Self portrait with family photos, taken last week.
The knitted flowers came out of the washing machine cleaner, but not felted. Hmmm. Do they need another wash to show them I am serious?
I managed to persuade Son No. 3 to turn his knitting into a less ambitious, more achievable project appropriate for a six year old. Here is Fluffy sporting his new scarf. (And No. 3 sporting his 'Drop Dead Gorgeous' cardigan I knitted him last winter.)
And finally, I am tired of taking grainy photos with the stills option on my movie camera. I have a lovely old Pentax SLR that I take old fashioned take-to-the-lab-type photographs with, but no scanner so no emailing or blogsharing or flickring. I think the time has come to join the modern world and buy a nifty digital camera, just like real modern gals have. But what to get? Any advice? New, or on ebay? What do you all use? What should I look for? (Free knitted flower brooch to the most helpful answer! Oh god, what did I say that for ...)
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i kinda like the film still thing. gives the images a real intimate feeling. I use my hubby sony camera (5mega pixels approx and about $450))(its not here right now but when i get it back i will give you the make and model) the main reason we got it and not a cheaper one is the fast shutter speed. a lot of digital cameras have a delay between pressing the button and the camera taking the photo, which can be a real drag when trying to take moving images.
What temperature did you wash at? I did mine at 40 degrees and they were OK. Congratulations to your son on his finished knitting!
I use a Nikon Cool Pix 885 (several years old and my husband's cast-off) and had no idea what I was doing at first but it's been great and very easy to use.
I use a sony cybershot - 3.3 mega pixels. It is my husband's as well and it has some special property that made it very expensive. (He works in film and it is a professional model.)
I feel obliged to say that if I WERE SPENDING THE MONEY I would purchase an SLR, probably the Nikon. One can miss shots waiting for a non-slr camera to be ready and shoot and record even though it is only seconds.
love your glasses! :) cool shot.
If I had the cash and could buy anything I want then I would so totally splurge and buy and SLR digital for about $17,000. But as we are no where near that sort of situation we bought cameras we could afford. The first about 4 years ago was a Kodak - not special at all but it allowed me to get the shots and I was able to email them to friends. At the beginning of the year we wanted something better and bought an Olympus 4.0 for abotu $700,it has many special features and stuff but is still not the best - and again it's more than adequate. You will find whatever you get will do the job these days - helping you get online with pics. Good luck, and love the skirts you made your little girl.
Ok, chicken lady. Next time shot of your whole face :p
I love my digital SLR. We have a Nikon D70. It retails with a nice lens at $1200. Expensive but TOTALLY worth it! http://www.flickr.com/photos/joymadison
And I still muck around with my film/lab type camera, as it still does heaps better than my digital. Just I get the lab to process it to CD, not paper pictures. Love that qualilty, that my mid range digital cannot even think of approaching.
Nice blog. :)
we bought a canon powershot S1 IS about a year ago when our daughter was born (i think it has a 10X optical zoom and ~4 megapixels). we got it at www.buydig.com -- they have great deals. it takes great pictures, but is WAY TOO SLOW to catch margot's many smiles. i really want to get a digital SLR like the nikon D70 or the canon digital rebel XT, but they are MUCH more expensive (like $800 more than ours). i'll email you a link to an NYTimes article (i can't fit the URL here) from a couple of weeks ago about the new nikon SLR that came out that is a little cheaper than the D70, but has almost the same features. i hope you find one you like soon!
ok, couldn't find your email, so i'll try to post it here.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9506E3DF173BF935A25755C0A9639C8B63
Wonder if you see new comments to old posts ?
Anyhoo, we had a Pentax SLR, I still speak highly of it. In fact, when it got stolen, it was replaced with a digital SLR version - OMG, the joy !
Reading over your first few posts is funny .. ;)
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