DigitalCameras
Preferred Features
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Optical zoom.
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AA batteries.
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Small, portable, rugged.
Ideas
- Casio QVr-4x
- http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Casio/casio_qvr40.asp
- http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Casio/casio_qvr41.asp
- FujiFilm Finepix 3x0
- http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Fujifilm/fuji_finepixa340.asp
- http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Fujifilm/fuji_finepixa330.asp (good)
- http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=30-122-032&depa=7
- http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=30-122-033&depa=7
- Ricoh RX
- http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Ricoh/ricoh_rx.asp (import, EBay)
Settled On
- Fuji Finepix 340
- http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=30-122-033
- Fuji 265MB xD-Picture card
- http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=20-198-007
- USB xD-Picture card reader
- http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=20-196-004
- Works with Linux (mount as usb storage device)
- http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=2600
- http://www.teaser.fr/~hfiguiere/linux/digicam.html
- http://www.brothas.net/~nugator/FujiFinePixandLinux.html
- Self-portrait with new camera
- http://msittig.wubi.org/photos/2004/brea_bathroom_newCameraSelfPortrait.jpg
Nearly a Year Later...
This camera is bad in low lighting conditions (high red-yellow shift), and has no image stabilization feature, meaning fuzzy pictures in no-flash, indoor lighting situations.
A Year Later
It turns out that optical zoom isn't such a big deal to me as I though it would be. My priorities are now something like this:
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AA batteries.
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Small, portable, rugged.
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Linux compatibility.
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Options to play with.
The Finepix fails on options to play with; it's very dumbed down. And it comes with various other stresses. Right now I'm going lofi and loving it with my sister's RCS CDS1005:
It's Linux compatible through libgphoto, and runs forever on two AA batteries. The manual says it can only store 16 photos in Fine mode, but each time you turn it off and on it recalculates from the space left and ups the number a little. I've had as many as twenty eight pictures on it at once.