{"id":54,"date":"2007-07-03T17:20:07","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T01:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2007\/07\/03\/camera\/"},"modified":"2007-07-03T17:20:07","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T01:20:07","slug":"camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2007\/07\/03\/camera\/","title":{"rendered":"Camera!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally made a decison and settled on the Panasonic DMC-TZ3 and ordered it from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newegg.com\/Product\/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16830180096\" title=\"NewEgg.com\">NewEgg.com<\/a>. Went with the Silver Model as it is $30 cheaper than the Black Model.  Other cameras I&#8217;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&#8217;s widely available in Europe &amp; Japan), and is about $70 more than the Panasonic.<\/p>\n<p>A review of the Panasonic DMC-TZ3:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcresource.com\/reviews\/panasonic\/dmc_tz3-review\/\" title=\"Panasonic DMC-TZ3 Review\">http:\/\/www.dcresource.com\/reviews\/panasonic\/dmc_tz3-review\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And a comparison with the Canon G7 that I had also considered:  <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.dpreview.com\/forums\/readflat.asp?forum=1033&amp;thread=22633538\">http:\/\/forums.dpreview.com\/forums\/readflat.asp?forum=1033&amp;thread=22633538<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2007\/07\/03\/camera\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Camera!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}