{"id":1774,"date":"2008-06-11T19:14:59","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T00:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2022-06-14T12:39:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T17:39:50","slug":"cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=1774","title":{"rendered":"Cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My new camera was delivered this afternoon only 45 minutes before I left work so I didn&#8217;t get a chance to charge the battery until I got home. It just finished a bit ago so I quickly configured the settings and took a few test shots. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halo969\/2571862890\/\" title=\"Canon Powershot SD870 IS by halo969, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3060\/2571862890_6672fd699f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Canon Powershot SD870 IS\" class=\"entry\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post an in-depth review in about a week but here are my first impressions &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>Small and light, just like I wanted.<br \/>\nThe screen takes up much of the back of the camera, therefore I am getting fingerprints all over it! I see that I will need to buy a screen protector.<br \/>\nThe door to the battery and SD card seems a little flimsy but then again so do they all and I&#8217;ve yet to break one (knock on wood).<br \/>\nNice clear indoor shots with the image stabilization.<\/p>\n<p>This baby will be going everywhere I go once I get a case for it.<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t hate me, but I ordered another camera today &#8211; the Canon EOS 40D. I got the kit with the 28-135mm IS lens from NewEgg for $1,130 (no tax or shipping, whee!). I&#8217;ve been tossing around the idea of upgrading for awhile now. I&#8217;m happy with my 20D but Joe isn&#8217;t happy with my old Nikon 5700 that he&#8217;s been using. Not only is it inferior to a digital SLR, the batteries &#8211; and we have several &#8211; are all shot and barely hold a charge so he&#8217;s constantly having to swap them. Instead of buying new batteries, we decided he&#8217;d get my 20D and we could pretend we&#8217;re serious photographers. I also ordered a 50mm lens so we&#8217;ll have a few to rotate between us. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty excited because lately Joe hasn&#8217;t been too interested in going on any photo excursions and it&#8217;s not as fun if he&#8217;s standing around bored while I&#8217;m trying to get shots. He really enjoyed using my 20D last year when we were in Indianapolis so I know he&#8217;ll be more motivated with a new (to him) camera.<\/p>\n<p>Now I have two cameras to sell &#8211; a Nikon 885 and a Nikon 5700. I wonder how much I can get on Craigslist for them. I might end up selling the 885 to my brother since he says my dad wants a digital camera. Otherwise he was going to buy him some suckass p.o.s. from Aldi&#8217;s. Please. Even my 7 year old camera is going to be better than that no-name junk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new camera was delivered this afternoon only 45 minutes before I left work so I didn&#8217;t get a chance to charge the battery until I got home. It just finished a bit ago so I quickly configured the settings and took a few test shots. I&#8217;ll post an in-depth review in about a week but here are my first impressions &#8211; Small and light, just like I wanted. The screen takes up much of the back of the camera, therefore I am getting fingerprints all over it! I see that I will need to buy a screen protector. The door to the battery and SD card seems a little flimsy but then again so do they all and I&#8217;ve yet to break one (knock on wood). Nice clear indoor shots with the image stabilization. This baby will be going everywhere I go once I get a case for it. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=1774\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,36,21,11],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-1774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-product-reviews","category-shopping","category-tech","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10599,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions\/10599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}