i know i'm new here and most people here are 199% better and more experenced than i am but i learned a very good tip when takeing pictures and that is to never use the view finder and if possable allways use the lcd dsplay on your camera. This is beacuse viewfinders show something that usualy much diffrent than what the real picture is

That is unless you have an SLR.

I agree inspiron, with our camera the viewfinder doesn't show the whole picture being taken. Sometimes you'll take a picture with the viewfinder and you'll see stuff on the edges that you don't want.

Yes, but as Caedes said, once you step up to the 35mm SLRs you get TTL viewing (thru-the-lense.) This is a perfect example of "you get what you see." :D

But I don't have the 35mm SLR, just a digital camera. Or am I missing something that I can do to enhance my digital camera?

I don't think so.

Tommy: There's no way to add the TTL ability to a camera that wasn't built with it. It only refers to being able to look through the viewfinder, but the LCD of a digital should show the entire captured image.

I usually have to watch the lcd anyway, as the auto contrast detection on my camera is crap for landscapes. Pointing it too much at the ground washes out the sky, too much at the sky darkens the ground. I usually get the color balance I want by pointing it in some random direction, force focusing on infinity (since it doesn't matter for a landscape), and recompose the shot the way I would have taken it, assuming the camera could have figured out the correct values on it's own. What you get for having an old P&S, I suppose.

What kind of digital camera do you have that would help us, So we can help you. O.K.

the unfortunate downside to that is that using the LCD canes the batteries, but i hear u, use of the lcd is much better, that way u see what u r gonna get. :)


so always have a spare set handy : )

..maybe i dreamed it... but can't you get some sort of SLR digital ones?..no i wasn't dreaming.. google show me the way :D ..... i found these straight away ... Nikon D100 SLR TTL Digital 6.1megapix Camera

Grim: Read my post "New Camera" below...

ahh .. i see the D70 is a popular choice.. well the D100 looks good too... bit too pricey for me.. but in your post money isn't a factor :D

Well I don't want to waste money by buying something with features I don't need, but I want something decent that isn't going to be superseded tomorrow. And I should be in a position to be able to afford something like the D100 when I sell my business in a few months.

Sam anything you buy will be superseded with in a few months that called tecknowlogy.
The d100 is a good Camera but the d70 is as good and about 400 to 600 less.

Yes wait another year and get a 8 MP for the same price hehe

Is it just me or has the speed at which computer processors change slowed down substantially!

its just the computer industry holding back technology to maximise sales potentials or is that me just being paranoid???

By the time you wait for the right price, the right camera will pass you buy.

In my opinion processors have reached their limit as far as pure GHz go. They might be able to hit 4GHz, but I doubt they'll go beyond that. The main problem here is heat. Even 3GHz PC's generate a lot of heat, and unless everyone is willing to go the watercooled way, they aren't going much higher.

The new focus is on creating PC's with more than one processor in the CPU, higher L1 & L2 cache, 64 bit etc. So the speed of increase in processor speed is DEFINITELY slowing down. You won't soon see the GHz of a CPU double again.

It is funny you mention heat because I have two puters one 2.4 and the old 550...this is what heats my office space year round. Just keep the door closed and turn off the register...nice cozy office:-)

ahh well its ok al thoose gigs can kiss my ass when i get a Q-bit computer.. lol.. quantium computers are being worked on technically a bit is either 1 or 0 a q-bit could still posess the states of 1 to 0 but also all the variations between them. i read it in a very interesting article.. the phrase they used was somethign like 'degrees of freedom' :D a 1Qbit computer would have more degrees of freedom than all the current computers in the planet combined.. and a 64Qbit computer would have more degrees of freedom than there are stars in the known universe... i may well be misquoting.. but thats the general idea of what i read.... opps have we deviated a little bit from camera tips?

Yup, we definitely have deviated from topic...!

I have a professor and some TA's working with SiGe technology. Currently they're building very simple processors that run at better than 16GHz, looking at technology that will go toward 80 and 160GHz. By "very simple" I mean you can pretty much only add and subtract, etc, but the idea is to flesh out the technology such that it can be applied to more complex processors in future.

A quote on the technology: "The heart of IBM Blue Logic BiCMOS 5HP technology is an epitaxial-base, in-situ-doped SiGe HBT that is manufactured using conventional 200-mm silicon CMOS production tooling. With performance capabilities in excess of 100 GHz, demonstrated in development devices, this state-of-the-art SiGe technology offers a technology roadmap for the future."