I carry my camera around in my pocket. I want to always have it on hand in case I need a picture for Bradaptation. When I got an iPhone, I thought my camera would be obsolete, but the iPhone doesn’t zoom. I use zoom way too much to go without it. But my old camera is full of lint from my pockets. As a result, my pictures have ghostly dots all over them. I think people mostly don’t notice, but I do and it bothers me.
Three weeks ago, I got a new camera. It was on Woot. I checked all the reviews, and they seemed positive. Some people weren’t seeing that it uses a microSD card to hold the pictures, but I saw that, and it wasn’t a problem. It had 8x zoom, which was WAY better than my old 3x zoom. And it was only $80, including shipping. Awesome!
When the camera arrived, it was everything I expected. It takes wonderful pictures. And I can zoom in way better than with my old camera. And there’s no lint.
But the new camera is bigger than my old one. Noticeably. I carry my camera in my front pocket. Camera plus phone plus wallet equals big lump on the side of my leg. And the new camera made it even bigger. I can’t do it. I just can’t do it. The new camera can go along for special occasions (like visiting the cherry trees in Washington D.C.), but for every-day use, I have to stick with my old camera. Maybe in a little while I’ll try looking for something new again.
The difference in size in the pictures is almost to scale. The new camera isn’t quite as big as it appears below.
OLD:
NEW:
What do you mean the iPhone doesn’t zoom?
Digital zoom doesn’t count. It’s all grainy. When I first tried it on THIS post, I thought I was doing something wrong.
I’ve seen attachments that let you do physical zoom for iPhones, but those are as expensive and big as a separate camera.
Okay. I agree that digital zoom is crappy – I don’t like it either. Mostly I was afraid you hadn’t discovered that feature on your phone. I thought Siri should have told you.
Hehe… Oh yes – Siri and I are getting along famously. Except yesterday she couldn’t tell me who Billy Ripken is. She had to send me to the internet.
Siri is obviously not from around here…Hon.
Did I not explain who Billy was thoroughly enough?
You explained who he was, but I wanted her to show me a picture and she couldn’t do it. If you ask her who Justin Bieber is, she will show you right away.
Hooray for a new camera!! It’s like Christmas anytime of the year! Your poor old camera – it looks like it has been well-loved. I like the new camera, and feel it will serve you well. Now I want to go look for ghostly dots on past images.
I, too, bought a new camera a while ago, but since I go through the like Kleenex, I was embarrassed to post about it.
There are many specks on the picture in THIS post.
Ha!
Amazingly, my life is complete with no photo-taking abilities anywhere. [Still have a “StupidPhone”, and the digital camera we didhave last Christmas was stolen three weeks later and never replaced.]
Say…that Kodak with Easy Share looks a bit familiar…does Woot sell reconditioned merchandise as well as brand new? Hmmm…I wonder where our “uninvited guests” who rummaged through our home last year fenced their stuff. Interesting… ;-/
Could you carry the camera in one pocket & your wallet and phone in the other? That way the lumpyness would be more evenly distributed.
And I can say that I never, ever noticed any linty pictures, but when I looked at the link you provided above…..I saw it.
My keys are in the other pocket. I don’t want to mix pointy metal keys with smooth-surfaced view screens.
In the summer, I often wear cargo shorts. That gives me a separate pocket for cameras, so I may actually carry the new camera around a little.
So Brad & I were eating at Gino’s last night. We ordered our food, & Brad went to get his drink. A man then tapped me on the shoulder and with a big, excited smile on his face & said, “Is THAT Billy Ripken?” I said, “WHERE?” And starting looking around the restaurant. The man pointed to Brad & said, “Him, that guy you were talking to.” I had to say no & the man limped away.
Brad does actual resemble Billy Ripken, but Billy’s no Rockwell.