Re: PHOTO: Camera question

I am in the middle of this question.  I have a Nikon Cool Pix 5000 that cost
over $1100 (I didn't pay a penny of that--it was a gift from my daughters)
that I am finally beginning to learn to use with flexibility.  It has a 5
megapixel design, perhaps more than I need or will ever need.

It is, as all Nikon equipment has been in my experience, extremely well made,
well engineered and designed for the person who wants to move *way* beyond the
"point and shoot" approach to photography.

There are a number of aspects of digital photography compared to film use that
I value highly.  For one thing, the equipment may have been, but no longer
seems to be, very pricey--*but*--there isn't a dime shelled out for film,
prints and copies unless one wants to convert the image.  It doesn't cost
anything to connect the camera to the computer and load the images into
memory, then erase the memory on the camera's card.

The memory card in the camera can be reused almost indefinitely, and is easy
to switch out in the field, on the run.  Having an extra one or two, plus a
supply of batteries in the ditty bag, fanny pouch or purse--whichever one has
for "stuff,"-- is a good idea when at a convention or large garden so one is
not limited to the number of images acquired at the site.

The digital images are easy to alter, once one has a usable photo-handling
program, including repair of tears, shifting color balances to correct (or
belie) the photo relative to the actual color of the object, increasing or
decreasing contrast and so on.

One can cut, crop, compose or edit the photo almost to the limits of ones
imagination.  I've yet to see a film-based image with which this can be done,
unless scanned into digital form first.  Those are never quite as good as the
straight-to-digital images.

All in all, I would suggest--buy the best one can afford, and then some.  As
learning progresses, the "need" ( or desire for ) features grows with the
learning.

Neil Mogensen   z 7 western NC

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