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Actually, it's more like the camera of AWESOME!
George just got home with his glasses, the camera... and something else. More about that later.
The glasses look great; they literally take about fifteen years of off George's face. And now he can watch TV without getting a headache, as well as see the numbers on buses, read street signs, and other such things. Hee.
The camera, which as I mentioned in my last entry is a Canon Powershot A560, is flippin' amazing. For an entry-level digital camera, this thing does everything except make coffee. Among the cool features: it allows you to play with the ISO settings and it takes decent movies WITH sound. Among the not-so-cool features: it only has one level of Macro setting for close-up photography, and in order to download photos to a computer you have to turn the camera on, thus eating up battery life. That's what I know so far. George is in the living room pouring over the manual, so I expect regular dispatches from him throughout the evening concerning the exact details of the camera's many functions.
We took three test photos with it before even cracking the manual, which produced two portrait shots with decent skin tones, sharp focus, and crazy levels of detail, and one shot of a magazine on the light table which was also hella crisp. Considering that the camera plus SanDisk card only cost about $180, I'm a very happy camper right now.
As for the "something else", it turned out that Don's Photo has a special on right now where you buy a digital camera and get a printer for free. George and I chose an Epson All-In-One CX7450, which is both a printer and a scanner. It cost us $80... yes, the "free" in this case means "buy it now and get a full rebate in two months", which we can certainly live with. We have a friend whose printer recently died, and were thinking of her when we elected to pick it up.
I am so very, very happy that we have a camera again. I'd missed it terribly.
EDITED TO ADD: It actually has special Snow, Beach, Aquarium, and Fireworks settings. Fireworks! *squeeeeeeeeeee!*
George just got home with his glasses, the camera... and something else. More about that later.
The glasses look great; they literally take about fifteen years of off George's face. And now he can watch TV without getting a headache, as well as see the numbers on buses, read street signs, and other such things. Hee.
The camera, which as I mentioned in my last entry is a Canon Powershot A560, is flippin' amazing. For an entry-level digital camera, this thing does everything except make coffee. Among the cool features: it allows you to play with the ISO settings and it takes decent movies WITH sound. Among the not-so-cool features: it only has one level of Macro setting for close-up photography, and in order to download photos to a computer you have to turn the camera on, thus eating up battery life. That's what I know so far. George is in the living room pouring over the manual, so I expect regular dispatches from him throughout the evening concerning the exact details of the camera's many functions.
We took three test photos with it before even cracking the manual, which produced two portrait shots with decent skin tones, sharp focus, and crazy levels of detail, and one shot of a magazine on the light table which was also hella crisp. Considering that the camera plus SanDisk card only cost about $180, I'm a very happy camper right now.
As for the "something else", it turned out that Don's Photo has a special on right now where you buy a digital camera and get a printer for free. George and I chose an Epson All-In-One CX7450, which is both a printer and a scanner. It cost us $80... yes, the "free" in this case means "buy it now and get a full rebate in two months", which we can certainly live with. We have a friend whose printer recently died, and were thinking of her when we elected to pick it up.
I am so very, very happy that we have a camera again. I'd missed it terribly.
EDITED TO ADD: It actually has special Snow, Beach, Aquarium, and Fireworks settings. Fireworks! *squeeeeeeeeeee!*
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Just buy an external memory card reader which you can plug into one of your USB ports. That's what I did with my camera. I bought an all-in-one unit on sale for something like $8. They normally go for more like $18.