Monday, February 18, 2008

camera? check.


thanks, Nathan, for pointing me in the right direction. and thanks, paddy, for nothing. the PV-GS320 looks awesome. i compared it to a few other panasonics that i liked, like the PV-GS90 (which was on sale for $279 over at best buy and came with a free starter kit-tri pod, camera bag and lens cleaner kit) and a couple other cameras as well. the only thing i didn't really like about the GS320 is that the view-finder doesn't look like it can pull out and be angled which is a feature i like on cameras for when it's super sunny and glary outside (is glary a word?). but it's got a ton of other pretty sweet features, some stuff i've never even heard of before, so i decided to get over the view finder. i ordered it and i should have it in a week or so :-). now i'm just gonna go to best buy to see if i can get a cheap starter kit at their president's day sale...since the starter kit at bhphoto.com was like six-hundred dollars and included way more things than i would ever use. ever. thanks again!

4 Comments:

Blogger Padfoot240 said...

If you want a good stablizer for the camera, check out Johnny Lee's steady Cam!

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/steadycam/

8:48 PM  
Blogger http://alberico.net said...

That is a crazy large (hard to transport) steady cam... I Like the $1 Steadycam:

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1041948/1_image_stabilizer_for_any_camera_lose_the_tripod/

or there's a nice one that manfrotto makes (the 585) which also doubles as a tabletop tripod, it's under 200 depending on where you get it.

9:11 PM  
Blogger Padfoot240 said...

Eagle Scout!

10:21 PM  
Blogger Amy said...

yeah, i was talking about the little guy that you stick your eye in. i didn't know they made hoods for the screen...i'll probably pass on that. i'll just have to suck it up if there's a lot of glare.

i didn't know about using the same kind of tapes. that makes sense. is $3.50 a tape pretty reasonable?

yeah, what made me choose the GS320 over the GS90 was the list of features was like double the size on the 320 and they all sounded really sweet. there's one called the soft skin mode that softens details if you're doing closeups to reduce imperfections on people's faces. i didn't even know they could do stuff like that with video cameras.

that eagle scout's stabilizer was pretty sweet. too bad i don't know how to tie pretty knots.

11:56 AM  

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