{"id":261,"date":"2006-02-21T09:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=261"},"modified":"2006-02-22T14:26:35","modified_gmt":"2006-02-22T20:26:35","slug":"meet-my-new-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2006\/02\/21\/meet-my-new-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet my new camera(?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies and gentlemen, I present the <a title=\"dpreview\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/news\/0602\/06022111canons3is.asp\">Canon S3 IS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"s3lrg\" href=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/36\/102626826_854f5f105c_o.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"s3lrg\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/36\/102626826_854f5f105c_o.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"s3 is\" alt=\"s3 is\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/36\/102626826_854f5f105c_m.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Alas, it won&#8217;t be available until May, which is a bit longer than I want to wait.  Other likely candidates include the <a title=\"sd700\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/news\/0602\/06022110canonsd700is.asp\">SD700 <\/a>and the<a title=\"a700\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/news\/0602\/06022108canona700.asp\"> A700<\/a>, both of which are due in March.  Decisions, decisions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>EDIT:<\/strong>  And the winner is&#8230;the <a title=\"a620\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/reviews\/specs\/Canon\/canon_a620.asp\">A620<\/a>.  &#8220;What?&#8221; you ask?  &#8220;Why not a new model instead of last year&#8217;s<a title=\"a620lg\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/31\/103137816_20ec0427b0_o.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"a620\" title=\"a620\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/31\/103137816_20ec0427b0_t.jpg\" \/><\/a> model?&#8221;  Well, the A620 is a <em>huge <\/em>upgrade to our present <a title=\"a70\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/reviews\/specs\/Canon\/canon_a70.asp\">A70<\/a>, which came out in 2003 and has served us very well ever since.  This year&#8217;s upgrade to the A620, the aforementioned A700, is way more camera than we need.  And the price on the A620 was right.  For just under $400 we&#8217;re getting the camera, a fast 1GB SD card, and free two-day shipping.  Probably could&#8217;ve gotten a slightly better deal by hunting around a bit, but it&#8217;s always nice to shop with a <a title=\"amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/\">vendor you can trust<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies and gentlemen, I present the Canon S3 IS. Alas, it won&#8217;t be available until May, which is a bit longer than I want to wait. Other likely candidates include the SD700 and the A700, both of which are due in March. Decisions, decisions. EDIT: And the winner is&#8230;the A620. &#8220;What?&#8221; you ask? &#8220;Why not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-4d","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}