I sent my girls down to Brazil this past summer for about 3 weeks. They were touring with the regional Youth Symphony here. We debated on what direction to go - film or digital and finally decided that low resolution digital would be fine. I made sure to get them cameras that would take AA's and sent them with about 8 rechargeables each and charger. One camera (Canon A10) is a 1.3MP and the other (Optio 230) is 2MP A couple of 256MB CF cards was sufficient to store about 800 shots at full resolution/medium compression (recommended setting). They never had to deal with film (airport checks, etc), just took shots as they wanted, able to review at times and not worry too much about wasting shots.
The trip was successful and they were happy with both the use of the cameras and the resulting pictures. Erin is going to submit one of them to the upcoming PUG from the Optio 230. -- Best regards, Bruce Saturday, December 6, 2003, 5:24:10 PM, you wrote: HC> what happens when they fill the card? if they take only one, it has to be HC> very large, and then what happens if something happens to the camera? unless HC> they are part of an organized expedition, take a good P&S film camera. HC> Herb... HC> ----- Original Message ----- HC> From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HC> To: "PDML" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HC> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 7:43 PM HC> Subject: Vacation snaps with an Optio? >> Friends of a friend are off on vacation soon. They want a small, >> compact, pocketable digicam for their trip. I was thinking that one of >> the Optio cameras might work for them. Will it? Here is their situation >> and the requirements: >> >> They are going on a six month trip to India, >> Tibet, etc. and they want "an inexpensive >> digital camera for the trip".
