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wlewisiii
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Last weekend was deer hunting opening weekend up here in Wisconsin. On my way up, I stopped by the family farm. My step-mother is a big digital P&S user and she's the kind of person they're perfect for. She has done conventional photography in the past and understands f-stops for example, but just wants lots of simple shots to email to a gazillion relations.
Recently she got a new camera, one of the little Sony's that have a Ziess Vario-Tessar lens (seems my old glass has had some effect 😀 ). My father had dropped the previous one in the goat pen and it had caused the power switch to be stuck and made a small crack in the clear plastic cover over the lens. They figured the scratch would mess up any images so rather than even bother they bought the Sony. This weekend I was told I could have it since it didn't work. 5 minutes with a tiny screwdriver and the switch was freed up. Popped in a old 8mb CF card, some AA batteries and it's as good as it ever was 😛
It's an old (~2000) Kodak DC3400 P&S. 2 MP w/ a Kodak Ektanar f3.0 - 3.8 38mm to 76mm (Equiv) zoom lens. It's heavy, it's slow and it isn't going to produce anything too spectacualar, but the software is on Kodaks web page and it's a cheap way to have the ability to do ebay pictures and let the wife use it for quickie snaps of the little guy to email to the grandparents. In the end, that's all we need. I just got a chuckle out of how it wandered into our hands. 😎
Anyone know where I can get a serial/usb cable for this old beastie? I'm figuring to give Radio Shack a try for what good that will do 🙄
William
Recently she got a new camera, one of the little Sony's that have a Ziess Vario-Tessar lens (seems my old glass has had some effect 😀 ). My father had dropped the previous one in the goat pen and it had caused the power switch to be stuck and made a small crack in the clear plastic cover over the lens. They figured the scratch would mess up any images so rather than even bother they bought the Sony. This weekend I was told I could have it since it didn't work. 5 minutes with a tiny screwdriver and the switch was freed up. Popped in a old 8mb CF card, some AA batteries and it's as good as it ever was 😛
It's an old (~2000) Kodak DC3400 P&S. 2 MP w/ a Kodak Ektanar f3.0 - 3.8 38mm to 76mm (Equiv) zoom lens. It's heavy, it's slow and it isn't going to produce anything too spectacualar, but the software is on Kodaks web page and it's a cheap way to have the ability to do ebay pictures and let the wife use it for quickie snaps of the little guy to email to the grandparents. In the end, that's all we need. I just got a chuckle out of how it wandered into our hands. 😎
Anyone know where I can get a serial/usb cable for this old beastie? I'm figuring to give Radio Shack a try for what good that will do 🙄
William
