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     March 17, 2005
     FROM THE DESK OF DAVID POGUE
     Defending Big Megapixels

I'm looking to buy my first digital camera. I know absolutely nothing
about them. I basically want to take family photos & maybe scenery that
I could enlarge and put on my walls. I'm looking for something under
$300.00. Any recommendations for a beginner?

Thank you all who responded to my post. I did not know there was a 5x5-inch
physical limit to sensors and that there was such a high failure rate during
manufacture.
My dilemma is this. I use 8x10 ASA50 Fujichrome to make 48x72-inch

I have access to a Coolscan V scanner and plan to scan my slides (800
or so) and colour negative film (strips of 6, usually) to archive
them.  Probably will not print many at this time.
Does anyone have experience with this scanner, or similar - could you

I live in SW London, UK and am looking for a digital photography
course.  I would call myself just-above beginner and would like to
learn how to get the most out of my EOS 300D.
Does anyone know of any courses running that would be suitable?

I'm thinking of upgrading my video card (an ancient GeForce 1 DDR)
to a Radeon 9700 Pro.  If anyone out there is running one of these
cards with a CRT, at resolutions of 1280x1024 or 1600x1200, how
do you like the 2D image quality?  Any problems?

Forget for now that the Canon is unfortunately a 4MP and the Panasonic
is a 5MP.  Which camera is a superior camera in any respect and why?
If Canon were to update the S1 to 5MP and make now other changes, which
would be better?

This is gonna be my first digital camera.  My friend has the Kodak 7330
which she likes alot.  It's a 3.1 camera and will probably do what I want.
However, the movie format is MOV which I don't care for.
I also looked at the HP R607.  It's a 4.1 and plays MPEG format.  I like the

Hi! I just subscribed to this group. I am very interested in digital
photography. Can someone recommend a good 'digital photo processing web
site'? Webshots? Ofoto? Which is best? I want to be able to:  1) store
my photos without any loss of picture quality, so I can always download

I was wondering if there are any compact digital camera's around that
have anti-shake. Compact as in Canon point and shoot PowerShot
(http://www.powershot.com) or Casio Exilim
(http://www.exilim.casio.com/) size.

My Canon Digital Rebelwith 18-55 kit lens is giving me problems. More
particularly, the auto focus function hardly ever works. When I
semi-press the shutter release, the green AF light flashes to show it
can¹t focus. The camera makes a short sound as if the lens is going to

I'm on the cusp of buying a D70 with lens.  One site specifically states
it's a Nikon (Nikkor) lens, the other site I'm considering says "Nikon D70
Digital SLR with AF-S DX 18-70 Lens..." -- am I being paranoid, or is there
a chance the lens is not a Nikon lens?

anyone here used such a service for lens from canon ?
thanks

Thanks to all who provided their recommendations for a digital camera I'm
planning to get.  After taking all comments and reading all reviews on the
net I have narrowed down my selections to the following based on features,
price, portability, etc.  Here they are in no particular ...

Can a JPEG 2000 image contain embedded audio ?  Interested in the
possibility of keeping an audio description of individual images
within the image file itself.  Many slideshow progams allow a separate
audio file to be played back with each individual image but this means