I ordered a Fuji FinePix camera off Amazon the other day, and it hasn't been dispatched yet, and I want it NOW, dammit.
Oops, pic is bigger than I expected.
I needed* a new camera because the one on my phone is annoyingly inconsistent. Though last night I was looking at photos one of my friends had taken on an old FinePix 1MP camera recently, of a Celtic music gig at Eilean Donan castle, and they were awesome, so I suspect it's mainly me not knowing how to use the one on my phone properly. But hey, new camera. Eventually.
We were looking through my 7" singles, too, because of that list of indie bands yesterday, and I have a most bizarre variety, as well as a bunch I'd forgotten all about. My collection is basically in two parts, you see - crap pop from the late '80s, when I only had a record player and you could get singles in the knock-off bin in Woolies for 20p, and obscure indie from the mid to late '90s. I think I'm going to catalogue them on the computer today, so I might post the list up here. Does anyone know if there's a decent music cataloguing website, actually, the equivalent of LibraryThing?
Oh, speaking of which, I bought a Cuecat the other day after
caitirin and dakegra (I think) linked to them; it's a barcode scanner so I can put the rest of my books into LibraryThing more easily. In the shape of a cat, obviously.
* For certain values of "needed", as usual.
Oops, pic is bigger than I expected.
I needed* a new camera because the one on my phone is annoyingly inconsistent. Though last night I was looking at photos one of my friends had taken on an old FinePix 1MP camera recently, of a Celtic music gig at Eilean Donan castle, and they were awesome, so I suspect it's mainly me not knowing how to use the one on my phone properly. But hey, new camera. Eventually.
We were looking through my 7" singles, too, because of that list of indie bands yesterday, and I have a most bizarre variety, as well as a bunch I'd forgotten all about. My collection is basically in two parts, you see - crap pop from the late '80s, when I only had a record player and you could get singles in the knock-off bin in Woolies for 20p, and obscure indie from the mid to late '90s. I think I'm going to catalogue them on the computer today, so I might post the list up here. Does anyone know if there's a decent music cataloguing website, actually, the equivalent of LibraryThing?
Oh, speaking of which, I bought a Cuecat the other day after
caitirin and dakegra (I think) linked to them; it's a barcode scanner so I can put the rest of my books into LibraryThing more easily. In the shape of a cat, obviously.* For certain values of "needed", as usual.
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In good light, with a steady hand, decent composition and more than a touch of Photoshop I've had pics out of the Nokia N73 that aren't awful. But that's about as much as I can say for it - that and the BB are always around so they do give more chance of opportunity shots...
My new Kodak one is cute and shiny and fits nicely in my purse, so I have the "always handy" thing and the "takes decent pictures" thing. It's very exciting.
I was a bit worried about the size of this one, since I want to lug it about randomly too, but I think it should fit in my bag OK as long as I don't get the official manufacturer's case, which is a bit like a medium-sized brown leather handbag :S
In the end, I decided to go all the way to a digital SLR. After dithering for the past week, your post has finally (and thankfully) pushed me over the edge into this morning ordering the Canon EOS 400, which looks not unlike the Fuji above.
The fuji looks nice though, and it's one I was considering before I got my Nikon D50, which I lovelovelove.