Got a digital camera today..

[Maverick]

decided to crawl out from under my rock and get into the 21st century and got me a digital camera:

Canon Powershot A620


Don't know too much about it besides the reviews and my budget but I've always had Canons and always enjoyed how the pictures came out. I'm just getting tired of scanning photos these days.

[iacas]

I hope that's not real-life size.

[BigAl5150]

Mav,

Purchased the same camera last month before trip to NY and Boston. Takes great pictures and is easy to use. You'll like it.

[Maverick]

Mav,

Great! Yeah turns out that the A620 has a good following and pretty hefty in terms of your budget digi-cams with decent photographic options..can't wait to play with it.

Do you have any photos taken with it that I can check out? Have you developed any prints from it?

[sole wolf]

your pics are only as good as the weakest link... I hope you got a good printer to go along with that.

Mine is a canon pixma mp780 and the prints from the nikon 5.1 are better then from the ones we used to get back from the photo developer

[Maverick]

whoa..really.!?! I was just planning on taking my SD card to the photo place and have them develop it. Hmm..

[iacas]

whoa..really.!?! I was just planning on taking my SD card to the photo place and have them develop it. Hmm..

Well, you can do that, but your best bet is to use iPhoto or, more likely, Photoshop Express ($99 still, I believe) to improve, crop to the proper size, etc. Then you burn a CD and take them to Wal-Mart or something for $0.19 prints.

[Maverick]

Took some outdoor pics today at the beach:









think they came out pretty good..on the AUTO setting..this camera has so many shooting options..like a real SLR..I'd like to know how this picture will differ from those more expensive DSLR's..

[ryns2]

Good choice! I just bought a Canon SD 600 for its more compact size. Canon has the best picture quality.

[Maverick]

Good choice! I just bought a Canon SD 600 for its more compact size. Canon has the best picture quality.

I've always been satisfied with Canon's. I own a few already..film..and they were just so durable and the photos were perfect. I'll have a better idea when I print some.

[JSF35]

decided to crawl out from under my rock and get into the 21st century and got me a digital camera:

I just bought the same camera a few hours ago!

[Maverick]

I just bought the same camera a few hours ago!

Dude, it's a sweeet camera. It fills the void between you're "point and shooters" and the more advanced manual sets (messing with f-stops, apertures, etc). I'm having so much with mine right now. Best part is I can practice all day with my 1 GB SD. Key will be how they look when developed.

[greenail]

Well, you can do that, but your best bet is to use iPhoto or, more likely, Photoshop Express ($99 still, I believe) to improve, crop to the proper size, etc. Then you burn a CD and take them to Wal-Mart or something for $0.19 prints.

I highly recommend the gimp

http://www.gimp.org GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program free, open source and very activly developed. There are also tons of turorials around. http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/ I'm using a Ricoh R4 which I love 28–200 mm (wide angle is quite nice), 6Mpixel and very small. http://www.letsgodigital.org/en/news...tory_6525.html