Digital Camera ?

[manticore]

LOL Oh my it looks like I'm going to have to keep my husband away from this board for a few days! lol He'll fall over if he realizes he could have gotten a better deal on the same product elsewhere! LOL

Oh, I feel for him. I am the same way, drives the DW nuts.

 

[KirstenJB]

I have the Canon Powershot S1 IS. I absoutly love it. My dad has the Canon A70 and it's a great camera too. Canons are really good cameras. I hope you enjoy yours.

Kirsten

 

[manticore]

Hey...thanks for all your help! I just ordered a Canon A95 from Dell. It actually worked very well...I just bought a computer from Dell, so they gave me a $35 coupon for accessories and with the discount there and free shipping, I got if for $244. Hope that was a decent deal! Wish me luck with it! THANKS AGAIN!

tikkipoo
I don't know if you have a printer yet but if you need one, www.newegg.com has the Canon Pixma IP3000 photo printer for $69.95 and since you just bought the Canon A95 you can get a $70.00 rebate so all it will cost you is shipping which is about $4.75 for ExpressSaver FedEx.

 

[ShadowWind]

I have an Olympus 740UZ and I love the thing to death. It did quite well in Disney's severe lighting conditions. It also takes regular AA batteries. Rayovac has rechargables which will last almost the whole day on a 15 minute charge. I also recommend a larger memory card for bigger pictures. You can see the Olympus pictures I shot in my signature.

Disney themselves will convert your memory card to CD-ROM at all the parks, check the camera stores, although last I checked it was $20 for 100 pictures. There are much cheaper places to get them done (basically any processing place), but it's convenient. They don't have printing/processing services though that I'm aware of. Also Disney uses CD-R's, so be careful, as a couple people had complained about not having the picture and the CD-R didn't work in their drive.

 

[DisneyForLife]

I have the Sony cubershot and love it. Does anyone know a good reputable place online to buy a new memory card?
Thanks.

 

[manticore]

I have the Sony cubershot and love it. Does anyone know a good reputable place online to buy a new memory card?
Thanks.

Dell Home has 25% off most of their memory cards including Memeory stick. Deal ends today.

 

[DisneyForLife]

Thank you so much for that info, I will head on over right now.

 

[spoon2003]

Went over to Dell to browse and ended up buying a 1GB Kingston for $59.99 with $15 rebate, no tax and free ship!!! I find myself doing alot more short video clips and those eat up memory fast.

Sue

 

[tigertam]

could anyone help with printing of digital pictures while im there as i would like to print them out and put them on to disk. is there any where on international drive that does them while you wait and how dear is it.
im staying at ramada inn lakeside so somewhere local to that would be nice.

this is my first visit with 2 children so will have lots to print and keep to show when get home

I do not want to print them out at Disney but would like to keep shooting pictures. Does anyone know how much it costs to down load your pictures to a disk at WDW? Does anyone know if the resorts are doing this yet? Is it possible to get a list of photo places in WDW and contact them?

 

[ShadowWind]

Yes, it is possible to download your pictures to CD. It's $20 for 100 last time I was there, admittedly last year, so it might have gone up since then a bit. Doubt it if went down. I'm pretty sure the lady at Pop Century's gift shop told me they can take the memory card and have it sent out to EPCOT to have it processed and then returned. The parks take a bit of time to have it done as well, so it's not just pop it in a machine, spit it out in 5 minutes, type a deal.

 

[cocowum]

I was wondering if and what the difference is between a Sandisk memory card(512mb) and a Kodak memory card(512mb)?? I have a kodak camera? TIA

 

[netposer]

I was wondering if and what the difference is between a Sandisk memory card(512mb) and a Kodak memory card(512mb)?? I have a kodak camera? TIA

Not really, more than likely they are the same thing but a different brand. It's hard to tell who actually manufactured the card. The only difference you might notice is the sticker/writing on the card itself. Good brands are Kingston, Sandisk, Lexar, Kingston and of course the camera brands.

Some SD,CompactFlash, XD, MS have different read/write speads (faster or slower) and the faster the RW speads the more expensive the card.

Unless you have a high-end camera it really won't matter. Find the best price and go with that.

There are a ton of rebates on camera memory all over the web. Sandisk, Lexar, Kingston seem to be offering $15-25 rebates on all their cards.

 

[mel63]

Nothing, as long as they are the same type of card like an SD card. But, there a few different types of cards, like xD, CF, SD, smart media & memory stick etc. Just make sure that the type is the same. Some cards are a little faster than others, but that shouldn't matter. Sandisk is just the name of the company that puts out that particular card. Hope this helps.

 

[netposer]

I have the Sony cubershot and love it. Does anyone know a good reputable place online to buy a new memory card?
Thanks.

I buy and recommend a lot of digital cams and accessories and here are a few of my favorite sites:

Newegg.com - Take advantage of their very low or even free shipping. I've had great success with them in the last few years and their shipping is fast and they beat most veryone else's prices on most if not all items. Order something on a Monday and you'll get it Wed or Thursday with their standard shipping.

ZipZoomFly.com - They are almost identical to newegg.com but don't have as much inventory as newegg.com. Shipping is super fast and can be free depending on the product. I buy from here also

ecost.com is great if you like rebates. I think I've bought most all my memory cards from these folks and they make the rebate process painless by providing pdf and info links for the rebate products. They also have a thing called "Bargain Countdown" that lists all their specials, how mean of each, how many sold/left. If you don't mind rebates you can get some of the best deals for memory cards here. It's the same company as PC Mall / Mac Mall.

Other sites that you can start your search for digital cams/accessories is Pricewatch.com and try Froogle (Visit Google and search for a particular camera then click the "froogle" link at the top).

My one word of advice is to stay away from any area code from NYC. You'll see camera's for half of what everyone else is selling them. But when you dig deeper you will see shipping costs that are 20% of the price and accessories that are 3 to 5 times more expensive than normal. They are rude and they will try to get you to spend more. I called a few places when looking for a Sony cam and when I said I wasn't interested in any accessories they hung up on me--no kidding. Just ignore the cheapest prices and use common sense when searching.

Maybe I'll post some buying and technical tips for digi-cams next. But if you have any questions please post and I'll be happy to answer them. I've owned quite a few digital cameras in the past 10 years. I'm no pro photographer but I know what works and doesn't work for myself and my wife when it comes to cameras.

 

[netposer]

Yes, it is possible to download your pictures to CD. It's $20 for 100 last time I was there, admittedly last year, so it might have gone up since then a bit. Doubt it if went down. I'm pretty sure the lady at Pop Century's gift shop told me they can take the memory card and have it sent out to EPCOT to have it processed and then returned. The parks take a bit of time to have it done as well, so it's not just pop it in a machine, spit it out in 5 minutes, type a deal.

If it's $20 per 100 photos than that's way too pricey. If your camera was a 5 Megapixel version than you could fit 2 to 3 times that many a CD. It'd be cheaper to buy/borrow a few more memory cards.

I take my laptop with me and copy them each night. I even upload them to my own server or to ofoto.com.

There are devices you can buy that are like portable hard disks that you can plug you camera into but they are expensive. Most are hundreds of dollars:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,,1773343,00.asp

 

[cocowum]

thanks so much!!! I found a Sandisk 512mb memory card online at Dell for 39.99. I printed out the ad and brought it to my local Staples. They offer 110% price match. They match the price and then give you an additional 10% of the difference. So it ended up being about $40 after tax. plus they had an $18 rebate. So in the end the (512mb) card is only costing $22.

 

[manticore]

If it's $20 per 100 photos than that's way too pricey. If your camera was a 5 Megapixel version than you could fit 2 to 3 times that many a CD. It'd be cheaper to buy/borrow a few more memory cards.

I take my laptop with me and copy them each night. I even upload them to my own server or to ofoto.com.

There are devices you can buy that are like portable hard disks that you can plug you camera into but they are expensive. Most are hundreds of dollars:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,,1773343,00.asp

I have the X-Drive portable hard drive (doubles as an MP3 player). The case can be had for around $85 @ http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=VP-300&cpc=SCH then you need a laptop drive to put in it. I had upgraded my laptop from 20Gb to a 60GB so I used that. It is relatively small, works great and takes most memory cards, including CompactFlash Type I (CF) CompactFlash Type II SmartMedia (SM) Memory Stick (MS) Memory Stick Pro (MS Pro) SecureDigital (SD) MultiMedia Card (MMC) & IBM MicroDrive. I got sick of lugging my laptop around and this drive fits easily in the safe.

 

[netposer]

thanks so much!!! I found a Sandisk 512mb memory card online at Dell for 39.99. I printed out the ad and brought it to my local Staples. They offer 110% price match. They match the price and then give you an additional 10% of the difference. So it ended up being about $40 after tax. plus they had an $18 rebate. So in the end the (512mb) card is only costing $22.

sweet. You sound like one of the fatwallet.com regulars

 

[netposer]

I have the X-Drive portable hard drive (doubles as an MP3 player). The case can be had for around $85 @ http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=VP-300&cpc=SCH then you need a laptop drive to put in it. I had upgraded my laptop from 20Gb to a 60GB so I used that. It is relatively small, works great and takes most memory cards, including CompactFlash Type I (CF) CompactFlash Type II SmartMedia (SM) Memory Stick (MS) Memory Stick Pro (MS Pro) SecureDigital (SD) MultiMedia Card (MMC) & IBM MicroDrive. I got sick of lugging my laptop around and this drive fits easily in the safe.

20 GB should be plenty of storage while on vacation. I still have to bring my laptop so we can watch DVD's in the minivan while traveling down I95. And I have to check me email and stuff too.

 

[manticore]

20 GB should be plenty of storage while on vacation. I still have to bring my laptop so we can watch DVD's in the minivan while traveling down I95. And I have to check me email and stuff too.

I know the feeling, latest vehicle has the DVD built in for driving and we fly almost exclusively Song or Jet Blue for in flight TV and movies. I am a www.fatwallet.com and www.techbargains.com junkie. I have a thin wallet because of those sites, but hey I save a lot.