{"id":3978,"date":"2009-08-13T11:39:42","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T11:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/08\/13\/pimp-me-digital-cameras\/"},"modified":"2009-08-13T11:39:42","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T11:39:42","slug":"pimp-me-digital-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/08\/13\/pimp-me-digital-cameras\/","title":{"rendered":"Pimp Me Digital Cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The vast majority of the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/personal\/steelykid\/\">SteelyKid<\/a> pictures posted here have been taken with our Canon PowerShot A95 camera, which is around five years old at this point. It&#8217;s served us well, but is getting old, and has a few sub-optimal features, in particular the lag time between pushing the button and actually taking the picture&#8211; I can&#8217;t tell you how many incredibly cute baby pictures have been missed because she moved or changed expression during the shutter lag.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a little disposable cash at the moment, and I&#8217;m toying with the idea of getting a new camera. I&#8217;d probably look at something a little fancier than the PowerShot, because there are a lot of pictures that I attempt that don&#8217;t quite turn out because of the limitations of the camera. I&#8217;m not looking for a full-on professional camera, but I might go for a basic digital SLR.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that some people reading this know vastly more than I do, though. So, I&#8217;ll throw this out for my readers:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If I&#8217;m looking to upgrade my digital camera, what should I buy?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Price is not a huge factor&#8211; I&#8217;m not looking to spend multiple thousands of dollars, but several hundred would be ok. My main priorities are (relative) ease of use and shutter speed&#8211; I&#8217;d like something that can take good quality pictures quickly, especially now that SteelyKid is capable of rapid motion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vast majority of the SteelyKid pictures posted here have been taken with our Canon PowerShot A95 camera, which is around five years old at this point. It&#8217;s served us well, but is getting old, and has a few sub-optimal features, in particular the lag time between pushing the button and actually taking the picture&#8211;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/08\/13\/pimp-me-digital-cameras\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pimp Me Digital Cameras<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures","category-technology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}