keith selmes

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<p>If I live to be 80 and can still do my photography, I don't think I'll care what people call me.<br /> I mainly now use just one micro four thirds digital camera and two lenses, but I look at Photo.net for the vintage and film threads.<br /> There's info and news about digital cameras all over the internet, pnet has a more balanced and interesting content.<br /> To put my photography in context, the MFT is used most weeks. My DSLR has only been out once or twice this year, my compact and phone have not been used for photos at all, but my Leica II and MPP 4x5 have each been out 3 or 4 times. Digital is practical, film is fascinating, might be a reasonable summing up.</p> <p>I also don't like the word analog, or analogue, applied to film or alt process photography. I usually think of it as chemical, since mine includes plates as well as film.<br /> In fact, analog cameras are usually electronic, like these<a href="https://www.pelco.com/video-surveillance-camera-security-systems/analog"> https://www.pelco.com/video-surveillance-camera-security-systems/analog</a></p>

<p>My Olympus AF compact was a Superzoom 800 with a 38-80 lens.<br> The Stylus Epic looks similar, but the superzoom takes alkaline batteries, ordinary AAA type.<br> Anyway, I expect these Epic and Superzooms are the type of 35mm camera she wants.<br> Manual here, http://www.olympusamerica.com/files/oima_cckb/sup_800s.pdf<br> There are plenty on Ebay at low prices.</p>

<p>TIFF is the standard surely ? I haven't heard of anything else being introduced.<br> Perhaps it wasn't needed in this case, but I'm unaware of it having gone away.<br> Usually my photos go RAW to TIFF, but as I often have the camera doing raw and jpg, sometimes they go straight from jpg to internet. And I do sometimes use the phone camera that only does jpg.<br> I use jpgs for email and web, and jpg or png for textures. That all essentially means internet use, where small size reduces the load and improves performance, and where loss of quality is acceptable.<br> Scanning is also always to TIFF, although nowadays I sometimes use the camera rather than the scanner.<br> Printing is usually from TIFF if it's available.<br> I didn't think this was unusual.</p>