One of my favourite gardening blogs, Cold Climate Gardening, has a lovely picture of some snowdrops, which reminded me of the fact that I am need of a digital camera to show you - as well as tell you - about my latest exploits.
Unfortunately I spent lots of money buying my first SLR about a year ago, and although I still haven't really grasped all its functions, I feel as if I need a digital camera too. Anyone who can suggest a good one for taking lots of gardening-related pictures, let me know.
Jane: I highly recommend a Sony Mavica. The model I bought about a year ago is MVC-FD75. The cool thing about it is pictures are stored on a floppy disk that you can then load onto your computer and manipulate the pictures as you need. It has a 10X optical zoom, has picture effects and is quite light and easy to carry. It has worked great for some of the pictures I use on my gardening site as well as my short story site, http://fernandoficus.blogspot.com. Good luck and let me know what you think, Nancy
Posted by: Nancy | March 23, 2004 at 06:28 PM
Unless you're planning to take hundreds of pics...save your money: get to grips with the SLR - and buy a scanner.
Posted by: Simon Waldman | March 25, 2004 at 12:07 PM
I have been using digitals for four years. Before that I had an SLR as well as several point-and-shoot film cameras. I much prefer digital.
You don't really need a humongous amount of megapixels unless you plan to print out 8x10 images. Even a 2 megapixel image will fill a computer screen. If you want pictures of plants and flowers you need to concentrate on getting a camera with a lens that lets you get up close.
You can read lots of camera reviews at http://www.steves-digicams.com/
Posted by: bill | April 02, 2004 at 04:39 AM
I suggest you get a good 3 megapixel digital camera. That's quite enough resolution for posting on the web and printing 8x10's unless you want to do extensive cropping. Camera prices are dropping rapidly so you should be able to buy a 3x zoom camera for less than $200. Also buy a multi format card reader to transfer the photos to your computer. Much faster that way. Pull out the memory card from your camera, insert it into the card reader, your computer sees the drive and downloads the pictures. The SLR is too slow-having to process the film and putting it on a cd disc. Mine is gathering dust somewhere in the back of a closet.
Posted by: Ki | December 22, 2004 at 05:47 PM