{"id":137,"date":"2007-11-12T10:39:48","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T14:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dulcimers.com\/sharonsblog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2007-11-14T22:00:41","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T02:00:41","slug":"shopping-for-a-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"Shopping for a camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least three times, I dropped my four year old digital camera and it&#8217;s now history.  It&#8217;ll still take photos, but there&#8217;s about a 1\/4 inch separation in the seam and it&#8217;s just a matter of time before it dies completely.<\/p>\n<p>I have always loved taking pictures. The camera I&#8217;ve been using has been perfect for grabbing a quick shot.  It would fit into my smallest purse so I almost always had it with me, but now I&#8217;m looking at something that will allow me more creativity.  <\/p>\n<p>At one time in my life, photography was an obsession.  I do mean obsession.  I&#8217;d take a camera and a few rolls of 35mm film, and disappear for a day at a time.  That was in the 1970&#8217;s and early 80&#8217;s.  I was a SLR competitive photographer and member of the Photographic Society of America.  I wonder how much I can remember about f-stops, etc.  I want one that has a good auto mode, so my results won&#8217;t be embarrassing while I re-learn how to do it manually. <\/p>\n<p>I have narrowed it down to two choices.  I&#8217;m not considering a camera with removable lenses because I&#8217;ve gone that route (and at this time they&#8217;re lots more expensive).  I want something that will do it all without toting a huge camera bag filled with various focal length lenses.  I&#8217;m thinking of a super\/large digital.  <\/p>\n<p>After posting the video that was taken at the South Club pool (see the posting on November 6th), I realize I&#8217;d like better video capability.  Maybe I should just buy a separate video camera, but I&#8217;m hoping I can find a digital camera that will take great pictures in various light situations plus it&#8217;ll let me take awesome videos.  <\/p>\n<p>Of the two I am considering, one is better for videos in that it&#8217;ll zoom and do everything in either video or still mode.  The other choice has the lens which will meet all of my needs including close-ups, wide angle, and telephoto.  I am leaning toward the one with the impressive lens.  About it&#8217;s only limitation is that it won&#8217;t let me &#8220;zoom&#8221; while I&#8217;m shooting the videos, but maybe I won&#8217;t take all that many anyway.  (Up &#8217;til now, I&#8217;ve gotten by very limited video capability so I won&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m missing.) <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny, but writing it out makes the decision easier to &#8220;see.&#8221;  Maybe I&#8217;ll buy it today so I can get it and be comfortable with it before we play in Frankenmuth and before the holidays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least three times, I dropped my four year old digital camera and it&#8217;s now history. It&#8217;ll still take photos, but there&#8217;s about a 1\/4 inch separation in the seam and it&#8217;s just a matter of time before it dies completely. I have always loved taking pictures. The camera I&#8217;ve been using has been perfect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2007-11-home-for-the-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}