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My camera arrived yesterday, safe and sound. It is indeed a brand new U.S. model with the extra accessories I ordered. I'm happy to recommend Beach Camera for your camera shopping needs. The camera prices are great, but you ought to do some research on the accessories just to be safe.

Anyway, as promised, here's a picture of the new shoes. I left the camera on automatic everything, so they're a bit overexposed. But you'll get the idea.

And just to show off my 8 megapixels (because I'm very, very excited about them), here's a shrunk-down photo of a flower from my front yard. In real life, the flower is just under 2cm wide. The first photo will give you an idea of what the shot originally looked like, although the file is rather compressed. The second is a straight crop from the original photo--no changing of resolution, no color or sharpening adjustments. In shooting, the only setting I changed from factory default was to use the Super Macro setting so that I could focus that closely. The camera recorded the shot as a moderately compressed JPEG.

I'm a happy boy. I can't wait to try out a higher quality JPEG setting and the TIFF and RAW file modes. :-)

Posted by jonhanneman at June 23, 2005 9:25 PM | TrackBack