{"id":1888,"date":"2004-12-26T22:12:05","date_gmt":"2004-12-27T03:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2004-12-26T22:13:28","modified_gmt":"2004-12-27T03:13:28","slug":"blue-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/26\/blue-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"blue camera"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was half-thinking of trading in my Nikon Coolpix 2500 compact digicam, as 2 megapixels don’t make it any more. So I braved the Boxing Day sales, and came back with rather more camera than I bargained for.<\/p>\n

Henry’s<\/a> have a special on this week; $299 for the 5 megapixel<\/strong> Sony Cybershot P100. Any colour, as long as it’s blue. The other colours are $500. Go figure.<\/p>\n

It’s small, feels solid, handles well, and has a Zeiss lens (ah, how I miss my Yashica T5). The downsides are that it uses Sony’s weird, expensive Memory Sticks, and it doesn’t record sensor size for field-of-view information (ignorable if you’re not a panorama nerd). It doesn’t seem to want to connect to my Gentoo box as a USB storage device, but that could be a config problem on my part.<\/p>\n

I also got the quite ridiculous Sandisk 12-in-1 card reader, despite its crappy packaging<\/a>. It seems to work nicely as both a CF and Memory Stick reader on the Gentoo machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was half-thinking of trading in my Nikon Coolpix 2500 compact digicam, as 2 megapixels don’t make it any more. So I braved the Boxing Day sales, and came back with rather more camera than I bargained for. Henry’s have a special on this week; $299 for the 5 megapixel Sony Cybershot P100. Any colour, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[422,1195,230],"class_list":["post-1888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","tag-cheap","tag-digicam","tag-sony"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-us","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}