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Friday, December 26, 2003

Christmas Loot

Well I hope all you got what you wanted for Christmas. I know I did.

It's a Canon PowerShot A70 digital camera. It's a 3.2megapixel camera. I know it's not the highest resolution out there but I chose the camera because of the fact that for the price it's a very feature rich camera. It's also very small. Not as tiny as some of those digital ELPHs but still it fits easily into one hand and into a pocket with no struggle.

At 3.2mp it has the resolution to do 4x6 prints and even 8x10s although that's really pushing the limit. Since I mainly want a digital cam for posting pictures online I figured it was overkill to go with a 4, 5 or more megapixel camera. I would end up downsizing to 800x600 or 640x480pixels anyways so why spend the extra money on the unused resolution.

So now the only real thing I need is to find a good photo printer. The basic choice is between dye-sub and standard inkjet printers. The dye-sub technology is better because it's a continuous print method and not small dots like inkjets are. Plus dye-sub printers put a waterproof and uv protection layer over the prints.

I looked at the canon photo printers but wasn't too impressed. The color quality was a bit bland and honestly the prints seemed a bit flimsy. I'm just used to the nice thick prints I get with film cameras probably. I guess I'll just have to do some research to find a high quality printer.

Besides the camera I got the AniMatrix dvd and some belts (daily use leather belts and black and brown ones for dress). Besides that I got a Best Buy gift card, Dinesh D'Souza's book "What's So Great About America", X-Men 1 & 2 dvd set, travel organizer for holding toiletries, and the usual sums of cash gifts. In all it was a pretty good year. Maybe it was just a stressful year or I've matured but I just didn't want many things this year. It was a real struggle just to think of things to put on the list for relatives.

Well anyways it's just a few more days till 2003 is a memory and we move to 2004. Isn't it just so strange how time passes. Seems like I was just here wondering what 2003 would hold for me. Who knows what 2004 will!
Posted by abarber on 12/26/2003 at 05:12 PM
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Lovely gift you have there.  What kind of gallery software are you going to use?

Posted by Dave  on  12/26/2003  at  08:58 PM

Not really sure.  The current gallery script I use on the site is pretty crappy.  I guess I’ll have to start looking for some sort script.

Got any suggestions?

Posted by Dexter  on  12/27/2003  at  01:57 PM

Either one of these will do:
<a href="http://coppermine.sourceforge.net/">http://coppermine.sourceforge.net/</a>
<a href="http://gallery.menalto.com/">http://gallery.menalto.com/</a>
<a href="http://www.4homepages.de/">http://www.4homepages.de/</a>
and then add Invision Board for enhancement.
I would wait until IB is updated to v2 and the scripts upgraded to fit IB v2.

Posted by Dave  on  01/04/2004  at  02:31 AM

 

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