Tuesday, 29th of April, 2003
Toyota Power!
Monday, 28th of April, 2003
Went down to Circuit City tonight and bought a Cyber-shot DSC-P32. For $230 I'm getting 3.2 Megapixels and a 1.5 inch LCD screen - definitely a pretty good deal. The reason I chose it is because even though it comes with NiMH batteries, they're in AA form, so if I'm traveling and I run out, I can still pop in some regular AAs. Sony does the package really well too, with lots of attention to detail. It comes with all the necessary cabling for $230, with an A/V cable that does include the audio part of playback - a unique feature in these little digital cameras. Other little things like plastic cases for the batteries and 16MB MemoryStick card impressed me. The camera is nice and small, only a little bigger than my cell phone, which was also one of my firm requirements. The viewfinder is nice and centered over the lens, unlike Dad's Olympus, and controls are all much easier to access than the Olympus setup. There's a quick button to change the resolution and start a timer-driven shot, which is nice. The way it stores files is great too - it retains what number it's at when numbering the files, so even if I have taken off the first 11 photos off the card, it starts the next photo on 12, which is awesome for trying to store photos on the computer! It retains the last settings you had before you turned the camera off - like resolution and whether or not flash is on - features not on the Olympus, and annoyingly so. Overall, so far, I'm very happy, the only real problem I can think of is that it doesn't focus as closely as some cameras, but having used a Mavica extensively in the past, that's typical of Sonys. There's no true zoom either - only going to a lower resolution and doing a sort of pre-recorded cropping. That should be fine for my purposes though. I oriented myself with the camera tonight by doing some weight reductions on my Integra.
Wednesday, 16th of April, 2003
Tuesday, 15th of April, 2003
Tuesday, 8th of April, 2003
So I get this letter from AARP (American Association of Retired Persons), with a membership card. Granted, it's temporary, but it's funny: