All I've got is a photograph

[vovat]

Last night, bethje, Dorothea, and I went out to eat at Chili's. That took care of the second of the four gift cards my dad gave us for Christmas. After that, Beth and I watched TV for a while, and then I went to bed. I ended up having weird dreams about a video game where you had to fight a monster inside a grave (certainly not something unheard of). Then there was something about a party, and some being that could change forms but needed to have its eyes replaced with each new form, or something like that. There was also a dream where colleenanne lived in Beth's basement, and we overheard her calling jazzsammich on the phone. (That last sentence sounds like it could be the result of one of those quiz things that plugs in random people from your friends list. But no, it was all the result of my own mind.)

I've been having trouble with Yahoo Groups bouncing my e-mails. I have no idea why this would be the case, but I'm hoping I can fix it by having the mail sent to my actual e-mail address, rather than my tmbg.org forwarding address. Has anyone else who uses a tmbg.org address been having problems like this?




I'm thinking of getting a camera, but I'm not sure whether to get the old-fashioned or the digital kind. Any recommendations?

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[onib.livejournal.com]

Camera - We went to a digital camera a couple of years ago and I, personally, would never go back. I love being able to see a photograph immediately - meaning if it looks icky, I can take another one. Plus, since I don't pay for film, I tend to take many more pictures than I did before. Being able to immediately upload them to share with friends is a big plus, too.

The big downside is just not having physical pictures to touch. You may think you'll print out all you favorites, but most people don't. It's not always as much fun to have everyone gather around a monitor to look at you pictures, but I think that's a small price to pay, since it is easily remedied should that actually bother you.

Oh, the only other downside for our camera is that it cannot take action shots. This is probably not true of all digital cameras, but ours takes about 2 seconds to actually take the picture after the button is pressed, meaning you have to anticipate a bit.

We still have a 1.3 MegaPixel camera and really should upgrade at some point, since the prices keep dropping on higher quality cameras. Even that is good enough for printing up to 8x10's, depending on your printer quality.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

The big downside is just not having physical pictures to touch. You may think you'll print out all you favorites, but most people don't.

Can you have them put on regular film and/or photographs if you'd like, though? I mean, a printout on regular paper isn't exactly the same, even if you DO get around to it.

Also, how much do you think a decent digital camera would sell for these days?

[onib.livejournal.com]

I probably couldn't provide much insight on cost. I thought the price used to hover between $150 - $200, but that could have changed.

As far as film, you have a couple of options. You can buy special film-quality paper for your printer (glossy and flat are both available). I've tried that and it usually prints out really well. Also, most camera shops (as well as the photo departments of a lot of Target/K-Mart/Wal-Mart stores) will print your pictures on high quality paper for a small fee per picture. You just bring them the image on your media card or a 3.5" disk.

For more money, I've also seen a lot of adds lately for special photo printers that read images directly from your camera and print borderless 3x5 or 4x6 prints.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

I guess I'd have to check out the price. I'm not really that eager to spend upwards of $150 at the moment, considering that I might need to invest in a new computer sometime soon. Thankfully, computers are nowhere near as expensive as they were when I got my current one, but they still cost a significant chunk of change when you don't have that much money. Anyway, I might hold off on getting a digital camera for a while, but thanks for the recommendation.

[aliste.livejournal.com]

I love my digital camera. It's just a lot more convenient because, as the previous comment said, you can see what the picture's going to look like right away. Also, I don't feel like I have to conserve my film, I can take as many as I want and not have to worry about paying to get pictures developed that end up being crappy. So I take a lot more pictures now than I did when I had a regular camera and had to take the film in to get it developed. I rarely get prints at all now (I don't even have a printer), but I don't care, because the vast majority of my pictures I share only in digital format, either on webpages or via email. I also like the ability to take short movies, which I do very frivolously (I have more movies of Wallace licking himself than anybody but me could possibly want).

So, in sum, I ♥ my digital camera. I would never go back to a regular one. Oh, and I have a Canon S200 which I got more than two years ago so it's pretty ancient, but I'd definitely recommend a Canon—mine has served me very well.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Do you know how much Canons usually cost?

[aliste.livejournal.com]

I believe they have a pretty big range of prices, from under $200 up into the thousands for pro-level cameras. Mine was almost $300 when I bought it in late 2002, but you can get something much better than that for much less nowadays.

[3x1minus1.livejournal.com]

yahoo occasionally bounces my list mail. though not to a tmbg.org address... their excuse is that my mailbox must be full, but, it isn't, and i get other mail at the same time. so, i have no idea. it's very obnoxious. sometimes i'll think, "wow, all i've gotten is spam, what happened to all my lists?" and i have to go and investigate and find that i was bounced, and set it to unbounce.... yeah, it's annoying. i've never heard of it happening to anyone else.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Well, it's happened to me several times in the past few weeks. What will usually happen is that I'll keep a list message in my inbox for a while, intending to reply to it, then when I finally get around to sending the reply, it bounces back. Obviously my inbox isn't full, because I don't think I've even used 1% of my allowed storage space, so I have no idea what's up. I never bother reading the messages I've missed, so I guess I could be failing to receive something significant, but I doubt it. Maybe I should check the recent messages from groups I actually care about, though.