Nikon doesn't have the resolution that kodak does. for the same money, and the same aquire problem, though not as bad as the fine pix.
I think that the success of the Nikons is there name,
and all of the die hard Nikon buyers/owners
will blindly buy assuming that it's the best just by name.
The fine pix is fairly easy to handle, The Kodak is better because it's really a nikon with a kodak digital butt stuck on it.
Fine pix is some kind of hybrid that accepts nikon lens'
Do Not buy anything that doesn't have a firewire connection. These enable remote camera handling,
"when my LCD bit the dust, I was able to continue working", USB just can't do that.
The down loading problem....
A card is a card.
Most likely you will be popping your card into a reader for downloading while you keep shooting whith your second card*
*"always have at least two"
I wouldn't recommend a card over 350 megs for download speed. Few things suck more than a model ready to do nasty when you have to stop for a "technical thing"
The real problem with fine pix aproach is that
the images are just thrown into a direcry as either jpegs or tiffs, and you have to open every damned one of then to see what they are.
With the Kodak, they provide a photoshop plug in to aquire the images in a contact sheet format that you can then choose just the images that are worth opening.
Of course "al of mine are worth opening"
Yah right.
My friend has a 1 gig micro drive.
I made the mistake of filling it.
Very nice during the shoot...
2 hours to download it via usb.
And Yes my systems are fast...
And Mac.
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