Oct 26, 2008 20:02
My little point and shoot digital camera finally gave up the ghost last week, so I'd been contemplating getting a new one for Christmas. Sam wanted to get me a new one, and so we went to the Sony store at South Coast Plaza to look at the T700, which I'd gotten some info on in an email from Sony a month or two ago.
The associate pulled the red one out of the case and let me play with it a bit, and showed us how to switch modes so I could try out the SmileShutter feature like Sam has on his new camera. I liked it pretty well (I had the T1 for about five years I think) and so Sam bought it for me.
We have also been having a few issues with our old home theater receiver, so after a bite at Wienerschnitzel, we went to Fry's and looked at the one we'd looked at on Crutchfield.com Surprisingly, they had it, and had it in stock, so we left with a new receiver in our trunk along with the camera. We stopped at the Apple Store back at South Coast to get some HDMI cables for the receiver, and then came home.
I helped Sam with labeling the connections and handing him things so he could get the receivers swapped out, and after that was all done and working (woot!!) pulled out my camera and plugged in the battery to charge for a while. An hour later, I turned on my camera and played some, taking pictures of random things, and trying out some of the fancy features. The camera has I think 4GB of internal memory, and can do things like create virtual scrapbooks right in the camera. It's quite slick!
After playing with the interface for a while, I hooked it up to the PC, and it auto loaded the software (not sure if it pulled it off the camera, or invisibly downloaded it from sony), and it was super easy to post pictures to Flickr, and while it wasn't as helpful with Facebook (it didn't open the web page for me to enter the file paths, but still gave me a one click copy to clipboard of the file info to put in), I posted them there, too.
So yes we got toys this weekend... early christmas? I'm not sure :) But we got toys. :)
digital camera,
electronics