Friday, April 02, 2004 12:42 PM
szurgot
Vaction and Technology (Part I) - Digital Camera (Slighly OT)
My wife and I just got back from a Disney Land and Sea Cruise (I'll talk about it off the main feed) but I learned some interesting things about technology.
We bought a new digital camera for the trip. It's a nice Sony still with MPEG capabilities. However, everything that could go wrong did. I took half the charger, but forgot the other half, so I was stuck with two batteries, and no way to recharge (fortunately, they found a Sony cord on the ship, so I got them recharged right when they died, and that was good for the rest of the trip.) The lesson is either buy a camera that takes regular batteries, or triple check your cords.
Second, I bought a 256 MB memory card. Scaled it down to 3.1 Megapixel so that fit about 200 pictures. But, since it wasn't a sony card, I couldn't find anything but the camera to read it, so I couldn't offload to disc, but it read the 32MB Sony, I was so frustrated. Never buy a non-sony SD card. Grrr...
But we're back now, with close too 300mb of pictures, and two full cameras to develop, so that should be plenty of pictures.