So after some serious evaluation, we decided that our Olympus Camera was not good enough to capture the splendor and joy of Eleanor Hae In Chon. You know when you say the first middle and last name, its important.
So after continuously envying my sister's sony cybershot. I decided to get one.
I decided on the Sony DSCW100. Why?
1. I like to get things fast. When you see the link for get it from J&R music world(On amazon you can actually choose which retailer you can buy certain items from), this option is really the fastest. Usually next day delivery. Within 5 hours of NYC. I was going to go to bestbuy and get it. I would have had it that night sure, but with tax and a bad price... i decided to be patient. Somewhat. If you live in NYC dont get it from J&R you pay tax, choose someone else outside of NY.
2. Currently there is a deal from J&R also. Rebate Link . For me i was kind of against sony because their memory sticks were always more expensive per MB than any other place. WELL. NOT ANYMORE . NOT right now until August 31st.
If you purchase the Sandisk Memory stick Pro DUO again, buy from J&R music world, the initial cost is 39.99. the Rebates add up to another $15.00 off. Who ever heard of 25 buckaroos kiddies for 1 GB of memory space? Thats a lot of pictures.
Just for reference at bestbuy that same memory stick is 60 bucks. So i got 2 of em. Why? One to leave in the camera with Sora, and one to take with me when i go out, and possibly stop by ritz camera or target.
I am going thru the process of building text links and PDF links for you my friends. No longer will you have photos like this
Why would you want the birds in focus and our little cutie red cheeked sleeping baby not in focus? Like the NS5 in I robot, they could not decide the greater good. (ok, that was a stretch)Why have the carpet captured in fine detail? But my babies face all blurry?
When you should have this?
The picture is clear enough to see what size my wife buys at motherhood maternity... Ok ok
Some of the bad pictures can be blamed on user error. But for the most part humans are not going to blame ourselves, when we know the machines should be fixing our mistakes. haha. We have vehicle stability control, so when you are gunning your SUV in the snow doing donuts the car will save you. Or if you are trying to test the G-forces on your Dodge Caravan, the car will shift power from the wheels that slip to the wheels that grip. We have spell check! We should have smarter digicams that smooth out our mistakes.
I highly recommend a Canon SD700 (Eleanor's aunt so young has this camera, She is very happy with it as well. I have yet to see any pictures from this camera, but it is sleek and nice) or Sony DSCW- Series.
1. Any of the W series: Cybershot DSCW30 $220 bucks
Cybershot DSCW50 - $250.00 bucks
Cybershot DSCW70 - $270 bucks (at J&R)
Cybershot DSCW100 - $320 bucks
The cameras vary in size of TFT screen and megapixels. We went with 8 megapixels because we want to have massive blowup posters of eleanor in the house someday. Also if you want to make clear 4x6 cropped shots from a wider shot 8 megapixels should do the trick.
Almost all of these cameras have same shooting menus and options. they have a learning mode with gives you more information. As you learn the functions of the camera you can turn them off. Low light shots are much better and not blurry.
This shot taken in dark room with no flash.
Its pretty good. To be able to snap a shot of your almost 6 week old baby smiling like that is priceless.i hear so many parents say, i should have taken more pictures. Or my friends saying when i was growing up, I dont have many pictures. No more regrets and no more shoulda coulda woulda. Let's leave that to our philadelphia sports teams who continue to demoralize and steal the fans money by underperforming each year. I was not really old enough to remember the glory years of the early 80's. I can only imagine. The eagles loss to the patriots still lingers...
I am actually taking a "wall of jericho" approach this year. I walk around the novacare complex where the eagles practice and work out each day. Mainly prayer walking for serious stuff like my mom, my wife, my child, world hunger etc. But near the end i toss up a little prayer for the E-A-G-L-E-S.
ok back to my digicam dealio.
I am not an expert. but this guy is http://www.steves-digicams.com/. He reviews every new camera. I prefer his reviews to Cnet or epinions.
The next step is prosumer Digital SLR. But thats too bulky for me.
Also i realized, the pictures in the past couple days have been a little repetitious. So, I have to make a plan. today mommy and baby shots. Tomorrow, grandpa and baby shots. etc etc.
If not its all gonna look the same.
Ok friends, you are my friends right? you come and read about whats going on with my baby. And what whacko things i think about in terms of first time parenthood. Some of my "friends" have given great insights into how we can raise eleanor. thank you for that.
Digicams a great tool to capture pictures of life. but not the magic pill by any means. you need a Mini DV cam too. More on that later.
Sam
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