Archive for March 28th, 2005
Monday, March 28th, 2005 | LiveJournal Archives | 19 Comments
I’ve been really absent on LiveJournal lately and for those 2 of you that actually read my journal, I’m sorry. Aside from World of Warcraft being pretty all consuming, and my attention span for anything else being pretty much Nil. I had spring break the week before last and this past week I’ve been completely distracted by Poison Ivy. So lets do a bit of catching up.
As I said, I had spring break two weeks ago. I did very little and I loved it. I got my new camera Tuesday of spring break thanks to a really good man out at CDW-G. Justin, wherever you are, thank you. I got a great deal on a Canon RebelXT which is their brand new, top of the line, 8.0 MP Pro-sumer digital camera. It is a wonderful device and I fell in love with the box before I even opened it. I’ve taken a number of pictures and need to post some here for viewing. I bought Heather this fairly nice photo printer for christmas and I have to say, even under careful scrutiny, I can’t tell that the photos are digital. Not until I pulled out magnifying glass and a flashlight could I see the pixel information start to break down. That’s pretty good in my book.
So I took a bunch of goofy, pointless photos over Spring Break, photos that would be best served taken with my camera phone, but you know, I had the power to do better and I wanted to play with it. I’m still taking my photos on the full auto mode. I’ve never had a camera that was anything but full manual (Pentax K-1000) so I don’t know how to use all these features yet like Aperture Priority and wierd stuff like that. In fact, I’d almost prefer to just set the ISO, Shutter Speed and F-Stop by hand. Though, I have to admit, with my eyesight deteriorating, and the fact that I no longer wear contacts, I really love the auto focus. I’ve noticed that my later photos with the Pentax were often quite soft focus. I determined that came from my looking through the top of my glasses where the prescription wasn’t quite right. What I need is a prescription eyepiece. I hear they make them, but I bet they’re hella-expensive.
So anyway, that’s my new camera. I’m so glad I canceled my order from Amazon and went with CDW-G instead. I wouldn’t even have it yet, if I hadn’t.
Next up, GeoCaching and Poison Ivy.
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