P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Geez, bummer man. Though sad to say it makes me feel better about my
> car problems. Hope your car is all right.
So far, I'm still not even certain what the insurance situation is --
whether the other owner's insurance will cover it, or declare that
it's not their responsibility because their policyholder's was stolen
and make me try an uninsured-motorist claim with my insurance (where
the deductible is about two and a half times my monthly grocery
budget).
I did get a subpoena to appear as a witness at the driver's trial
a few weeks from now.
David Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Makes me feel less bad about scratching my bike in a stupid crash on
> Saturday.
>
> Being a bit too used to my commuting bike (with rim-brakes), I
> grabbed the brake lever a bit harder than I should have. That taught
> me how much stopping power a big disc brake has. The wheel locked
> instantly and the road was jumping up at me before I knew what had
> happened.
*ouch* At least I wasn't close enough to get physically injured,
even if my car is more smooshed.
Boris Liberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bummer indeed...
Yah, as are the resulting transportation difficulties since. *sigh*
Wish me luck.
Marnie aka Doe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In a message dated 2/25/2007 12:19:16 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> I'll say this much about having a P&S digital camera to use:
>> the more I use it, the more I want a DSLR. I'm getting a
>> greater appreciation of digital photography from seeing what
>> this camera can do ... and a greater appreciation for my film
>> cameras from seeing what it _won't_ do that I'd been taking
>> for granted for so long. I spent most of the week before last
>> carrying around the digital and a K1000, switching off between
>> the two.
>
> Bummer, bummer. Yes, to all of the above. A DSLR can't be beat. However,
> even if/when you get one you'll still want a digital P&S. I carry an
> Optio S4i (think that's it, I always forget the suffixes) in my purse.
> Very handy dandy for situations like you encountered and other things.
*nod* Oh, I can see the usefulness of a P&S, but if I had to choose
just one, I'd just carry the SLR everywhere (as I already do with a
film body and have for several years). My hand-me-down P&S (beggars
can't be choosers) is too large to have the most important advantages
of a P&S digital -- it weighs enough to notice (though it is, yes,
much lighter than a K2 or a K1000, each of which I often carry), and
doesn't fir in my purse. It fits into a coat pocket, but that'll
only be good until the weather warms up.
I'm currently experimenting with a cheap little case I found at a
thrift store, to see whether I prefer to use the shoulder strap on
the case or remove its own strap and clip it to the strap of my
purse, Having fewer straps to tangle and fewer things to pick up
is good, but it throws off the balance of my purse uncomfortably.
I'm still making up my mind.
Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You're absolutely right: you cannot replace a DSLR's responsiveness
> and image quality with a compact digital camera. Not at this point in
> time anyway.
>
> That said, I have a Fuji F30 that I use as a audio/visual note pad
> for when I don't want to carry the K10D. It's about the same size and
> weight as my Rollei 35S. It delivers reasonably good picture quality
> even at ISO 800 and has the capability to append an audio memo
> recording to any photo on the storage card. Very handy as a note
> taker and even good for some pictures that are a little more than
> snapshots!
This is a SiPix SC-2100, 2.1 megapixel, digital zoom (1x or 2x only,
not continuous), no ISO setting (the EXIF data days 100 ISO), awfully
basic (though I do have exposure compensation and a little control
over white balance, if I have time to get through the awkward menus).
Let's put it this way: the person who outgrew it, upgraded, and gave
this to me, is someone who thinks of herself as "not a photographer",
just an ordinary person who wants to be able to take snapshots, and
even she wanted something better. So it's not much, even as a "when
you don't want to carry your real camera" camera.
Even so, I'm glad to have it. Although I keep bumping into its
frustrating limitations, it's good enough for some uses and the
speed/ease of getting an image from "seen it and thought to shoot"
to "on the web/in my blog" is extremely useful sometimes. As is
not having to bother asking myself, "Is this whim-shot worth
spending film/developing money on or will I wonder why I took it
when I get the proofs back?" It deals quite well (for the resolution
and the limited optics) with the sorts of shots you expect a P&S
to be used for most of the time: daylight photos at portrait or
group-photo distances without too much contrast. The problem is
that _I_ shoot at night and at dusk and macro and from too far away
and in 'dramatic' high-contrast lighting so much of the time. That,
and trying to catch cats doing things, where the shutter lag is
disasterous. So I'm glad to have a useable digital camera at all,
but wow does it make me envy my bandmates with their Nikons (two
bandmates and the soundman have the same model -- D70, IIRC) and
y'all with the K10D and the *ist-D and so on. And it makes me
appreciate my K2 and PZ-10 a whole lot.
By the way, I've noticed that my digital camera retains a lot of
information in the shadows where it can be teased out (with loss
of contrast) in GIMP/Photoshop, but highlights blow out very
easily and there's nothing there when they do. Is that typical
for digital cameras in general -- expose for the highlights like
slides?
-- Glenn
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