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Jere -- please forward:

Hi all -- I have been following your discussion of digital cameras with
great interest.  About 4 years ago I bought a Fujifilm MX700 as a backup
for my SLR, just so that I would be sure I didn't miss anything important.
That idea lasted about 2 days, since which time I have not dusted off the
old SLR.  I have taken over 150,000 pics with the digital, and upgraded to
the MX 2700, and I wouldn't give up digital for anything.  The ease of
being able to snap off as many pics as I like, and seeing them on the
screen as they write -- I can actually get perfect piccies just from the
sheer volume I am now able to take.  And I find that as digitals, I
actually browse through my photo album more often, and they are easier to
file, being effortlessly copied into however many files they apply to.  And
as if that is not enough of a plus, in the field and in collections, I can
save immense amounts of time by photographing the labels as well as the
specimens, something I would have never done when I had to pay for each
picture.  

As for resolution, I have yet to be told by any journal that my pics are
unacceptable -- the MX2700 shoots at 1800x1200, that's ginormous resolution
when the picture is scrunched down to publication size.  

The best part I love about digital is that I can shoot a pic of a colleague
and two seconds later shoot a pic thru the microscope, no extra lenses, no
attachments, no extra anything, just hold it up to the ocular and click --
still fantastic resolution. Any microscope, anywhere, no worries. The
limitation is the depth of field inherent in microscope photography, not
the camera itself.  

If any of you saw me snapping off piccies at NAPC, you may be interested to
know that the highest cost of those several hundred pics was the 35 cents
it cost to burn them to CD. And the resolution was high enough to make out
a tear in Ellis Yochelson's eye as he accepted his award. 

No, I don't own stock in Fujifilm, I am just one extremely satisfied customer!

Cheers, Lisa-ann Gershwin