#32: New digital camera buyer’s guide

Ed Krimen, CEO of Photobird, just wrote me and told me about Photobird’s new Digital Camera Buyer’s Guide. I like how you can look up a camera, like the Nikon Coolpix S1 I bought Maryam, see reviews from other sites on the Internet (including Amazon and Steve’s Digicams). Has anyone here used their photo sharing service? I just asked him how it compares to our favorite Flickr.

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  3. dpreview.com is THE mecca for camera reviews.

    personally i have a dinky little canon point and shoot, i need to get a camera with image stablization, NTT Docomo has already started selling camer phones with image stablizationand built in flash, exciting times we are living in indeed.

  4. dpreview.com is THE mecca for camera reviews.

    personally i have a dinky little canon point and shoot, i need to get a camera with image stablization, NTT Docomo has already started selling camer phones with image stablizationand built in flash, exciting times we are living in indeed.

  5. Thanks Robert!

    Some Photobird comparisons to Flickr:

    - The Photobird design is much cleaner, focusing on displaying photos as large as possible.
    - No file size limits. Upload a 50MB photo if you want.
    - Choose different display sizes for your photos (1280 pixels wide, 1024, 800, 640, 320), all of the way up to the original uploaded size. Different albums can have different size photos.
    - Choose to comment, comment and rate, or turn off comments. Each album can be different.
    - Simple web links, copied directly from the address bar in your web browser:
    Album link: http://www.photobird.com/ekrimen/Europe/
    Photo link: http://www.photobird.com/ekrimen/Europe/swan
    Photo link by itself: http://www.photobird.com/ekrimen/Europe/swan.jpg
    (simply added .jpg to the end)
    - We use an album metaphor, with an unlimited number of nested albums. (Personally, I don’t understand Flickr’s “photostream” structure/organization/metaphor.) You can see my album at http://www.photobird.com/ekrimen/ .
    - You can hide and password protect albums from public view.
    - We support JPG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, and PNG, with more file formats coming.
    - Photobird is easier to use for novices, especially when making albums and adding photos.
    - Monthly and yearly subscriptions available.
    - Fast and easy on your web browser
    - Friendly and helpful customer service
    - Family-owned and operated business

    We’re currently hiring an additional developer and will have more exciting, new features early next year. I’ll keep you posted!

    Thanks!

    — Ed

  6. Thanks Robert!

    Some Photobird comparisons to Flickr:

    - The Photobird design is much cleaner, focusing on displaying photos as large as possible.
    - No file size limits. Upload a 50MB photo if you want.
    - Choose different display sizes for your photos (1280 pixels wide, 1024, 800, 640, 320), all of the way up to the original uploaded size. Different albums can have different size photos.
    - Choose to comment, comment and rate, or turn off comments. Each album can be different.
    - Simple web links, copied directly from the address bar in your web browser:
    Album link: http://www.photobird.com/ekrimen/Europe/
    Photo link: http://www.photobird.com/ekrimen/Europe/swan
    Photo link by itself: http://www.photobird.com/ekrimen/Europe/swan.jpg
    (simply added .jpg to the end)
    - We use an album metaphor, with an unlimited number of nested albums. (Personally, I don’t understand Flickr’s “photostream” structure/organization/metaphor.) You can see my album at http://www.photobird.com/ekrimen/ .
    - You can hide and password protect albums from public view.
    - We support JPG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, and PNG, with more file formats coming.
    - Photobird is easier to use for novices, especially when making albums and adding photos.
    - Monthly and yearly subscriptions available.
    - Fast and easy on your web browser
    - Friendly and helpful customer service
    - Family-owned and operated business

    We’re currently hiring an additional developer and will have more exciting, new features early next year. I’ll keep you posted!

    Thanks!

    — Ed

  11. Stefan, I agree that dpreview.com is very good for digicam reviews. But I also recommend http://imaging-resource.com if you want to take a more technical deep dive into any particular camera. The founder of the site, Dave Etchells, is a very competent researcher I’ve worked with in the past. (He did some excellent technical research papers for the Seybold Report back in the heyday of the digital imagesetter [the early 90s for you young’uns].)

  12. Stefan, I agree that dpreview.com is very good for digicam reviews. But I also recommend http://imaging-resource.com if you want to take a more technical deep dive into any particular camera. The founder of the site, Dave Etchells, is a very competent researcher I’ve worked with in the past. (He did some excellent technical research papers for the Seybold Report back in the heyday of the digital imagesetter [the early 90s for you young’uns].)