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Northern Rancher
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Location: saskatchewan
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| Panasonic makes a camera it's the DMC FZ 10that has a 12X optical zoom plus antishake technology so you don't need a tripod-it's the next one on my wish list. One thing digitals are going to good for is range monitoring-I take a picture of each pasture move in and out. Imagine how interesting it will be to compare dates and grass growth from year to year.
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Maple Leaf Angus
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Joined: 10 Feb 2005
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Location: Southern Ontario
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ranchwife
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Location: ennis, montana
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Northern Rancher
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Location: saskatchewan
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| Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 11:52 am Post subject: |
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| I see Canon just came out with a 12X image stabilized camera al;so.
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HAY MAKER
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Joined: 13 Feb 2005
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Location: Texas
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| Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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| I see Canon just came out with a 12X image stabilized camera al;so. |
where did you see that 12X canon at Northern Rancher?...............good luck
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Faster horses
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Joined: 11 Feb 2005
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| ranchwife, was that a Kodak you got? If so, that is what I bought to replace the one I lost. This one was $299, but then I saw one for $199. Different mexapixals is one reason for the price difference. I am scared to unpack mine, because sure as I do, the lost one will turn up. Then what will I do with 2 digital cameras?
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Angus Girl
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Joined: 15 Feb 2005
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Location: Saskatchewan
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I too have a sony cybershot like soapweed. This camera is incredibly easy to use with lots of zoom for my liking. I have been doing all of my research on coat colour in cattle so I have 1000s of pictures since Christmas time. This camera is incredibly easy to download and have all of the pictures on my computer and anyone elses for that matter.
It wasn't until this weekend that I tried to send some pictures of sale heifers that I realized what a pain dial up is for uplaoding pictures. I think I sat for about half an hour trying to upload one on to three different e-mail services with absolutely no sucess. So I brought my pictures back to the city with me and it took no time at all to send the pictures on high speed.
The one thing I worry about on this camera is that it takes up alot of battery power when running the smaller LCD screen and at the 5.1 megapixel range alot of your memory card is used with only a small number of pictures. It does give you easy ways to reduce the size of the picture you are taking and really these pictures are just as good at the 5x7 size anyways.
As far as price goes, Mom bought it for me for Christmas and was going way out of her range but figured you get what you pay for so she went the long haul. With a 128 memory card I think it was around 449.00 Canadian. Mom didn't put it on her visa so I wanted to return it and pay for it so I could get double the warranty after christmas and in that time the Camera went down approx. 130 and the memory card was another 15. So slowly the prices are going to be more manageable thats for sure!
All in all I love this camera... there are so many different options that you can pick these days but this is a very simple point and shoot camera for beginners!
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Faster horses
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I don't know very much about this subject, but just yesterday I was told that if you don't use your screen to take pictures, just use the viewfinder, that it would save your batteries, big time.
Does that make sense, or did I not repeat it correctly? Let me know, as I can find out again from the person the correct terminology.
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Angus Girl
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Location: Saskatchewan
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| Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 11:04 am Post subject: |
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Definitely if you do not use the screen and just use the view finder you save alot of battery time. Which is what I have learned to do... except when filming movies I tend to use the screen a lot more. My model of camera has a smaller screen which helps to decrease some battery use as well.
I was also playing with my batteries one day and realized that even though I have low battery or missing about two bars I still had LOTS of camera time left. This is probably just an individual camera thing though as well and how much time I let my batteries charge initially.... It was christmas and I am sure that I started playing with the camera a little earlier than I should have!
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Northern Rancher
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Location: saskatchewan
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| Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 12:22 am Post subject: |
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| Haymaker I saw it in a Future Shop e-mail but I'm sure if you go to Canon's web site they will have them there.
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Northern Rancher
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Location: saskatchewan
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| Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 12:23 am Post subject: |
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| I always use just the viewfinder -I can hold them camera alot steadier that way-I tend to get shaky taking pictures of our huge deer up here lol.
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Big Muddy rancher
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Location: Big Muddy valley
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| Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 9:03 am Post subject: |
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| You need a camers in your scope. Then you can say "Sorry officer I was just taking his picture and my finger slipped"
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) at K-Mart (yep....big spender, here!)....it was the little camera with the picture dock! Anyone know anything about these??? are they worth the money or should i just stick to my cheap little 35 mm!!?? 