On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 10:39:20AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > This made me think the floppy thing was not viable. How does it > work out for you? > I'll put in another recommendation for the Mavica. I bought an ancient Sony Mavica FD-73 about a month ago and it does exactly what I need. The standard resolution is 640x480 and I get anywhere from 25-40 pics per floppy. There are a few things that I really dig about this: + I can send the picture of in an email without having to edit or crop or scale it (the cropping process is why i never used my scanner). Also, I have gotten too many 3 MB bitmap attachment from digicam newbies lately. + I can view the floppies on any machine anywhere - whether it is at home, on my laptop, in a netcafe, or someone else's office. + I can use the floppies as an archive method and only store the choice photos on my machine. After I come back from a trip, I save the good pics to a directory on my hard drive and send them out to everyone by email, and then I just label the floppies and stick them in a drawer. Of course, it helps that I have about 300 used floppies lying around. The only major drawbacks to this camera: - I am obviously not going to be taking print-quality photos - It's a brick. The floppy drive doesn't really help the form factor. If you are looking for a camera to get quick photos and publish them to the web or send them in email, the Mavica is the camera. g
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