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August 30, 2007
Because I Like This Photo
Miguel and I play Scrabble a lot and Angie has been itching to get her hands on the tiles. I finally let her, and we picked out tiles with the letters she can recognize on them: A, B, C and D.
What kind of a camera have you got there? I seem to remember it was free and from a dubious source, but megapixels? Optical zoom? Handy dandy macro button? Watcha got?
I've gota a crappy HP Photosmart M407 with 4.1 megapixels and 18x digital zoom. It eats batteries for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and snacks on them as well. I"m constantly recharging them. It takes forever to "charge the flash" often making me miss a picture. I also can't figure out the macro button, because it always tells me it's either too close or too far to focus. What the heck does that mean? And finally, it's been eating the really good action shots lately. We snap it, see it on the screen, but when we go to download it, there's an error.
I guess that's what I get for buying a "hot" camera.
Oh, the joys of technology! Optical zoom is the thing to look for. Digital just makes the pixels bigger, but optical actually gets closer. I've got a 3X optical, 12x digital, 5 mp. Next time, I'll get one with more optical zoom. I like to zoom. Not that I expect to buy a new camera in the next two or three years, but still...
yeah, mine's a 3x optical. I understand how the digital zoom works because I had to program such a thing in one of my grad courses. but really, the refresh rate and the battery life are important to me. I miss so much with this camera.
Well, when you get in the market for a new one, look at the canon powershots. That's what I have. Two of them, actually, seperately researched several months apart. I think you get the most bang for your buck with these cameras. When I get a snazzier model, I'll stick with the canon line. I'm really happy with it.
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What kind of a camera have you got there? I seem to remember it was free and from a dubious source, but megapixels? Optical zoom? Handy dandy macro button? Watcha got?
Still no video over at my place. :-)
I've gota a crappy HP Photosmart M407 with 4.1 megapixels and 18x digital zoom. It eats batteries for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and snacks on them as well. I"m constantly recharging them. It takes forever to "charge the flash" often making me miss a picture. I also can't figure out the macro button, because it always tells me it's either too close or too far to focus. What the heck does that mean? And finally, it's been eating the really good action shots lately. We snap it, see it on the screen, but when we go to download it, there's an error.
I guess that's what I get for buying a "hot" camera.
Oh, the joys of technology! Optical zoom is the thing to look for. Digital just makes the pixels bigger, but optical actually gets closer. I've got a 3X optical, 12x digital, 5 mp. Next time, I'll get one with more optical zoom. I like to zoom. Not that I expect to buy a new camera in the next two or three years, but still...
yeah, mine's a 3x optical. I understand how the digital zoom works because I had to program such a thing in one of my grad courses. but really, the refresh rate and the battery life are important to me. I miss so much with this camera.
Well, when you get in the market for a new one, look at the canon powershots. That's what I have. Two of them, actually, seperately researched several months apart. I think you get the most bang for your buck with these cameras. When I get a snazzier model, I'll stick with the canon line. I'm really happy with it.
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