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Digital CameraI spent a lot of years taking pictures with normal, analog cameras (mostly Minolta SLR). But as I am a littlebit lazy (as all engineers, so they have a reason to invent something new ;)), it took mostly very long to develop the films. I work a lot with computers and so I finally bought a digital still camera. On the one hand I wanted it to be small enough to take it all the time with me, on the other hand I wanted the features to be able to work more creatively than with a point and shoot model. My requirements:
The Solution (10/2000): Canon Powershot G1 (Sorry, only in german at the moment). It has even more features than I expected to get! A very good review (in german and english) can be found at http://www.digitalkamera.de (09/2001). In January 2001 I decided to get a underwater housing for my camera and at the german "Boot" exhibition I asked all major manufacturers for it. UK-Germany was the only company who took the challenge and about three months later I got a great custom built housing for my G1. You can see more of it at this page. The G1 is a very good, highly recommended camera, but is has some disadvantages: esp. exposure metering and autofocus need some improvements. Fortunately Canon developed the Powershot G2 (review at Digital Photography Review) and it deals with this problems. Additionally is has a 4 MegaPixel CCD and a faster DSP. I hope it will fit in my underwater housing! (09/2001) Anyway my next camera (about 2003?) will be a nice, small, highly integrated digital video and still camera with integrated sound and perhaps even with UMTS internet access! Changes: Thomas Hopfner, 2001-09-17: Created page |