shooting, I bring it in, download the 
pictures into the computer (frees up the camera to be used again). I can 
crop and size at will. I can create Galleries of pictures (arrange photos 
in files by groups or individuals). When someone bought a lamb from me 
and wanted pictures of its parents (which I had on file), I just looked 
them up, printed them out, and off they went.

Debbie Bennett
Feral Fibre