Competition closes 9.00 am, 1 Sept 2000
Every week, the Herald Online gives you the chance to win a great prize.
This week, we focus on digital pictures, as we give away a C200 digital camera from Hewlett Packard.
This 1-megapixel camera features a 2x digital zoom and stores up to 80 pictures for viewing on your TV or loading to your PC.
Features:
* 8 MB compact flash card
* Extra-long NTSC/PAL video cable
* Auto flash with option for flash fill and red eye reduction
* 1 year warranty
The C200 digital camera sells for approximately $849 including GST. For more information contact
, (free phone 0800 733 547).
How to enter:
Correctly answer the following questions (all answers can be found by searching the web and the Herald Online story archive):
1. What is a pixel?
2. Give an example of a popular digital image file format that utilises lossy compression.
3. Which award-winning Herald photographer snapped the picture that accompanies the Herald Online story
Kiwi Olympians: Pero Cameron
?
Send your answers to
.
Entries must be received by 9.00 am, Friday 1 September, 2000.
The winner will be announced next Tuesday in the New Zealand Herald and Herald Online.
Good luck, and thanks for entering!
Congratulations to last week's winner
, Walt Rotheram, who won a ScanJet 3400C scanner from Hewlett-Packard by correctly answering our web-searching questions.
Last week's answers
(with
possible
URLs):
1. Hasbro makes the
oven.
2. The
and a
of the Treaty of Waitangi.
3. Johannesburg. Parktown is a suburb infested with an insect called the
.
4.
where you can get a list of 'emoticons.'
5.
is the composer of
Song of a Nightclub Proprietress
.
New York Times: Sam Altman and his family have vehemently denied the claims.