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Monthly Archives: July 2007
Photo used in Boston Guide!
Schmap which creates online tourist guides for cities around the world is using this the photo below on the Beacon Hill section of their Boston guide:
See schmap.com for the guide.
Fireworks on the 4th!
Some pics I took here of the Boston 4th of July Fireworks:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/timony/tags/fireworks/
Of course it was fecking raining the whole time I was there. I thought they started at 9.30pm and got to the middle of Mass Ave bridge at the 200 smoot mark at 9.15. They didn’t start till 10.30pm …
Camera!
Finally made a decison and settled on the Panasonic DMC-TZ3 and ordered it from NewEgg.com. Went with the Silver Model as it is $30 cheaper than the Black Model. Other cameras I’d consider were the Canon G7 and the Ricoh R6. The Canon beside various auto-modes also allows almost complete manual control, but is almost $200 more. The Ricoh R6 is comparable to the Panasonic, but is only available from one vendor in North America (it’s widely available in Europe & Japan), and is about $70 more than the Panasonic.
A review of the Panasonic DMC-TZ3:
http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/panasonic/dmc_tz3-review/
And a comparison with the Canon G7 that I had also considered: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1033&thread=22633538
The Canon G7 is $500 vs ~$300 for the TZ3. Looks like the Panasonic takes comparable pictures, whereas the Canon allows one to use more, much more manual settings, looks really cool, is a bit bigger …