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I've been thinking that I want a basic digital camera that is of higher migapixels than the 3.1 one I have, mainly because at full (optical) zoom, the pictures turn out kind of impressionistic due to a lack of detail capture. But I am resisting the idea of getting one (short of buying a real SLR, as I was mumbling about a while back) because I just don't know what to do with the one I have. I am not simply going to throw it away, but it's very unlikely I could sell it (since the price I paid for it four years ago buys about twice as much camera now; plus the battery cover has never fit right and has a chip off it anyway), and I don't know of anywhere to give it away to (is there anywhere that recycles or redistributes, like cell phones?). It bothers me... a film camera is forever, barring mechanical failure; but a digital camera has to be continually upgraded, just like any other kind of electronic equipment, and then what do you do with the old ones? I don't want to contribute to that by buying anything other than another "forever" camera. Humph.
ETA: GreenDisk, who I've used before to dispose of some CDs and cassette tapes, apparently also takes other "technotrash" like cameras, although only in their "Can" products which costs a minimum of $29.95 (so it would make sense to build up a collection of stuff to send, to make it worthwhile).
ETA: GreenDisk, who I've used before to dispose of some CDs and cassette tapes, apparently also takes other "technotrash" like cameras, although only in their "Can" products which costs a minimum of $29.95 (so it would make sense to build up a collection of stuff to send, to make it worthwhile).
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Date: Jun. 13th, 2007 12:17 am (UTC)From:You could hack the camera, maybe. It's well beyond me. If I do in fact get another one, though, I might be willing to let you have the one I have. It's only a Kodak EasyShare DX6340 tho.)
"You can get a full DSLR setup for US$600 by the way."
Still something that requires planning into the budget, rather than "I think I'll buy a camera today!", which I can just about do in the $150-200 range.
(I'd recommend the old 50mm f1.4 lens, which is what I use for everything these days, but you'll have to manually focus it on the D40; The D50, and up, will auto-focus with old lenses.)
But I want manual focus. Not being able to manually focus is one of the things that annoys me so much about point-and-shoots, even fancy ones. y Pentax body is theoretically capable of driving an AF lens but I never spent the money on one, so I am deep in the grip of MF. Heh.