Manstein
03-08-2005, 02:37 AM
My niece was quizzing me about a digital camera to replace her film M2. Pointed her in the direction of a Canon G6 which as with all digis is now slipping below £400 and offers a lot of manual control. I was just in time to prevent her installing the photosuite supplied, Zoombrowser and ventured down into the cellers and found her a copy of Photoshop Elements which had come with a bottom end Epson or HP scanner bought for an office job last year.
It seems if you buy a high end prosumer camera like a G6 or an Olympus 8080 etc you get lumbered with the Zoombrowser suite or the truly appalling Camedia prog with its cartoon interface. But if you spend £50 or so on a throw away scanner they supply an excellent introduction to photo handling in the form of Elements. Strange Logic.
It seems if you buy a high end prosumer camera like a G6 or an Olympus 8080 etc you get lumbered with the Zoombrowser suite or the truly appalling Camedia prog with its cartoon interface. But if you spend £50 or so on a throw away scanner they supply an excellent introduction to photo handling in the form of Elements. Strange Logic.