your net:// web chase competition

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

Hewlett-Packard

, (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

webchase@herald.co.nz

.

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!

COMPETITION RULES: Limit one entry per person. Competition entry is only by e-mail to webchase@herald.co.nz. Winner(s) will be selected at random from all correct entries received within the time specified and will be notified by telephone. This competition is only open to current New Zealand residents, living within New Zealand. Employees of Wilson and Horton and their agencies are not eligible to enter. Judges' decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. Winners' names and photographs may be used for publicity purposes.

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

Easy-Bake

oven.

2. The

text

and a

picture

of the Treaty of Waitangi.

3. Johannesburg. Parktown is a suburb infested with an insect called the

Parktown Prawn

.

4.

One of several sites

where you can get a list of 'emoticons.'

5.

Madeleine Dring

is the composer of

Song of a Nightclub Proprietress

.