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New camera
Dec. 13th, 2004 02:18 pmI have a new toy, a Canon A95 digital camera. It has a flip-out, rotating screen, handy for self-portraits:
This is a five megapixel compact camera with a great many more features than I am used to in a camera. My other cameras are manual-focus Nikon SLRs, an FA and an FE2. They have no menus, no fancy modes. They use three tiny button cells that last years.
The A95 will go through batteries much faster, I’m sure. I have a set of 2300 mAhr NiMH AA cells and a very nice Maha charger already. I bought a two-gigabyte “80x” CF card with the camera, $170 after rebate. I remember when one-gigabyte cards were $170. That was, like, a few months ago. The A-series Canons can’t write RAW files, only JPEGs, and 2GB is enough for over 700 full-resolution minimum-compression photos.
Expect lots of photos in the future.
This is a five megapixel compact camera with a great many more features than I am used to in a camera. My other cameras are manual-focus Nikon SLRs, an FA and an FE2. They have no menus, no fancy modes. They use three tiny button cells that last years.
The A95 will go through batteries much faster, I’m sure. I have a set of 2300 mAhr NiMH AA cells and a very nice Maha charger already. I bought a two-gigabyte “80x” CF card with the camera, $170 after rebate. I remember when one-gigabyte cards were $170. That was, like, a few months ago. The A-series Canons can’t write RAW files, only JPEGs, and 2GB is enough for over 700 full-resolution minimum-compression photos.
Expect lots of photos in the future.
