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Off Topic: Kodak DC5000 and memory are now dirt cheap *Pic*
By:Dale Frolander
Date: 11/7/2001, 9:47 pm

I put away my $300 tax return and had been saving it to buy a digital camera. I've been eyeing the kodak DC5000. It's weatherproof (not waterproof) and has 2.0 megapixels which is way more than enough. The camera had been over $500 everywhere I looked for months. Then one day recently I looked and it was around $300 so I bought one from cameraworld.com. It arrived the very next day. I then went to costco and bought a 128MB compact flash card for $60, that's dirt cheap.
With this card I can store about 208 pictures on it in the highest resolution and best quality, 580 pictures in standard resolution best quality, and 1580 pictures in standard resolution lowest quality.

The thing takes great pictures that are very sharp, the exposure is right, and the colors are spot on.

The only negative is that it's supposed to eat batteries if you use the screen a lot. I mostly use the eyepeice and have taken 70 pictures so far (almost all with the flash) with no battery problems. I bought a gazillion pack of AA batteries at costco a while back for somewhere around $10 so I don't think the battery problem is really an issue.

I would have posted a picture, but I just noticed that they said I'm beyond my 30 day trial period at photopoint.com. That bites!

By the way. After I bought mine I looked at www.costco.com and found it for $250. :(

Messages In This Thread

Off Topic: Kodak DC5000 and memory are now dirt cheap *Pic*
Dale Frolander -- 11/7/2001, 9:47 pm
PolaroidDigital.com is free and easy. *Pic*
John Monfoe -- 11/8/2001, 6:41 am
You could skip a step
Dan Ruff -- 11/8/2001, 9:23 am
Re: You could skip a step- I didn't know that. Thk *NM*
John Monfoe -- 11/9/2001, 6:47 am
Re: You could skip a step
Rob Macks -- 11/8/2001, 10:06 am
What did I start... Sorry.
John Monfoe -- 11/9/2001, 6:45 am
Re: What did I start... Sorry.
Rob Macks -- 11/9/2001, 9:16 am
Re: You could skip a step
Pete Rudie -- 11/8/2001, 11:31 am
Off Topic:Copyright
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 11/8/2001, 2:04 pm
I thought we learned from Napster OT
Paul G. Jacobson@aol.com -- 11/8/2001, 11:41 pm
Re: Off Topic:Copyright
David Hanson -- 11/8/2001, 4:45 pm
Right, no fights here ;) *NM*
Chip Sandresky -- 11/8/2001, 4:53 pm
Re: Well, that's interesting!
Don Beale -- 11/8/2001, 2:48 pm
Re: You could skip a step
Jim McKay -- 11/8/2001, 12:06 pm
Off Topic: Usage
Chip Sandresky -- 11/8/2001, 1:58 pm
If you have any legal authority for that position,
Pete Rudie -- 11/8/2001, 12:54 pm
Re: like footnotes
Dean Trexel -- 11/8/2001, 6:22 pm
Re: If you have any legal authority for that posit
Rob Macks -- 11/8/2001, 1:21 pm
Lighten up!
Pete Rudie -- 11/8/2001, 4:07 pm
Re: Hold it guys....
Shawn Baker -- 11/8/2001, 4:29 pm
Re: Hold it guys....
100GRIT -- 11/8/2001, 4:50 pm
Re: That's the problem with assumptions...
Shawn Baker -- 11/8/2001, 6:59 pm
Re: A good example of why...
Don Beale -- 11/8/2001, 7:55 pm
Re: Yup. *NM*
Shawn Baker -- 11/9/2001, 10:44 am
Re: Lots better choices for your money.
Peter -- 11/8/2001, 1:25 am
But it's a Canon
Dale Frolander -- 11/8/2001, 3:08 am
Re: Here's what I'm doing *Pic*
Roger Nuffer -- 11/8/2001, 2:42 am
120 scans at home
Paul G. Jacobson -- 11/8/2001, 4:00 pm
Re: That's a good way to go but...
Chip Sandresky -- 11/8/2001, 2:50 pm
Re: Scans from 120
David Marx -- 11/8/2001, 11:07 am
Re: Here's what I'm doing
Dan Ruff -- 11/8/2001, 10:08 am
Re: Here's what I'm doing
Dale Frolander -- 11/8/2001, 3:59 pm
Re: Here's what I'm doing
Bryan Sarauer -- 11/8/2001, 11:05 am
Re: Here's what I'm doing
Dan Ruff -- 11/8/2001, 12:08 pm
Re: Here's what I'm doing
Dale Frolander -- 11/8/2001, 3:53 pm
Re: Here's what I'm doing
Dan St. Gean -- 11/8/2001, 9:09 am
$250 dirt?! :) *NM*
Dean Trexel -- 11/7/2001, 10:48 pm
For decent digital camera, yes dirt. *NM*
Dale Frolander -- 11/8/2001, 1:03 am