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Non-Tech : The New Iomega '2000' Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gottfried who wrote (2163)	8/5/1999 12:34:00 PM
From: s. bateh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5023

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To: Gottfried who wrote (2163)	8/6/1999 10:35:00 PM
From: eric larson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5023

A backpacking "field test" for Clik! -- x31.deja.com[ST_rn=md]/getdoc.xp?AN=507707400 [bold highlights mine] Subject: Clik!/950/Backpacking (kinda' long) Date: 1999/08/01 Author: Angela In case anyone's interested, I thought I'd relate my first experiences with digital "photo-ing"....... 'Til now, I've been using an SLR while waiting for digital cameras to offer a little nicer image quality in combination with affordability. I guess I could probably wait forever while they keep improving these things, so I finally decided to get one. I should have looked for a newsgroup like this before buying, but didn't think of it. I was looking at the C2000Z and the CP950. After reading the spec sheets, I decided on the 950. And a Clik! And a dozen Clik! disks. Manuals on CD are annoying, so when the 950 arrived, I just tinkered around with it. I didn't think to try to photograph an ant's posterior, but I did try it out on a flower on my porch. Nice! It even captured the furry stuff on the petals. After dropping the lens cap a half dozen times, I braided up a little cord and tied it to the camera strap. The next day I bundled the whole mess up along with two sets of rechargeable NIMH batteries (I read that someone else here uses 1500 milliamp; mine are only 1200 milliamp.) I also tossed in a set of rechargeable NiCad's. (The spec sheet at the web site listed NiCad's; I figured I'd try 'em out if necessary.) (Also, I read here about "conditioning" batteries. I didn't do that; I just charged 'em up Thursday night.) We got to our camp Friday night. It was nearing dusk, but I still puttered around taking pictures of everything and anything. The next morning it was raining [insert unladylike words here.] I tucked the camera in a ziplock bag and placed it in the top of my pack. The Clik! disks and drive went into a nylon stuff sack in the cargo pocket of my pants. The Clik! drive is lightweight. And I don't know how to explain this, but my initial impression was "cheap." ....the way the reader fits into the main unit. ....the way it feels as you plug a disk into the drive. ....it just has a feel to it that it's not well-made. BUT, it bounced around in that cargo pocket for two days; it got rained on. The trail was steep, wet, and kinda' nasty. At one point, I slipped and fell/slid from a downed log I was climbing over and squashed the Clik! drive and all it's disks underneath me. I don't know how it'll hold up in the long run, but it still works fine, and it works fairly well if you need lightweight storage for short trips. I only had the 8Meg card which ships with the camera. With the camera hanging off my neck (in between rain/drizzle sessions) I'd slip out the memory card and pop it in the drive, stick in a Clik! disk and a few moments later, reverse the process. Although it really wasn't that onerous, a larger memory card is definitely in order. The first set of NIMH batteries filled up one-and-a-half-ish Clik! disks.But around then, I'd noticed that the camera LCD is useless in bright light and turned it off. So the second set of NIMH batteries pretty much filled up two-and-a-half Clik! disks and still appeared to be going o.k. I didn't try out the NiCad batteries, because by then, the Clik! drive battery started fading. So I guess I'll add a second Clik! battery to the shopping list. I took some crummy pictures, and I took some pictures that look fairly decent. I was more careful with the camera and didn't subject it to as much weather as the drive. The camera locked up once. I was playing around with the image quality settings and tried to set it to a setting for which I didn't have enough memory on the card, since there were already a couple pictures on the card. The "off" button doesn't work when it's locked up. (Incidentally, checking the firmware version which I read about here, causes the camera to lock up.) Anyway, overall, I really like this camera. I could get a little giddy and rave over the differences between the 950 and the old SLR, but I'll spare you all.