Rome - the camera geek edition
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neadodsThe new digital camera I bought was an Olympus FE-210. It ate a fair number of batteries, but that appears to have been a combination of my taking old batteries and the fact that it punks out when it heats up - and it heats up quickly if you leave it on, even if it's put to "sleep."
After eating my entire vacation's worth of packed batteries in Pompeii (a combination of heat and age, I think), my brother gave me a pair of the lithium AAs, and those stood me in good stead for several days, taking over 200 pictures, even when hot. Then with fresh regular AAs (and a cool camera) it lasted another day and a half. Definately happier with the lithiums.
Anyway, aside from that, and my inability to set the #@(@)*! date and time so it wouldn't nag me every single time I turned it on!, it was a very good camera. Seriously, a very good one... that like cars that take premium gas, wants to have the premium batteries.
First of all, it was amazingly sensitive to light - IF you turned off the flash. Here are two pictures of the door to the Pantheon.
This is with the flash, at twilight:
This, taken a second later, was with the flash turned off.
And this, boys and girls, is why I had the flash off for most of the trip. It made the pictures brighter!
Then there was the zoom feature. This is a mosaic that John Paul had installed when he was shot - he credits Mary for his survival, and she is looking at the place where he was shot.
This? Is where I was standing at the time. Look for the hand upper rightish for where the mosaic is.
By the way, the icon was made of a picture snapped in the Vatican's map room.
After eating my entire vacation's worth of packed batteries in Pompeii (a combination of heat and age, I think), my brother gave me a pair of the lithium AAs, and those stood me in good stead for several days, taking over 200 pictures, even when hot. Then with fresh regular AAs (and a cool camera) it lasted another day and a half. Definately happier with the lithiums.
Anyway, aside from that, and my inability to set the #@(@)*! date and time so it wouldn't nag me every single time I turned it on!, it was a very good camera. Seriously, a very good one... that like cars that take premium gas, wants to have the premium batteries.
First of all, it was amazingly sensitive to light - IF you turned off the flash. Here are two pictures of the door to the Pantheon.
This is with the flash, at twilight:
This, taken a second later, was with the flash turned off.
And this, boys and girls, is why I had the flash off for most of the trip. It made the pictures brighter!
Then there was the zoom feature. This is a mosaic that John Paul had installed when he was shot - he credits Mary for his survival, and she is looking at the place where he was shot.
This? Is where I was standing at the time. Look for the hand upper rightish for where the mosaic is.
By the way, the icon was made of a picture snapped in the Vatican's map room.
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Date: 2007-10-09 04:54 pm (UTC)Will definitely have to keep this in mind when I finally break down and get a digital camera myself...
WOW...
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Date: 2007-10-09 11:22 pm (UTC)