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Offline Sandwich

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Gotta love Sony: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0510/05100301sonydscn1.asp



It's a camera with a 3" wide-viewing-angle touch-screen LCD, that also acts as a photo album for 500 pictures. :)
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I still kind of like viewfinders, they're handy for bright-light conditions.
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Now that's the kind of display I've been waiting for.

Oh, and this caught my eye:
[q]Sony also mentioned that this is the first camera to feature 'Clear RAW NR' which hints that noise reduction is carried out on the RAW data before it is converted to JPEG.[/q]

Nifty. I however would like to see a shift away from JPEG in new cameras since the memory cards we use now mean we can use lossless compression methods more often without fear of running out of memory.

I also wouldn't object if they started supporting MPEG2 or 4 more often in these cameras video capture features.
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or better yet if they allowed suport for other codecs (divx)
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Silly Bobboau. Xvid > DivX.
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Originally posted by Bobboau
or better yet if they allowed suport for other codecs (divx)


Doesn't that fall under MPEG4? :p
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Silly Bobboau. Xvid > DivX.


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Doesn't that fall under MPEG4? :p


it should.
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Get that bloody LCD off the back of my camera, or at least have the decency to hide it and let me have a proper viewfinder.
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I definitely dont think it would be very durable :doubt:
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Originally posted by mikhael
Get that bloody LCD off the back of my camera, or at least have the decency to hide it and let me have a proper viewfinder.


Okay.

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Offline Grey Wolf

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I still use 35mm film.


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Originally posted by Sandwich


Okay.



;7

That totally beats my usual picture-taking appartus.
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Okay.



It certainly meets my bill on the wole hidden screen thing. It still suffers from non-swappable lenses (35mm cameras MUST use a standard modular lens assembly, else they're not worth buying) and it suffers from the most abhorrent sin of all.

Its a Sony, with all the craptacular baggage that brings. (which is a shame, becuase they really do design a nice package).
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The D70 has long been the object of my lust.
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Its a Sony, with all the craptacular baggage that brings. (which is a shame, becuase they really do design a nice package).


Mind clarifying that statement with some particulars?
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill

 

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I still use 35mm film.


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Yup, me too.  My family still hasn't advanced to the digital age yet.  And, even if they had, we'd just have a bunch of image files gathering virtual dust in a folder on a hard drive instead of a bunch of undeveloped rolls of film gathering dust in a drawer. :p

 

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The D70 has long been the object of my lust.


Amen.

(Actually my eyes are set on the more affordable D50, as the D70 is out of production and the D70s costs a lot more).

 

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Yup, me too.  My family still hasn't advanced to the digital age yet.  And, even if they had, we'd just have a bunch of image files gathering virtual dust in a folder on a hard drive instead of a bunch of undeveloped rolls of film gathering dust in a drawer. :p


My friends used a lot fof 35 on holiday this year and it's been an absolute swine for digital compilation. If you ever want to actually produce anything like a virtual album, interactive DVD-ROM (such as what I'm doing for the holiday) then go digital now. You will thank me during image processing.

The D70 is a lovely machine.
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