I don't pretend to know as much about this stuff as many of the others but this is what I think.
I might be wrong but I think the camera you mention saves the pictures on a floppy. A floppy will only save 1.4+ megs. That is not much information if you are gonna print the pictures. Especially when you can save 20 pictures or so on one.
They work great on the web. Beautiful pictures as many have shown. Great close-ups.
Problem comes when you want to print a picture. You pretty much have to print what you got. You can adjust the picture but if you want to pick out a part of the picture and blow it up, you can't much.
With one of the better cameras the pictures with be taken at a meg or so. Some quite a bit higher. That is a lot of information! A floppy would not hold two of them. You can take a picture and zoom in zoom in one a part of it, in software and make a great, sharp picture. It is amazing how many great pictures you can get out of one original :0)
I would get one that uses a replaceable memory card. I have an old Kodak at work that will take a 128 meg card. I went out west with it a year ago and with the setting I used, could get a heck of a lot of fine quality pictures with it before I had to download them. Seems like it was 226 images. I shot everything and sorted them later.
I take my laptop on vacation with me and download every days pictures in a separate folder. When I get home I burn them all in the folders, to CD and then I have them. Now I play with them and can't screw up.
I suggest you get a camera with a removable storage and at least 2 meg. Mine will save up to 3.4 meg but I never use it. A zoom is nice. Optical zoom that is. Digital zoom degrades the picture a bit.
This is just my opinion and not ment to put down anyone with a camera with floppy storage. They are great for the net and very sharp but have downsides too.
If I am wrong with any of this let me know as I am not a photographer and am learning :0)
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