Is that a camera in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
This all started when I purchased a Canon D450 for the wife last Christmas. She was and is still having just too much fun with it. So, ME TOO! Of course, I could not stand the thought of actually owning a CANON (still camera) being the Nikon Bigot that I am. Enter the Panasonic Lumix FX9. Sure it was emotionally tempting to go for something bigger and better, but this camera has the most important feature of the Panasonic line and the one I wanted most - It fits in my shirt pocket!
Have you ever wished you had a camera with you because ________ fill in your own blank. Well, now there is no excuse. I am taking this thing everywhere and having tons of fun along the way.
Oh yes, I almost forgot to tell readers - this camera is no joke. Six megapixels and a Leica lens on the front!
I read what reviews I could find on the camera, and for the most part, complaints were along the lines of "... wish it had a viewfinder ...", missing the whole point of a camera like this. It is made for the masses who are aging and vision is going. How many of you have older compact point-and-shoot digitals with viewfinders AND ONLY USE THE SCREEN ON THE BACK? Most camera companies have gone to the finderless configuration because that is what "you" really want. Batteries are not a factor anymore, so the argument that the screen drains the battery is moot.
It has simple menu formats on back, and with a little bit of reading the manual, you will be using this camera in minutes with absolutely amazing results. IMAGES TO FOLLOW.
8.17.2006
8.04.2006
BHPHOTO meltdown
BH Photo Video apparently have a melt down on their hands. Their site is offline and the phone is a constant busy signal. E mails to them have gone unanswered as well. SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT MACS! What is going on with B&H Photo? Current phone number I am dialing for B&H Photo in New York is 800-413-5653
8.03.2006
Ahead of the Curves
Well, it is even easier to see the handwriting on the wall - Kodak just posted another losing quarter - make that the seventh in a row. Goodbye to 2-thousand more jobs as well. I hope all those people at Kodak who defended the Kodak 14n are happy in the unemployment line.
Go ahead and keep shooting film - you can be like Kodak too! They forecast possible losses this year to perhaps reach the 1 Billion - yes that's Billion with a B.
Meanwhile, companies are gearing up for the next leap in resolution with Sandisk announcing the Extreme IV and more announcements to follow from other memory card makers. These leaps are logical when you take into account the need for faster read / write speeds as file sizes increase. It's not yet about the actual card capacity though - but it will be - and soon.
Why? Imagine writing files to a card that are 22-meg each instead of 11. You're going to need bigger cards to hold the same number of images as before. It is easy enough to predict that the commodity that is CF cards - AND THEY ARE A COMMODITY - will look back on 1-GiG cards as a charming historic relic in the near future. Expect 4 and 8 GiG cards to become the norm next year.
My professional friends resist the larger cards now because they can't bear to think of losing a card either blank of full that holds so much information. I say if you are in the market for cards, there's no time like now to get on the wagon with 4 GiG cards as your minimum. Feel free to think - the longer the card is in the camera the less likely you are to lose it. Imagine having 8 GiG cards and needing only two (maybe) to cover an entire wedding! Chances are you would never have to take the first card out of the camera! And just how often do you hear of cards magically being erased, lost or otherwise rendered useless? This is kind of the reverse engineering idea - never take the card out at an event and never lose it. Make sense?
Go ahead and keep shooting film - you can be like Kodak too! They forecast possible losses this year to perhaps reach the 1 Billion - yes that's Billion with a B.
Meanwhile, companies are gearing up for the next leap in resolution with Sandisk announcing the Extreme IV and more announcements to follow from other memory card makers. These leaps are logical when you take into account the need for faster read / write speeds as file sizes increase. It's not yet about the actual card capacity though - but it will be - and soon.
Why? Imagine writing files to a card that are 22-meg each instead of 11. You're going to need bigger cards to hold the same number of images as before. It is easy enough to predict that the commodity that is CF cards - AND THEY ARE A COMMODITY - will look back on 1-GiG cards as a charming historic relic in the near future. Expect 4 and 8 GiG cards to become the norm next year.
My professional friends resist the larger cards now because they can't bear to think of losing a card either blank of full that holds so much information. I say if you are in the market for cards, there's no time like now to get on the wagon with 4 GiG cards as your minimum. Feel free to think - the longer the card is in the camera the less likely you are to lose it. Imagine having 8 GiG cards and needing only two (maybe) to cover an entire wedding! Chances are you would never have to take the first card out of the camera! And just how often do you hear of cards magically being erased, lost or otherwise rendered useless? This is kind of the reverse engineering idea - never take the card out at an event and never lose it. Make sense?
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