{"id":2319,"date":"2004-03-11T18:48:24","date_gmt":"2004-03-12T10:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/12\/more-camera-ramblings\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T16:52:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T00:52:12","slug":"more-camera-ramblings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/11\/more-camera-ramblings\/","title":{"rendered":"More camera ramblings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' 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17:09:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 17:09:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11557,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.dpreview.com\\\/reviews\\\/specs\\\/Konica_Minolta\\\/minolta_dimagea1.asp&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11558,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/froogle.google.com\\\/froogle&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.google.com\\\/shopping&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve spent a good portion of the evening bouncing around various camera reviews and specifications, comparing all the various <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/digital_camera_.html#comments\" title=\"Digital camera recommendations? comments\">suggestions made in my comments<\/a> today (many thanks to all of you!). Right now, I&#8217;m leaning towards one of two possibilities&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Option one is essentially what I was looking for recommendations for, a more immediately affordable smaller &#8220;point-and-shoot&#8221; camera. Right now, I&#8217;m leaning towards the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powershot.com\/powershot2\/a80\/\" title=\"Canon PowerShot A80\">Canon PowerShot A80<\/a> (here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/reviews\/specs\/Canon\/canon_a80.asp?dontcount=1\" title=\"Canon PowerShot A80\">DPReview listing<\/a>). Small, good combination of features, a little more expensive than I was aiming for (\\$381.52[&#42;]\/\\$385[&#42;&#42;]) but it looks to be worth it.<\/p>\n<p>Option two is if I can hold off a little longer, save a bit more, and get paid back for a loan I made to a friend a few years back &#8212; in which case, I&#8217;ll go for a more powerful camera. While I&#8217;ve had my eye on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canoneos.com\/digitalrebel\/\" title=\"EOS Digital Rebel\">Canon Digital Rebel<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/reviews\/specs\/Canon\/canon_eos300d.asp\" title=\"Canon EOS Digital Rebel\">DPReview listing<\/a>) (\\$1100.90[&#42;]\/\\$927.99 &#91;body only&#93;<a href=\"#mcr2\" title=\"Footnote 2\"><\/a>) for a while now, Nikon just announced their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikonusa.com\/template.php?cat=1&amp;grp=2&amp;productNr=25214\" title=\"D70 Outfit\">D70<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/reviews\/specs\/Nikon\/nikon_d70.asp?dontcount=1\" title=\"Nikon D70\">DPReview listing<\/a>) (\\$1114.49[][&#42;]) which looks to handily best the Digital Rebel and should be out soon &#8212; but the <a href=\"http:\/\/konicaminolta.jp\/english\/products\/consumer\/digital_camera\/dimage\/dimage-a1\/index.html\" title=\"DiMAGE A1\">Minolta DiMAGE A1<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/reviews\/specs\/Konica_Minolta\/minolta_dimagea1.asp\" title=\"Minolta DiMAGE A1\">DPReview listing<\/a>) (\\$754.19[][&#42;]\/\\$736.40<a href=\"#mcr2\" title=\"Footnote 2\"><\/a>) is <em>really<\/em> catching my eye. It doesn&#8217;t have the lens-swapping capabilities of the other two, but really, I&#8217;m not likely to have the ability (financially or photographically) to worry about that for a long time to come, and the number of features it packs in for the price is fairly astounding.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll keep looking, though, to see if something else looks like a better deal. I&#8217;ve gotta come up with the funds first, after all. ;)<\/p>\n<p>[&#42;]{#mcr1} Average of all appropriate results out of the first ten hits in a <a href=\"http:\/\/froogle.google.com\/froogle\" title=\"Froogle\">Froogle<\/a> search.<\/p>\n<p>[&#42;&#42;]{#mcr2} Average of the five prices listed on DPReview&#8217;s pages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Wiggedy Wack&#8221; by Utah Saints from the album <em>Two<\/em> (2001, 1:28).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent a good portion of the evening bouncing around various camera reviews and specifications, comparing all the various suggestions made in my comments today (many thanks to all of you!). Right now, I&#8217;m leaning towards one of two possibilities&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043,2050],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-2319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-photography","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}