Say Cheese !
Thanksgiving's nearing, and the excitement is running high, and so are my expectations. Haven't bought as much as a door nail since my stay here, all energy and resource concentrated on the four day deal many promised i would get.
Moved to a new apartment yesterday, and hopefully it'll bring in some moderate savings which i could use to fufill my cherished dream of owning a camera. When karthik bought his first camera, a Sony DSC-F828, i was astounded by what it could do. A near SLR, it had mind boggling features. While it got me interested in photography, it was way too annoying for my friends to see me fiddling with it, when our gang met :D. quite a few of my friends later bought cameras which i would pester and snatch from them...pothnis's nikon was a good bet, and it gave me the option of coaxing him or karthik...one would agree sooner or later and part with it :). while many started pestering me to buy one for myself, i was happy using theirs and instead ask them to check out good deals for me :D
I have a camera which i consider a family heirloom; that's how old it is. Well the camera must be as shocked that it can take photos, as i was when i first saw it.
for months i have been eyeing the Canon S2-IS, but rats !, the cost hardly comes down. one popular camera that one ! The other day vivek mailed me all excited saying :
"Oi...check out this deal on laptops on this website"
Me : " Oh no man, i'll need to buy a camera, waiting for a deal"
Guess i pulled the wrong nerve this time around, and got a reply back saying :
"You'll keep waiting for a good deal, and sure enough if you ever buy a camera, pigs will fly"
hehehe, while my mind chose to spend its time imagining pigs flying, vivek was all fuming in the texas heat :D..
well i don't get this habit of mine of saving money for a camera, but then failing to use it to buy one. the inner loud voice saying in my mother-tongue : "dubba camera aadre ?" (what if the camera is a total dud ?) and another thought rising : "what if the prizes drop dead just after i buy the camera for a fortune ?"
it's always the case, and i end up buying stuff, the prizes of which would fall rock bottom 2 minutes later. It however did not stop me from pestering people into buying a camera though :).
That's history..now after reading about it and having used its predecessor, the S1-IS ( another friendly gesture from suneel who owns one :D ), i can hardly wait to get my hands on it.
Have been getting stories that we'd need to stand at 3:00 am in the night on thanksgiving day; that's how long the queue would get if we went in late. I just hope its an absurd lie ! cold as it gets, its not the best of time to say 'cheese'.
Keeping my fingers crossed, and hopefully i'll finally have a camera i can call my own !
Click.
Moved to a new apartment yesterday, and hopefully it'll bring in some moderate savings which i could use to fufill my cherished dream of owning a camera. When karthik bought his first camera, a Sony DSC-F828, i was astounded by what it could do. A near SLR, it had mind boggling features. While it got me interested in photography, it was way too annoying for my friends to see me fiddling with it, when our gang met :D. quite a few of my friends later bought cameras which i would pester and snatch from them...pothnis's nikon was a good bet, and it gave me the option of coaxing him or karthik...one would agree sooner or later and part with it :). while many started pestering me to buy one for myself, i was happy using theirs and instead ask them to check out good deals for me :D
I have a camera which i consider a family heirloom; that's how old it is. Well the camera must be as shocked that it can take photos, as i was when i first saw it.
for months i have been eyeing the Canon S2-IS, but rats !, the cost hardly comes down. one popular camera that one ! The other day vivek mailed me all excited saying :
"Oi...check out this deal on laptops on this website"
Me : " Oh no man, i'll need to buy a camera, waiting for a deal"
Guess i pulled the wrong nerve this time around, and got a reply back saying :
"You'll keep waiting for a good deal, and sure enough if you ever buy a camera, pigs will fly"
hehehe, while my mind chose to spend its time imagining pigs flying, vivek was all fuming in the texas heat :D..
well i don't get this habit of mine of saving money for a camera, but then failing to use it to buy one. the inner loud voice saying in my mother-tongue : "dubba camera aadre ?" (what if the camera is a total dud ?) and another thought rising : "what if the prizes drop dead just after i buy the camera for a fortune ?"
it's always the case, and i end up buying stuff, the prizes of which would fall rock bottom 2 minutes later. It however did not stop me from pestering people into buying a camera though :).
That's history..now after reading about it and having used its predecessor, the S1-IS ( another friendly gesture from suneel who owns one :D ), i can hardly wait to get my hands on it.
Have been getting stories that we'd need to stand at 3:00 am in the night on thanksgiving day; that's how long the queue would get if we went in late. I just hope its an absurd lie ! cold as it gets, its not the best of time to say 'cheese'.
Keeping my fingers crossed, and hopefully i'll finally have a camera i can call my own !
Click.
posted by Jagadish at 4:18 PM
22 Comments:
Jugga namma Jagga....
hehe ;)
You really need something which you like and feel paying for it... Then I suggest instead of buying S2 IS kit, Its better you get Canon EOS Rebel kit (6.3 MP and a digital SLR)... I has got good reviews. Or you chose EOS rebel XT.. 8.2 MP... They are definitely worth the price. I have had my hands on these two and also EOS 20D... EOS 20D is what I am planning to buy this Thanksgiving :-))
Juggs,
Yes suneel is right. There's not too much of price diff if u go for older versions of digi slr instead of brand new S2 IS or something. deffy price of S2 IS will drop like all other canon models and u'll deffy cry. more over it shud be so boring.
eos rebel is what i have. i don take good pics but the camera is neat for the price. if u can afford nikon d70 check it out. as such these camera's price wont drop drastically any further i think.
k!
pj : hmmm, howda ? ...ayyo mathe S2 IS reviews ultimate aagi ide...infact it has ttl too!...eos minimum andre 850$ alva ? and add accesories to that, and it'll easy cross 1200$...S2 IS comes at a max 650$ with the kit including telephoto, wide-angle lens and filters... i am not sure if i am ready for an SLR right now...nindu total esht aithu camera lens ella inclusive ?
ayyo now i have second thoughts about buying the s2 IS too :(
You know how good you can take pictures... So buy some good camera(s), improve the quality of pictures.
Suneel
Suneel: :)...well i am not sure how well i can take pics, and i don't want to get a rude shock after buying a costly camera :D :D... and yeah, i'll get to what i do best : borrow one :D
Yappa yeno nangintha thale keduskothya neenu. mine in 2004 jan costed 800$ for kit = base camera + lens basic one (35-55mm). then i bot another lens 70-300mm with stabaliser etc for 500$.
u r kidding me. eos digital rebel EOS 300D is arnd 500$ including lens today.
I did not say S2 IS is bad. I said it's prices will fall for sure like EOS has or any other cam has. EOS 300D won't fall any further. if this aspect bothers u as much.
EOS 300D is entry level SLR.
k!
pj: iga confuse maadi kudsidia...nunge enu gothaagtha illa iga...eos xt 750$ ge sigtha ide...but zoom lens costs about 500$ minimum, without IS adu....worth aa antha ?
seriously juggs... yday i saw rebel for 600+ including tripod stand plus 15-55mm lens (ansuthe... not sure)
i am actually planning to buy an slr... but have made up my mind... i'm still unaware of the techie stuff and donno what to buy...
hange solpa tips haakthiri...
manu: yello ? 600$ ???? kalso link...may be i'll buy it off....33mm andre zoom esht irathe ?...
howdu nungoo jasti technical details gothilla, adikke kan mitksodu naanu yaavaaglu....
sari mathe tentative aagi yaavag thagolodu helu...neen thagond mele naan thagothini :D
Well how I looked at it is, I buy a base camera and be in a position to make life better without loss. progressively. see u buy a S2 IS. 6 months ke baad u want more. u sell S2 IS for 1/4th price. u buy S3 IS (again). 12 months ke baad u again want more (manushya noodu asey jasthi). u sell s3 IS for 1/5th price. now u wish u bot a SLR base and added on better lens each time u wanned more.
It doesn't rust or wear out, and SLR base camera hasn't got much functionality right, they are all the same (almost, other than MP n other features like mem etc). it's the lens that do the tricks.
yochsu :)
k!
Pj: :D :D...super dialogue :)..."mansha nodu aasey jaasthi" :D....hmmm, sari nodhtini will think, iga sadhyakke S2 IS drop maadidini ;)..searching for cheap SLRs..
oh too technical to comment. And language barrier as well...:P
i only know.'yen madu beku'. if it fits into ur conversations..then so be it..:P
-divster
divster: :D...hehehe, yeah that fits into the conversation :)..
well i dont know what to do right now, guess i'll drop the idea of buying a camera for a few more months.
Check out my blog for finding out the best camera in the world - ur eyes!
:D :D....precisely ! our eyes have the best resolution, lens , image processing tech ever !...absolutely astounding really !...
I checked your blog...that's a neat compilation, though i didn't get the song from which the first paragraph is taken from...
its a song by the pop singer Kylie Minogue. :)
Thanks, glad u liked it. Btw tats my eye..:P
that's cool :)..you didn't take the pic yourself, did you ? kind of difficult not to blink while the lens is that close to the eye :D...
hehe! as a matter of fact, i did take the pic.. myself.
Can u guess how i did it?
yeah :)...first u would have put off the flash. if you have a rotatable LCD display, then you would have turned it so that the display is visible while the camera is pointed at your eye :D... or you might have timed your camera and taken a high resolution photo, and cut only the eye off :D
latter is right! :)
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