I took some pictures around the office with my new camera:
Adam
Adam – Huh
Carlos – Slinkyvision
Developer Posse (From left: Carlos, Mario, and Omar)
Office – MagnetHead
Office – View 1
Office – View 2
Office – View 3
Office – View 4
Office – View 5
Office – View 6
What kind of camera did you get? I’ve been using the HP PhotoSmart that came with my Mac, and am unhappy with the quality (hey, it’s a freebie). In the market now for a good deal on a good camera.
I bought this camera off of
It is a Kodak DC-220…. They take images at 1154×864 or 640×480, you can play with exposure times, flash settings, etc, and there is also a scripting language so you can write programs for the camera to automate things like bracketing, flash control, etc.
I haven’t fully tuned it yet, I think I need to play with the white balance to get it right… I am very happy with the camera, I actually helped Chris pick it out when she first got it, so I knew what I was getting into… That said, the camera is a discontinued model from 3-4 years ago, so it isn’t exactly ontop of it’s game… But I have used many of the Kodak cameras and can comfortably endorse them… Definately consider them in your shopping.
Thanks for the recommendation. I defnitely believe it makes sense to buy a camera from a film and/or camera maker, rather than a computer / printer maker. Have heard many good things about Kodak cameras.
I don’t think I have ever seen a good camera from a computer manufacturer…. Adam has a Epson that is the biggest piece of crap I have ever used…
But then again, I could just be some bush-league photo-snob… I even know what an f-stop is… :)
What was that mockumentary… “American Story” ??? :
“This movie is so good it uses every f-stop known to man.”
I think you mean American Movie, which I have yet to see…
I am starting to feel like “That guy who hasn’t seen American Movie”, though, as everyone I know has talked to me about it. :)
I’ve been keeping track of Canon’s digital elph camera- it’s a sexy little 2 megapixel job- but has good optical zoom and canon’s usual good optics… did I mention that it’s very little and very sexy? Only problem is that it costs about $400 right now- so here’s hoping that it comes down in price by the time I’m in the market for one.
That was the key about this camera, price. Chris sold it to me for $50, which meant that for around $100 i got a camera and a 128M CompactFlash card… I can now take up to 400 pictures, which is more than enough at one sitting. I already had a metric fuckton of NiMH rechargables around here, so I also don’t have to worry about batteries (although I might buy a few more NiMH, just to bring my “float” supply up to where it should be).
All in all, it was an offer I couldn’t refuse….
What’s the imperial equivalent of a metric fuckton?
I can’t remember the exact figures, but it had something to do with NIST and John Holmes dong…
Okay, I give up – what’s NIST? A google search on “NIST john holmes” yields ambiguous results. No relation to NAMBLA, I presume?
Awww… Scot, you’re trying too hard…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, the government’s standards bureau…
Ohhhh! I was looking for the porn connection. I’m barking up the wrong tree. Again.
BTW, that “400 Pictures” figure was shooting at 1152×864, there would obviously be alot more pictures stored at 640×480