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From: "Gilbert Blankenship" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Digital Cameras & Genealogy
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 17:12:03 -0500
In-Reply-To: <6fi45tgmc3o7gt5tmdaqhi2qmef88v24c8@4ax.com>


Ah, yes the battery issue - well sorry I forgot to mention that. However,
you should also consider the following if you are going to go digital.
There is a company that makes a battery with a belt clip. There is a cable
that attaches to the Camera power input and the battery output that suffices
for about a hundred pictures before recharging (on my camera anyways). I
bought my 'belt' battery at the local CompUSA for about $40 including
battery pack, recharge and camera cable. The batter pack and charger are
sold together, while the camera cable is sold separately so that one pack
can work with multiple cameras. But, this is a very good point - a good
digital cameras will go through batteries like no-bodies business so invest
in rechargeable or a battery pack.

Also, remember that digitals come in a couple formats
Some store right on a floppy - nice, if you want to carry a couple floppies
around with you
Some store on Compact Flash
Some store on Memory Sticks

The three are not interchangeable. My camera uses a compact flash and I
purchased a Click drive to transfer images from the 'digital film' to a
miniature disk (like a cd but much smaller) that holds about 40mb of data.
This is a large number of images.

All said and done it gets pretty expensive for someone who will just shoot a
couple of pictures. But - if you are going to shot allot digital is the way
to go - that was my point.

As far as the cemetery goes - I would like to print a cemetery report with
the headstone photos but have been unsuccessful. My primary interest is
HTML output. However each time I try I get junk. Either an ancestor or
descendants report with the primary persons image.

Has anyone had (or tried) any success in producing an HTML report, wherein a
specific event is selected (burial) filtered by location (cemetery name)
which includes the image for the event?

Gil

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-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Surratt [mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 4:44 PM
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Subject: Re: [TMG] Digital Cameras & Genealogy


On Mon, 01 Jan 2001 19:14:18 -0500, Teresa wrote:

>Thank you so much. It sounds like you are describing exactly what I will
need. To spend most of my money on batteries. <G> [clipped]


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