Digital Camera question?????

[WendyZ]

I was just wondering....is there a digital camera out that you can get normal photo pictures with? I love being able to see your photos, so you know if there good or not. But I don't want to give up my regular photographs. I've seen a digital booth in walmart, it said something about sticks or disks. But I wonder if it gives you the "copy looking" pictures. I want real pictures, like with 35mm film. If you do this kind of photography, is it more expensive to get the pictures than the 35mm film.

Any recommendations on cameras???

Thanks...I hope you can understand this. As you can see I have alot to learn about digital cameras!!!

 

[helenabear]

My guess is those booths will print out on regular photo paper (like what you get your 35 mm prints on) for you. My local photo store does the same thing as well. Acutally most of the images are transfered digitally now (no matter what you use to take the pic) and then printed at the places around here. I haven't gotten prints in a long time but I know a lot of places can handle that now. They usually cost the exact same price as a reprint of regualr 35 mm film does. HTH.

 

[mickey4ver]

I am no expert here, zurg would be the one to answer, BUT, I got a digital camera and love it. I too was concerned about "real" prints as I like to scrapbook. Well, I download my photos to my computer from the digital, then "store" them to the online site called shutterfly.com (there are others out there, ofoto, snapfish, dot.photo and lots more) and after hosting them on this site, you can order prints, cards, calandars, little "brag" books etc. IMHO the prints I ordered were fantastic. It is a little pricey, but when I consider how many prints I sometimes didn't want/need or came out crummy and got printed anyway, this sort of equals out. You can pick and choose which ones you really want printed up. Also, you can add borders, effects and all kinds of stuff. It is still a learning process for me, but I'm enjoying playing with the photos online. I did a nice one of my children sitting in front of the Walt Statue at DL, put some special effects on it (like a black oval on the edges) and had it framed up for them for a holiday gift. They loved it, and it almost looked like someone that knew what they were doing had done it.

So, think about it and look at all the options. I think once you go digital, it will be hard to ever go back to regular cameras.

 

[WendyZ]

Thanks for your thoughts.

I love to scrapbook to mickey4ever, that's why I want my prints! I just started in Dec. My DD and I are having a ball!!

 

[elgerber]

I have a digital was very concerned about print quality as well. I have not used shutterfly yet, but I have seen prints from there and they are fantastic. For our Christmas cards this year, we took pics with the digital, then I edited out the red-eye, put them on a CD and took them to Ritz. In less than an hour I had 50 prints that no one would ever know did not come from a regular camera.

Erika

 

[Beauty]

I haven't had prints printed at Wal-Mart yet with my new digital camera but I must admit I'm LOVING the camera! Its a simple Kodak EasyShare DX4330 it was right at $200 dollars and zooms wonderfully! I can't wait to try getting real pics though! Good luck with whatever you decide.

 

[WebmasterAlex]

I recently sent some digital photo's to photoworks. It was very convenient I could upload them from my computer. A week later they showed up in the mail. They absolutly looked like prints from a film camera. I got 4x6's and there is no way I could tell the difference between prints from that and my 35mm.
I'm sure you could tell the difference with 11x14 enlargements but for prints? Not a problem. They were .19 cents a print.

 

[Fire14]

What you can also do is:
Put pics on Cd take CD to walmart tell them to print pictures up it's .29/print. They are just like my prints from 35mm film. I did just this with some wedding pics. I know I can use online photo places but they charge .49/print and you have to pay shipping on top of this at least at ones I looked at.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Prints from digital are wonderful. The print itself is no different than one you would get from film, but as said, you only print the ones you want, and have, if you wish the ability to edit a bit beforehand. Once you have used digital, you will see why so many like it and it is 'catching on' so quickly.

 

[BibbidiBobbidiBOO]

I just did the Walmart thingie last week ! I put my card in the machine and they came up quickly on screen(but the image was not perfect). I chose the ones I wanted printed, the number of copies of each and in 1 hour they were ready. They appear no different than my 35 mm prints ! They look great!

 

[WebmasterAlex]

Try this Fire14
.19 cents a print and the service was fine

photoworks

 

[WendyZ]

Thanks guys! I think I'll have to go look at some cameras!!!

 

[brerrabbit]

My wife had been taking our digital pictures to Wal Mart for developing to (she does a lot of scrapbooking). For Christmas I got her a photo quality printer for $179 and since then she's been printing her own. It does both 4x6 and 8x10 and she loves it. The quality is really good and you really can't tell one she printed from the Wal Mart printed one.

 

[mickey4ver]

Just another little 2 cents here. Some have said the cost is a little high for printing from shutterfly and others...somewhat true. But once you register, they are always having some sort of promotion, percentages off, free shipping, deals on enlargements etc., so you can always wait, and send in a bigger order and save some $$. The more you have printed on one order, the less it costs. Also, when you consider what you can do within the cost, like editing out red-eye, borders, effects etc., it is still a pretty good deal...IMHO. I don't know about others, but on shutterfly when you get ready to order, they have boxes checked that let you know if a particular picture should be reproduced at 4x6, 5x7, wallet etc., so a little of the guess work is done for you.

Again, I'm still learning, but I'm very satisfied and not one bit sorry we do the digital thing! I do get carried away though, snapping everything that even moves!!! or looks interesting, figuring even if I don't want a "print" of it, I can keep it on my computer. Oh, you can have shutterfly put all the photos on a computer disc too if you like, I think that is like $20, but not sure on the price.

I had some really cute wallet size photos done up of the grandson to give to family, and they all loved them!

 

[SplshMtn99]

I don't know who makes it... but I remember seeing a camera in a sales flyer not too long ago.

It's a 35mm film camera. You take the picture, you view the picture on back of camera like on a digital camera, if you like the picture then you save it to film. But you still need to get the film developed.

It's just another option I thought I would mention.

 

[WendyZ]

What kind of camera would be better...one with a diskette or one with a memory stick? Or something else?

If I put my pics on a CD...does it have to be a special kind of CD or one that use to burn my music too? I have a CD-RM drive on my computer. Then I get them developed from that or my diskette/memorty stick, right?

I would like a zoom on my camera. Any have one with a zoom that they love??

Thanks for all the help....I'm getting more excited the more I read!!

 

[mickey4ver]

Again, I'M by NO means an expert here, but I got a Canon PowerShot S30 digital and love it. It is a little higher i price. It has a compact flash card, which is a very small, about an inch square little disc that goes in the camera. A member of my family has one that you put your computer type disc in, and I find it a bulky camera that you can only get a few pictures on and glad I didn't opt for that.

I chatted with zurg about what types of camera to look at and he directed me to some very good sites. I did a lot of pre-research on line and finally decided that this camera pretty much suited my needs. I found some online sites that I got an extra flash card very reasonably priced with free shipping, and also an extra battery at a good deal. If you have the time, it pays to surf the net and you can find good stuff. I even got an excellent deal on my camera, getting it on ebay from a Canadian dealer, and it was cheaper than I could buy it anywhere else, at the time.

Go to the camera companies websites and read about what type of cameras they make and also do an internet search on digital cameras, you'll be surprised at the wealth of information you can find.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Good, easy informative reading here. http://wdwig.com/digital.htm Make sure to check the review site links.

The most popular memory media currently is Compact Flash Card. SmartMedia is also fairly poplualr. Not sure if Sony makes the ones with floppies any longer, they were sort of first generation and have a severe limitation of storage capacity, only about 3 or 4 pictures per disk, compared to hundreds with the other media.

Any CD is fine, same as music ones. You can develop from either source, the Flash Card or Cd, or direct from your PC to an online site as mentioned above.