Digicam peripherals?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 12:35:33AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   I'm looking for a place to buy a 1-gig SD card (doesn't anybody have
> them?) and also a USB extension cable or an SD card-reader.  And my
> rant-of-the-day today is about the stupid USB extension cables that are
> *DAMN* bright blue, and have an extremely annoying flicker whenever
> transmitting data.  The idiot who thought that up should be shot.

I bought a 1GB SD card for $100 (after some mail in rebate) a few months
ago (maybe 6 months) at staples.  They had plenty (but you had to ask
for it at the counter).

>   The reason I want the SD card is that I just got myself a Panasonic
> FZ5 (5 megapixel) digicam.  There are some tradeoffs.  There is no
> "manual focus" per se.  But you can auto-focus on an object and lock the
> focus to that length.  On the plus side, its uncompressed format is
> tiff, not some proprietary "raw" format that can only be accessed by a
> proprietary Windows program.

I never was a fan of tiff myself.  Too many variants and extensions.  It
is however better supported than something with no support.  Using
some open raw format would be even better, as www.openraw.org is trying
to get going (or at least they want camera makers to openly document
their raw formats).

Lennart Sorensen
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