Is there a digital camera priced under $1,000 that shows what shutter speed and aperature it is using to take a picture? I would like to use a digital camera to test lighting of my studio pictures and would need this information to transfer to my film camera.

I have searched the specs for Kodak 260 265 and Olympus 2000z and do not seem to see this information.

-- Donna Moran (dmoran97@aol.com), June 13, 1999

Answers

I may be wrong on this, and invite comment if I am. I think that unless you are doing the entire assingment digitally, that you would get a much better idea for how things are going to look in the photograph by using a photographic material, namely Polaroid in any of the many formats and emulsion types available for the pack and 4 x 5 formats. Comparing a digital image to a photographic one is still in the apples -and-oranges stage as far as I know, unless you are prepared to spend upwards of $25,000. The Polaroid approach is a fairly standard and accepted way of doing what you describe.

-- tony brent (ajbrent@mich.com), June 13, 1999.

At the FlashPoint Digita products page they have a free script called Details V2 that has what you need and more. The Kodak D65 uses digita.

http://www.flashpoint.com/products/

-- Diane Savereide (dsavereide@mediaone.net), June 20, 1999.