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mdlbearWent out for my usual walk this morning, and looked at digital cameras on the way home. Fry's had several, which I noted down the details on (having done the same yesterday morning but stupidly left the card in my pocket when I washed my shirt last night). Finally stopped at the Kamera Korner at Bascom and Parkmoor (just a couple of blocks from home), and saw the Casio EX-Z50. It was gadget lust at first sight, and since they only had one in stock, I bought it. Given a choice, I'd rather buy from my neighbors; Kamera Korner is a family-owned business that's been on that corner as long as we've been in the area.
It wasn't quite as abrupt as all that, since I've been looking for a while and had done some comparison shopping on Steve's Digicams earlier in the morning. Compared to the Nikon Coolpix 4800 that was the top contender up to that point it has more pixels (5 vs. 4), a much bigger display (2" vs. 1.5"), and it's about half the thickness and $50 cheaper. The downsides to the Casio are that the USB connection is through a dock (you can't just plug in a cable), it doesn't take standard batteries (just the rechargable pack), and there's no video out. All comparatively minor, and it's the work of a few seconds to pop the SD card.
The camera was $300, and I snagged a 512MB SD card as well. Total damage was a shade under $400. The SD card was interesting: a 64MB card was roughly $30; 128, $50; 256, $60; 512, $80. What that says, when you think about it, is that the price is roughly proportional to the log of the size, which is weird.
Now that I have a new camera (and one that's small enough to carry conveniently in my bag), the plan is to give my old 2.4MP Ricoh to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
super_star_girl. It's perfectly good, and built like a tank. If she takes care of it and gets her grades back up, I'll get her a new one for either Christmas or her birthday.
After a container of yogurt (Greek, with honey -- yummy!) for lunch, theflower_cat and I went out for a drive. Down US 101 to CA Highway 152, West from Gilroy to Watsonville, up Highway 1 to Santa Cruz, and back on Highway 9. Total ~160 miles, 3 hours. On the way home we stopped in at Guitar Showcase and I showed Colleen a couple of pretties. She doesn't usually want to stop there; guess she figured I'd already bought my big item for the weekend, which was true.
Kielbasa and sauerkraut for dinner; yum. I think the girls had PB&J :-P.
It wasn't quite as abrupt as all that, since I've been looking for a while and had done some comparison shopping on Steve's Digicams earlier in the morning. Compared to the Nikon Coolpix 4800 that was the top contender up to that point it has more pixels (5 vs. 4), a much bigger display (2" vs. 1.5"), and it's about half the thickness and $50 cheaper. The downsides to the Casio are that the USB connection is through a dock (you can't just plug in a cable), it doesn't take standard batteries (just the rechargable pack), and there's no video out. All comparatively minor, and it's the work of a few seconds to pop the SD card.
The camera was $300, and I snagged a 512MB SD card as well. Total damage was a shade under $400. The SD card was interesting: a 64MB card was roughly $30; 128, $50; 256, $60; 512, $80. What that says, when you think about it, is that the price is roughly proportional to the log of the size, which is weird.
Now that I have a new camera (and one that's small enough to carry conveniently in my bag), the plan is to give my old 2.4MP Ricoh to
super_star_girl. It's perfectly good, and built like a tank. If she takes care of it and gets her grades back up, I'll get her a new one for either Christmas or her birthday.After a container of yogurt (Greek, with honey -- yummy!) for lunch, the
flower_cat and I went out for a drive. Down US 101 to CA Highway 152, West from Gilroy to Watsonville, up Highway 1 to Santa Cruz, and back on Highway 9. Total ~160 miles, 3 hours. On the way home we stopped in at Guitar Showcase and I showed Colleen a couple of pretties. She doesn't usually want to stop there; guess she figured I'd already bought my big item for the weekend, which was true.Kielbasa and sauerkraut for dinner; yum. I think the girls had PB&J :-P.
