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Re: A digital camera designed for bloggers? (Scripting News)

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Re: A digital camera designed for bloggers? (Scripting News)

kevinmarks — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:51:38 -0000

You can set the eyefi up for multiple access points, but you need to plug it into the computer for each one. Less than ideal, but uploading loads of pix on random wifi access points is probably not very polite.

For the camera, I recommend the Canon Powershot S3 IS, which is a bit over your budget (it's $285) but has a great zoom, excellent SLR-like manual modes, and will shoot 640x480x30fps video with 44. kHz stereo audio too. With an eye-fi, it's good for shot uploading, with an 8zGB card (about $40 these days) you can have an hour of broadcast edit quality video.

http://www.amazon.com/Canon...

Re: A digital camera designed for bloggers? (Scripting News)

Stefan Constantinescu — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:48:48 -0000

Why not just get a better camera phone? Think about it, Scoble uses a Nokia N95 to do all of his QiK streaming and that has a 5 megapixel camera. Jeff Jarvis used a Nokia N82 to cover the World Economic Forum: http://www.beet.tv/2008/02/...

That has a 5 meagpixel camera with xenon flash, wifi and the ability to upload straight to Flickr or whatever image service you like to use. It's the device I currently use day in and day out.

Disclosure: I work for Nokia's S60 Division, S60 being the OS that powers devices like the Nokia N95 and N82.

Re: A digital camera designed for bloggers? (Scripting News)

Guest — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:31:52 -0000

@Kris Samsung has at least one model -- the G810 I think -- with those features (qwerty, 5 mpx, email, 3g, + wifi). As for the N95, while I don't blog with it, I regularly snap pictures and upload them to flickr with it using the send-to-web feature, with one hand. (The only time I miss not having a qwerty keyboard is typing in URLs.)

Re: A digital camera designed for bloggers? (Scripting News)

Brian D. Johnson — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:22:18 -0000

I like the Eye-Fi card. Take a picture, relax, camera talks to computer, computer talks to flickr (or any of the other popular services). Works great.

Re: A digital camera designed for bloggers? (Scripting News)

dave — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:21:01 -0000

I'm perfectly happy with the email approach. It's two clicks and type the title and click Send. Couldn't be much easier, and I don't want to jailbreak my phone.

Re: A digital camera designed for bloggers? (Scripting News)

Daniel H — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:47:34 -0000

Give iFlickr a try on the iphone (u get it in the "installer" after jailbreak) it pushes your pics directly to flickr no need to email.

Re: A digital camera designed for bloggers? (Scripting News)

Jennifer Eubanks — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:38:31 -0000

The Nokia N95-3 has all of the things on your wishlist. I love mine!

Re: A digital camera designed for bloggers? (Scripting News)

Kris Smith — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:23:16 -0000

Since I gave up my iPhone last November I have been live photo blogging from my Treo700p. The camera sux - http://tinyurl.com/37bedf (guess which one wasn't taken with the treo but uploaded immediately from the sd card).

The N95 is not a solution for this, nor is the SE K850i. With the N95 you can buy a bluetooth keyboard for an extra $120 to get qwerty but good luck snapping a shot and sending that quickly with one hand or sending the message pseudo discretely.

The perfect device would be a phone that has a 5mp+ camera with flash, full qwerty keypad, email and evdo, wimax etc. Motorola could resurrect itself with a phone like this.

Re: A digital camera designed for bloggers? (Scripting News)

_Mark_ — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:10:12 -0000

The eye.fi doesn't actually help, unless you take all your pictures near the same access point. (It's amazing that the little 16-bit RISC memory controller chip even has enough CPU to do that :-)

Concord (a polaroid brand, I think?) made a bluetooth camera in their EyeQ line a few years back, but I don't know if they ever got past 3mp and no optical zoom (ie. "no better than a phonecam".) Doesn't look like they still make them, either.

Re: A digital camera designed for bloggers? (Scripting News)

Guest — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:45:49 -0000

The Nokia N82 actually has a 5 megapixel camera, not 3, plus gps and automatic geotagging.

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Joe Lazarus — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:15:30 -0000

I like the Eye-Fi concept for higher quality shots from a real camera. For mobile / convenience pics, I'm ok with the iPhone, but I hope someone builds an iPhone app that makes submitting to Flickr a little better including automated geo-tagging using the iPhone's location feature. The ideal camera would include wifi, edge, and gps.

Re: A digital camera designed for bloggers? (Scripting News)

Guest — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:02:30 -0000

I paid $499 at tigerdirect for an N95-3.

Re: A digital camera designed for bloggers? (Scripting News)

Guest — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:42:05 -0000

I'm in Canada & don't know what kinds of plans might be available in the US. (Do you have the N95 with North American 3G? Could you just use your iPhone SIM & plan?) Data plans here are outrageously expensive, so typically I'll just use Wifi to upload to Flickr.

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ekivemark — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:03:31 -0000

Dave, I have been thinking the same and wondering if I could simply pull the sim from my iPhone and put it in the Nokia to do the upoading....

If that works there are some other more devious options that might work. However I need to sit down and work those out.

Re: A digital camera designed for bloggers? (Scripting News)

ekivemark — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:01:29 -0000

Dave,

I agree with others - the Nokia N95 is probably what you want - but it fails on the $250 at Amazon hurdle.

While the N95 8Gb is the top of the line an older N95 might suffice at around $695. You can probably shop around and cut about $100 off that price. Another alternative is to step down from 5 megapixels to around 3 megapixels and go with a $400 Nokia N82

Re: A digital camera designed for bloggers? (Scripting News)

dave — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:55:45 -0000

Interesting. I was thinking of that approach, since I have an N95, given to me by Nokia.

I don't have a service plan for it though. Any recommendations on the cheapest service plan suitable for picture-taking to Flickr only (ie not planning on using it as a phone, just as a digital camera).

Re: A digital camera designed for bloggers? (Scripting News)

Guest — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:48:25 -0000

I think the Nokia N95-3 & -4 do a pretty decent job of this (sending to Flickr and similar sites) when the picture quality is set to medium or high. Not Nikon quality, but certainly a much better camera than the iPhone.

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James King — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:26:23 -0000

I read about eye-fi and it is probably a great work around, but it is incredibly limited. As far as I can tell you are restricted to the one wifi network you set it up for. That is fine, but I want to upload from where ever I am. I also don't want another computer in the middle. Why can't I just send it off to flickr (or some other photo site) directly since I am already connected to the network.

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Kim — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:22:01 -0000

I thought I had found a camera that would do what you are describing when I bought the Nikon Coolpix S51C. The description that Nikon gives is very misleading. It will only upload pics to Nikon's myPictureTown website. When you use the e-mail feature it generates an html e-mail instead of just e-mailing the picture, which keeps you from e-mailing it to Flickr. Just thought I'd warn you.

Re: A digital camera designed for bloggers? (Scripting News)

dave — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:17:54 -0000

Hey ever-buddeeee...

Looks like Nikon has a bunch of wifi-capable cameras, some of which are well under the $250 pricepoint in the spec.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref...

Whatcha thing?

Re: A digital camera designed for bloggers? (Scripting News)

Michel Vuijlsteke — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:13:17 -0000

My N95 has a "send to Flickr" built-in.

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Pi — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:08:33 -0000

again, eye-fi

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Patrizio — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:07:59 -0000

Are you sure you want this kind of quality camera? IMHO the majority of 'quick pics' can suffice with a low quality cam perhaps improved with some processing power (http://graphics.stanford.ed.... And the Canon/Nikon/Leica left to the people who appreciate 'slow photography'.

Re: A digital camera designed for bloggers? (Scripting News)

Steve Rubel — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:04:53 -0000

Dave, have you seen this? It's related - http://twitpic.com/