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July 23rd, 2006

  1. The Tacos Didn’t Stand a Chance

    July 23, 2006 by Gail

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    When I took my eyes away from my plate, Gigi jumped up and tried to eat one of the tacos I bought at the world food fair at Harbourfront Centre. I didn’t know until a man walked by and started to laugh, which made me look over and I saw her nab a chorizo. Little rascal!

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  2. Cameraphones Versus Digicams

    July 23, 2006 by Gail

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    Flight by Cat Faery Shari

    So I’ve been posting photos I’ve taken with the Nokia 6682 mobile phone for the past few days, but its convenience doesn’t touch on what you can achieve with a regular digicam.

    Shari took this photo last month with a Canon PowerShot SD500, which is in the category of “regular digicam” (like my Canon PowerShot A80). Cameraphones like the Nokia 6682 don’t have the shutter speed range to capture fast-moving objects such as birds in flight. (Great shot, Shari!)

    However, I was fairly pleased with the phone’s results yesterday to get some shots of the kids on swings. The challenge was not only the kids moving, but that it was cloudy and coming up towards early evening.

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    More photos from yesterday.

    I like the photo on the right, but there’s no in-camera cropping tool. You can only see the expression on Jakim’s face if you view it at full size, which is 1280×960 for this phone. It has 6x digital zoom, but digital zoom is a useless feature for capture. After all, if you want to zoom in on your subject AFTER the photo is taken you can on the phone (and any other device after upload), but digital zoom is not “real” zoom, i.e., you are only enlarging the available pixels, not capturing more detail at a closer distance. Anytime you see “digital zoom” touted somewhere, it’s merely a marketing gimmick, not a selling point.

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  3. You’re In Big Trouble, Kid

    July 23, 2006 by Gail

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    This is what contrite looks pretends to look like. I’d scolded Jakim (4) for picking flowers out of a sculpted garden.

    “But I got it for you!”

    Less than 10 minutes later, Gigi the beagle spotted a rabbit, pulled Yanis (6) so hard he faceplanted down a hill and was dragged through thistles, and while I was attending to the ensuing chaos, Jakim ran off towards a street full of cars!

    Thankfully, THANKFULLY, all’s well that ends well, but I am NEVER going to take all three of them out without three leashes!

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