Canon PowerShot S200 ELPH

[TC]

Sometimes I think we appraisers complicate things. Mary is right, the Mavica is the quick and easy way to go. Although I now use the memory stick, I still carry a few disks in the car as a backup. And since my memory and eyesight is not what it used to be, I have the address of the subject printed in 48 block on front of the file folder, I take a picture of that before I shoot the subject. And since it has the date imprint, I never have to remember when I was there.

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tc

 

[Leon Stewart]

If your Polaroid 700 is anything like my Polaroid 1100--buy a new camera! My Polaroid was terrible, it still works but the photos are lousy, the program to process the images was lousy and I was very dissatisfied with the whole thing. Used it less than a year, so bought the Kodak 215, it lasted six months then had to be sent back to the factory, that problem was fixed and a new problem showed up. So that is when I bought the Elph. Don't know what Elph stands for but it is a line of models for Cannon, I think there are 35mm Elph cameras also. Somebody at Cannon got "cute" and decided to use those initials for the very small cameras, which would be pronounced like elf.

Jo Ann:

I researched that S200 on the Net last night after I checked it out at Best Buy (they had it priced at $ 299 also, and it's priced all over the Net for the same price). Jo Ann I don't want to bust your bubble, but most of the users of the S200 that posted their comments on computers.com and dpreview.com had mostly one complaint, Poor Picture quality. But when I read reviews from owners or purchasers of equipment or devises I just read the negative comments. That way you will know the comment is not from a sales agent or a manufacturer's Rep of someone that has an interest in the product.

leon

 

[Leon Stewart]

After reading all these posts, I'm loving my camera more and more. Sony Mavica - pop in a disk, take the subject & comp photos, pop out the disk & put it in the file. No guessing, no deleting photos. Software stores the pics, but we have the disk in the file for any future needs. Nothing could be easier! :lol:

Mary:

You still didn't indicate how your images are identified on the disk. When you go back to check the disk, how do you know what house is what address. It appears to me that just having the photo's on the disk is meaningless unless they can be identified with some type of label, especially if you are inventoring photo's. I don't store photo's, every assignment for me is a new and different assignment, and I have rarely use photo's or comps for two or three different appraisals. Plus the fact that I consider a report inaccurate if your Report is "As of" a certain date and you are using photo's that are weeks or months old. Appraisers who do that are not inspecting these comps. I know from personal experience where a house was sold one week, occupied and torn down a week or two later. Since it's imperative that you inspect your comps for each Report, why is taking a photo that much of a problem? As someone said on this Thread, it's digital now-a-days, and there is no significant cost involved.

leon