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Sunday, December 14th, 2008
First, I wanted to mention that there is a way to turn off the green LED on focusing. I’m sure I’ll get some blurry photos, but it’s nice to know I can always turn it on if I need it. Since that was the only real annoyance, I have to say that I really think the F30 is a special camera.
I took a quick test shot comparing the Canon Digital Rebel vs. the Fuji F30. There is no doubt the Canon trounces the Fuji in low light (not that I’m surprised). For a good comparison, I also took the same photo with my old point and shoot (the FinePix A340), as well as my iPhone.
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Sunday, December 14th, 2008
Im a little late to the party on this, but I just picked up a Fuji Finepix F30. Curiously, this is the 3rd Fuji that I’ve bought (which is nice since I have a pile of xD memory cards that can only be used in Fujis). I bought this camera based on reviews of it’s excellent low-light capabilities. I’m happy to say that it delivers in that category.
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Sunday, December 14th, 2008
Today I left feedback for my camera auction (loving that Finepix F30), and out of curiosity I wanted to see my first piece of feedback. I had to go back more than 10 years to find it. Aug 29, 1998, a month before eBay went public.
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
I just bought a Fuji FinePix F30 off eBay for $250. In a weird twist, this camera debuted almost 3 years ago (and hasn’t been available in stores for more than 18 months). The original retail price was $399, and could have been bought for $249 in July 2006.
Doesn’t seem like anything special. It’s a point and shoot camera, 6.1MP, 3x optical zoom. No image stabilization, no HD video, and yet it’s a hard camera to get (although the F31fd is even harder). Even today, it is one of the best low light point and shoot cameras ever produced.
They don’t make them like they used to… three years ago.
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
We have two HDTVs now (a 42″ and a 32″), but the only High Def device we own is the Xbox360. To be honest I haven’t had a huge issue with watching standard def stuff on TV… and I consider myself a technology geek. It’s not that I’m against getting HD channels, it just seems expensive, plus I really enjoy time shifting everything we watch with our ReplayTV (big fan!)
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Monday, December 1st, 2008
Comcast’s cable internet sucks balls… very slowly and unreliably.
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Sunday, November 30th, 2008
My wife doesn’t like pumpkin pie.
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Other than the small issue with the hotel not having a registration for us, we were able to get to our room pretty easily.
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Saturday, November 15th, 2008
Cara and I are on a plane headed to Cancún, the last reasonable vacation before baby arrives. I don’t mind flying (unlike Cara who really hates it). It does tend to be a number of hours of almost boredom (usually compounded upon lack of sleep). More »
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
I would be a bit remiss if I didn’t blog a little about Obama’s win in the presidential election. I was just browsing through photos on The Big Picture, specifically the set of The Next President of the United States, and I have to admit a strange feeling of patriotism which I haven’t felt… well probably ever. Obama has talked the talk, and walked the walk. He takes this job seriously, and I know that even though the short term goal was to get into the White House, he has a long term goal.
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