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Bought a digital camera, how did I do?

woodsrunnerwoodsrunner Member Posts: 5,378 ✭✭
edited September 2002 in General Discussion
I have a friend that does alot of online auctions. A couple months ago she dropped her camera and sent it out to be fixed. Because she needed the camera she also bought a new one. The old one came back from repair and I purchased it from her. Sony mavica MVC-FD51. I gave her $175.00 for the camera 2 batteries and a battery charger. Did I get a deal or could I have done better. They had to put a new door on it where the batteries go. the thing looks like new and works great. She also said she'd give my money back if anything went wrong in the next 30 days.

Woods
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  • njretcopnjretcop Member Posts: 7,975
    edited November -1
    Woodsey, can you say steal? LOL!

    Charlie

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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
    edited November -1
    My Sony uses a 3.5" diskette as medium.

    It makes the camera bulkier than the ones that use the stick, but it is very handy to transfer images.

    By the way, if you are not happy with your purchase, I will give you your money back for it.

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  • BoomerangBoomerang Member Posts: 4,513
    edited November -1
    You did good. FYI, only use standard quality when taking your pictures for this site. If you use the hq or shq settings they turn out to be really big. This inturns really scews the listing. Been there, done it.

    Boomer

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  • snarlgardsnarlgard Member Posts: 1,310 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    hey nunn will give you back your money ......I will give you a $25 profit


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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I got a friend a deal on a Mavica of the approximate lineage of your 51 and he got a deal at $450. So you did fine. If you can, use a direct download via a USB cable or IEEE cable and you'll find it very convenient to re-use the same media over and over. Since the typical memory stick holds AT LEAST 4 times the pictures of a single diskette, you can shoot an awful lot of auction pictures without changing media.

    I've used a Mavica quite a bit and I find them easy to use, accurate, able to shoot super close-ups of tiny items (change to Macro mode by pressing theMacro button -- a little flower comes up on your digital screen to show you are in close-up mode) and with plenty of quality for online work. They also work very well in room light, though you can get better, brighter color saturation by shining an extra lamp on the subject when you shoot your items.

    As they said, you can use standard resolution for online picture taking, which is probably 640x480, plenty of pixels for a computer screen shot. In fact, you can reduce them some if you want, in your photo software, before saving them as .jpg for extra reduction in file size. Your hi-res setting is, I believe about a Megapixel, which amounts to 1024 x somethingorother pixels.

    Since the camera will number the photos the same each time you fill the media, from 1 to 40 or whatever, you'll want to transfer your pictures to your PC in separate folders (set 1, set 2, or something) to keep track of each group. You will probably rename at least some of your pictures so they are easier to keep track of as you work with them.

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