{"id":631,"date":"2008-04-27T22:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-27T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=631"},"modified":"2008-04-27T22:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-27T21:33:00","slug":"new-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/new-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"New camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pgautier\/2447116100\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2158\/2447116100_784c8bc7f5_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pgautier\/2447116100\/\">Lying on the grass<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/pgautier\/\">PhylB<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>Our beloved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trustedreviews.com\/digital-cameras\/review\/2006\/06\/09\/Sony-Alpha-945-100-Digital-SLR\/p1\">Sony ?100<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/phyllisgautier.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/stop-press-beloved-family-member-sick.html\">started falling apart<\/a> and we had to send it in to a repair shop.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, I noticed that a shop in Hong Kong called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalrev.com\/en\/index.php\">DigitalRev<\/a> was selling cameras to the UK at a much lower price than shops based here, so I ordered a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/news\/0801\/08013004sonyalpha300350.asp\">350<\/a> to supplement the old camera.<\/p>\n<p>It arrived Friday, and we&#8217;re now starting to get results.<\/p>\n<p>Look at this photo that Phyllis took of Anna and me: Not only is it in 16:9, but it&#8217;s taken from a bug&#8217;s perspective, something which the tilting live preview screen makes it easy to do.  Note also the resolution &ndash; it&#8217;s 4592 x 2576!<\/p>\n<p>The only annoying thing about the 350 compared to the 100 is that the flash pops up automatically when the camera thinks it&#8217;s needed.  I much preferred the 100&#8217;s flash that you had to pull up manually when you needed it.<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lying on the grass Originally uploaded by PhylB Our beloved Sony ?100 started falling apart and we had to send it in to a repair shop. At the same time, I noticed that a shop in Hong Kong called DigitalRev was selling cameras to the UK at a much lower price than shops based here, so I ordered a 350 to supplement the old camera. It arrived Friday, and we&#8217;re now starting to get results. Look at this photo that Phyllis took of Anna and me: Not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}