{"id":182,"date":"2007-12-12T22:40:32","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T04:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=182"},"modified":"2007-12-13T10:13:51","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T16:13:51","slug":"couple-new-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":"Couple new toys."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was buying myself a new camera from Amazon and tossed in a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spindirect.com\/product.php?productid=16237\" title=\"Havoc Heli\">Havoc Heli<\/a> for the fun of it. It was only $24 at Amazon, although Target sometimes has them as low as $15.\u00c2\u00a0 Pretty cool little gadget. The cats go bonkers over it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" width=\"261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/Heli.jpg\" alt=\"Havoc Heli\" height=\"171\" style=\"width: 261px; height: 171px\" title=\"Havoc Heli\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www2.panasonic.com\/consumer-electronics\/shop\/Lumix-\/model.DMC-FZ18K_11002_7000000000000005702\" title=\"Camera\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/Lumix.jpg\" alt=\"Camera\" height=\"250\" style=\"width: 250px; height: 250px\" title=\"Camera\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As for the camera? It make take a bit to get used to. It does do very wide angles and the steady shot feature is nice. I need to pick up an SD card because the internal memory will only hold about 6 pics. Here are a couple of quick shots of my cat.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xocnet.com\/cal1.jpg\" title=\"Cat pic 1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/cal1-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Click for full size\" height=\"196\" style=\"width: 261px; height: 196px\" title=\"Click for full size\" \/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xocnet.com\/cal2.jpg\" title=\"Cat pic 2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"196\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/cal2-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Click for full size\" height=\"251\" style=\"width: 196px; height: 251px\" title=\"Click for full size\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note the noise. This is with the camera on the full auto setting and using ambient light in my living room. I&#8217;m pretty happy with the white balance (usually incandescent lighting leaves a yellowish tone), but the noise is pretty extensive in low light. I haven&#8217;t had a chance to use it outside yet. I was about to go big and get a full DLSR, but it was running close to $900. This Lumix is a &#8220;bridge&#8221; DSLR (meaning halfway between a point and shoot and a full DLSR). For under $300, I figured I&#8217;d relearn to shoot (used to own high end film SLRs) in digital mode and when I get the hang of it, move to a DLSR. By then the 10+ megapixel cameras should be coming down in price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was buying myself a new camera from Amazon and tossed in a Havoc Heli for the fun of it. It was only $24 at Amazon, although Target sometimes has them as low as $15.\u00c2\u00a0 Pretty cool little gadget. The cats go bonkers over it. \u00c2\u00a0 As for the camera? It make take a bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats","category-gadgets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}