Year In Pictures: 2010/11/05 - Cameras on camera

[plonq]

This little camera does not owe us anything. Inset to the top left of the picture is our ghetto light box. One of my projects this winter is to build a larger one with better lighting.

I will probably charge up and use this camera while my main one is in the shop (I need to take it in for a cleaning - the sensor is very dusty). Earlier this evening I took a reference photo and configured the camera to map out dust specs from future shots. The difference in this shot was quite remarkable.



We stopped at a little Mexican restaurant on our way home from work this evening. Our original plan had been to come home and barbecue some pork, but we were both in the mood for some Canadian bastardization of Mexican cuisine. As a compromise I ordered a pork burrito called El Señor. It was delicious, but about 1/4 of the way through it I concluded that there was no way I was going to be able to finish the burrito and walk out of there after, so I packaged up the second half of it for another meal.

On a whim, I weighed the Styrofoam container holding the other half of the burrito after we got home, and by my estimate the original burrito was just over three pounds. It's no wonder I was full halfway through it!

Comments

[aerofox.livejournal.com]

Reminds me very much of my (now ancient) 3.3 Megapixel Olympus C-3030. Yes, it is my main camera and I use it alot! Most of the images I post are from it.

I do need to replace it, but it has served me so well. I fear the first thing that is going to crap out is the little 128 Meg Smart Media card it uses.... which isn't manufactured anymore. Why on earth did Olympus adopt such crappy storage media I really don't know...

[plonq.livejournal.com]

This one is a 5.1 Megapixel - in fact it was a step or two newer in the same line as the C-3030. Two of the things that made this one particularly appealing were that it had an LCD display that could swing out, up and even around so that you could face it forward for self-portraits. That made this camera amazing for some of those awkward "hold it over your head" shots at crowded events.

The other thing was that it could handle two different types of memory cards; an XD or a CF. In fact you could have both cards in and switch between them as you wished. The cards were slow though, so taking pictures in RAW required a lot of patience. We tried to upgrade it to a faster CF card a couple of months ago, but it refused to recognize any of the newer cards - even ones as small as 2GB. That's when we finally decided to replace it with atara's new Sony pocket camera.