One of the things I hate doing is resizing photos. It's easy enough in Linux on the command line with the resize command, but I prefer to just post pics straight from the camera.

Playing with camera setting to get a 640x480 pic size is posiible on some cameras, but often buried a few menus deep.

I have a different approach.

I use an old HP C200 camera, 1MP- native resolution is 640x480. So I pull out the CF card, pop it in the reader, and upload. Much easier.

I took this pic with the webcam on my laptop, since I can't take a pic of my camera I use for webshots with the camera I use for webshots....




I do have better cameras, but this does an admirable job for pics that are going to be posted in forums.


How do you get your web pics? :redXdance

 

I don't take anything smaller than what the camera can allow. That way it saves the most detail and all, then I can scale back... I just use Photoshop CS3 for that.

 

Agreed. You never know what picture you may want to print in full size

 

agreed as well. I use Aperture to manage all of my photos so it is 3 button clicks away to output any of the presets I set up. Or send them straight to email, or flickr, etc.

Actually you can take a photo with that camera, of that camera. Just need a mirror and enough light to not use a flash.

 

Seeing that old camera reminds me of my friends digital camera...it was the first one I had ever seen, and we would always play with it. Gosh... that was probably back in '01 or so, so what 9 years ago. It was an HP, and it used floppy disks! The file sizes were probably small, terrible quality, and it only fit I think 20-30 pictures per floppy!

 

Actually, I take that back...it was a Sony:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=310210563777

Being a photographer, I collect old cameras. Figured with the sentimental value, I had to add one of these to my collection!

 

Ahhh, a fellow Mac user.

I shoot with a Sigma SD14 for most situations. It doesn't have a lot of bells and whistles, but the color reproduction is amazing. For action shots I pull out the old Minolta 7D, but it has been having issues more frequently as of late. Maybe I need a new Nikon, or maybe, just maybe, I could spend that money on a new turbo, and some IC pipes, an IC. I could go on, but I think I hear the alarm, time to wake up.

 

One I use is my Olympus "Camedia" C-5000ZOOM, it can take better pics than I can shoot..

 

I still use my Sony Mavica........ Guess I belong in a museum as well?

 

For great color shots (flowers & macro shots) I love to use my old Olympus C3030.
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0001/00...mpusc3030z.asp

All my other pics are from a Canon S5iS. I have multiple thread on lenses & filters, from ultra wide, 4 steps of macro, and super zoom. I couldn't afford an SLR-so this was as close as I could get.
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canons5is/

Love both cameras & sometimes use an original Canon AE1 film camera (Moms) with a manual superzoom lense & tripod.

Even most newer low end digitals perform great. For $80 you can get a great all around one. Add a cheap photo fix program and your good to go.

It's not having the best camera-it's how you use the camera you can afford.
Mike