what do you suggest MB? you're the man at this stuff

phatj wrote:

Bill McNeal wrote:NFC doesn't excite me at all. With the credit cards, it's possible to have your credit card info stolen by a device while the card is in your pocket. I'm not sure how often this happens today, but as technology expands, so will incidents of this happening. I'm sure they'll come up with a way to stop this with encryption or something, but I wouldn't hold out for a phone with NFC at this point, it'll be more than a year before the technology really takes off, if it ever does. Then once it does, you'll have to store all your cc info inside an app, like google wallet, and make all your payments through that. For device to device communication Bluetooth is on every thing today and can accomplish pretty much what ever you want it to.

The difference between smart phones and smart cards is that there's no way to control the latter - the chip in the card can at least theoretically be accessed by anything in range. But in a smart phone the NFC chip can be turned off through software; e.g. unless you're in an app that uses NFC, the chip isn't even on.

Yeah, I didn't do a good job explaining what I meant, I think the stealing of cc info via NFC will slow the growth of the tech in the short term. The phone solution will be preferable, but it'll take a few years for it to gain enough popularity and acceptance. I wouldn't hinge my cell phone buying decision on it today in other words.

Apparently you might want to wait a few months for some bad ass android phones.
http://lifehacker.com/5895699/if-youre- ... nt-to-wait

so maybe my company's incompetence at getting Ice Cream Sherbert qualified will work in my favor after all....

Bill McNeal wrote:Apparently you might want to wait a few months for some bad ass android phones.
http://lifehacker.com/5895699/if-youre- ... nt-to-wait

I wish somebody other than Apple would make high-end phones in a smaller form factor.

Hydrogen powered Honda can be used as a backup generator for your house!

The auto manufacturer outfitted the hydrogen fuel cell vehicle with a mobile power supply system, enabling the car to provide 9 kilowatts of electricity continuously for more than seven hours on a full tank of hydrogen at peak generation.

Now that's what I'm talkin' about!

Let's set up that hydrogen infrastructure! Get with it Barack!!!

bitchin' camaro bitchin' camaro

Interested in getting a really good camera. Any suggestions? Really just want it for traveling and videos.

what do you want to spend? i got a canon t3 as a refurb from canon for $380 and love it

The Dude wrote:what do you want to spend? i got a canon t3 as a refurb from canon for $380 and love it

where'd you get it and did it come with some type of warranty? ironically, i'm in the market for a nice, new camera. i have a cannon powershot from 2008 but it just doesn't do the trick anymore.

The Dude wrote:what do you want to spend? i got a canon t3 as a refurb from canon for $380 and love it

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What's the better brand? Kodak, Canon, Lumix, Nikon?

The Savior wrote:

The Dude wrote:what do you want to spend? i got a canon t3 as a refurb from canon for $380 and love it

ironically, i'm in the market for a nice, new camera.

Did we just become best friends?

PTOITWCFTPP wrote:

The Dude wrote:what do you want to spend? i got a canon t3 as a refurb from canon for $380 and love it

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What's the better brand? Kodak, Canon, Lumix, Nikon?

Not Kodak - they're bankrupt and haven't made good cameras in ages.

You can't really go wrong with Canon, Nikon, Sony, Panasonic, or Olympus (the latter is troubled as a company due to some shady financial dealings, but their Micro Four Thirds equipment is fully compatible with the standard and thus, even if the company goes belly-up, will continue to be usable into the future). The former two are the most established brands and have the most robust lens lineups, which may or may not interest you. Sony bought Minolta some years ago so it also has a well-established stable of lenses. Panasonic and Olympus jointly created the Micro Four Thirds standard a few years ago, which is a standard for interchangeable-lens cameras that utilize full-time through-the-sensor image viewing, rather than the previous standard SLR format. This permits more compact design but has some disadvantages, primarily poorer auto-focus performance (though still very good compared to point-and-shoots).

I own the very first Micro Four Thirds camera, the Panasonic Lumix G1. Though the format was designed from the ground up to enable superior video capture vs. any existing digital still camera, mine has no video mode at all. The story goes that Panasonic didn't have their video mode fully refined so they opted to omit it entirely rather than put some half-baked video mode into the camera. Since I personally don't care at all about video that's not a drawback for me. But all subsequent MFT cameras have very good video.

What are your requirements for a camera? Can you rank the parameters below?

Compactness
Large lens lineup
Low-light image quality
Direct manual controls (as in, lots of knobs and buttons, vs. going through menus to change settings)
Depth-of-field control (the ability to focus on the eyelashes of your portrait subject while having the rest progressively in less focus)
Video quality
Ability to exercise manual control over photographic settings during video shooting
Auto-focus speed

I'm new to the camera world.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0035FZJM6/ref=oh_o02_s01_i00_details

I've had that for 18 months now and it's fine, but I'm looking for a camera that's going to have a better quality of pictures with lighting/colors/etc, have a better zoom, have HD video, fast action shooting. That's pretty much all I'm looking for.

Unfortunately, that's a pretty tall order. Fast action shooting pretty much takes you into the DSLR realm, but the better zoom part is hard. The reason why compact cameras such as yours have such big zooms is that they have tiny sensors, which really limits image quality. A better zoom on a camera that takes noticeably better photos is going to cost a lot, and be much, much, larger.

The Savior wrote:

The Dude wrote:what do you want to spend? i got a canon t3 as a refurb from canon for $380 and love it

where'd you get it and did it come with some type of warranty? ironically, i'm in the market for a nice, new camera. i have a cannon powershot from 2008 but it just doesn't do the trick anymore.

go on a site like dealcatcher or something and just look at deals for a few days. my camera was brand new, I talked to the operator who said it's usually unopened returns from box stores who couldn't sell them. I think it had a 90 day warranty.

phatj wrote:Unfortunately, that's a pretty tall order. Fast action shooting pretty much takes you into the DSLR realm, but the better zoom part is hard. The reason why compact cameras such as yours have such big zooms is that they have tiny sensors, which really limits image quality. A better zoom on a camera that takes noticeably better photos is going to cost a lot, and be much, much, larger.

appreciate the info. may post some links and get a consensus from the experts here

http://www.amazon.com/Canon-Rebel-T3-Digital-18-55mm/dp/B004J3Y9U6/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS?ie=UTF8&coliid=I3CPC09RYVASLY&colid=1J37AP4TFYARF

Digging this one

that's the one i suggested. shop around though, i got it for $380