I'm so behind on tech stuff...
Aug. 16th, 2010 12:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserI need a new digital camera. My old one is at least 14 years old and is larger than... well, I was going to say normal cameras of that time, but how many people would remember those? It's darned big, let's just say that.
It's surprisingly complicated to find a new camera. They all do so many things! And cost so much! I'm not really looking to pay $200-$300 (or more!) for one. I don't even need a video recorder (which they all seem to have), I just want to take a picture of my cat when she's doing something cute. No real bells and whistles needed, just a flash and maybe a zoom.
Then I got to thinking about sending the pictures I take. Even my mother, who is a no-tech kind of person, has a phone that can take and send pictures. I've only owned two cellphones in my life, and that's only up from one because the old one was analog and all the networks stopped supporting it (though it was nearly the size of a brick, so I wasn't unhappy to trade it in).
So... putting those two things together, I could get something like an iPhone... 3G iPhone is only $99, and the iPhone 4 is $199, both much cheaper than any of the cameras I looked at.
It's funny, the iPhone looks like a mini-iPad, though I suppose it's really the opposite.
Downside would be that it's on the same network my pad is, thus would never work while I'm at work. Plus I'd have to cancel my old service (assuming my contract didn't do some kind of auto-renewing thing) and sign... or maybe it could use the same account (same price I'm already paying?) for my pad.
Arg! I don't even need a cellphone! I don't make one call a year! It must boggle people that I live in Silicon Valley and work for a tech company, but I'm really not into all this stuff.
Stupid camera. *keeps looking*
Edit: Okay, camera got. It's under $100, very very purple, and if I want to send pictures I can download them and email them. I'd feel kind of silly and a lot of redundant if I had both an iPhone and iPad.
It's surprisingly complicated to find a new camera. They all do so many things! And cost so much! I'm not really looking to pay $200-$300 (or more!) for one. I don't even need a video recorder (which they all seem to have), I just want to take a picture of my cat when she's doing something cute. No real bells and whistles needed, just a flash and maybe a zoom.
Then I got to thinking about sending the pictures I take. Even my mother, who is a no-tech kind of person, has a phone that can take and send pictures. I've only owned two cellphones in my life, and that's only up from one because the old one was analog and all the networks stopped supporting it (though it was nearly the size of a brick, so I wasn't unhappy to trade it in).
So... putting those two things together, I could get something like an iPhone... 3G iPhone is only $99, and the iPhone 4 is $199, both much cheaper than any of the cameras I looked at.
It's funny, the iPhone looks like a mini-iPad, though I suppose it's really the opposite.
Downside would be that it's on the same network my pad is, thus would never work while I'm at work. Plus I'd have to cancel my old service (assuming my contract didn't do some kind of auto-renewing thing) and sign... or maybe it could use the same account (same price I'm already paying?) for my pad.
Arg! I don't even need a cellphone! I don't make one call a year! It must boggle people that I live in Silicon Valley and work for a tech company, but I'm really not into all this stuff.
Stupid camera. *keeps looking*
Edit: Okay, camera got. It's under $100, very very purple, and if I want to send pictures I can download them and email them. I'd feel kind of silly and a lot of redundant if I had both an iPhone and iPad.
