[Mccoypottery-talk] OT: ebay auction help

[ACP]

I'm an old 35mm SLR user, so I'm super pickey about cameras.
That is why I was looking at the Olympus C-4000.  It is a real
camera, but still sells for a price I can afford.  It's not pretty
and modern looking, but it has a good feel and in addition
to all the automatic controls, you can override everything and
take your own pics.    The other options were the Minolta S404
or DSC-S85 or the comperable Nikon (can't remember model,
right now).   The Fuji FP 3800 is really cute, small and has the
feel of a real camera, but it's just not "good" enough.

Now, what I'd REALLY like to have is a Minolta 7i or Olympus
E-10 or 20, or the Canon digital EOS, but I can't afford those
cameras yet.  Eventually they will drop in price, but right now,
they are just too much for me. :-)

At 05:47 PM 3/18/03, you wrote:
>A good digital camera and  very reasonably priced is the kodak  with
>the  optional dock  I myself  have a ricoh  300  zoom got in  1998 and
>its still great  refurbished means  it had been  fixed  I wouldn't buy a
>used digital

I agree.  That is why I'm concerned that the camera I bid on was
switched with a refurb one.  :-(

>its best to  watch for sales  best buy  etc. to get one at

The local stores are too high, for the cameras I like.  So, I'm
pretty much going to have to buy online.  :-(   I'd really rather
be able to buy at a local store.

>a good price  and also  it takes time to  learn how to make your
>pictures  look   real good I still have to  edit mine a lot  sometimes
>. You need a  camera that has a good  editing program with it.

I always toss those things away.  I use nice graphics software.
You can pretty much do anything with Photoshop, if you know how.
I know how to do a lot with it, but I'm no expert.  ;-)

>Olympus
>is   good but  expensive  HP is also good and makes an inexpensive
>camera as well . I love Ricoh products  for photograph  but  the Kodak

I didn't bother to look at a Ricoh, but I'll do that.  I know they make
decent SLRs.   I really don't want an HP or a Kodak.  I really am
used to nice cameras and I know I'd never be happy with one of
the HP/Kodaks I've seen so far.

Thanks for the info.
I'll certainly check out a Ricoh.  :-)

acp