Ungrateful Giftee & other things I did yesterday

In order to appease my lovely wife and child, we opened one present each of the ones mailed in from my parents. I didn't really want to, but since we were going to be out of town during XMas, and I was facing a revolt, I decided to let them win. I opened Chris' present, and with much glee, discovered that he(or my parents) had included a gift reciept for the book from Barnes and Noble. I wasn't that interested in the cabinet of Abraham Lincoln, so I exchanged it for The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins, and Ringworld by Larry Niven. Hopefully I can get around to reading them.

I also stopped by Circuit Shitty, since it was next door to check out digital camera's. They had the Canon Rebel XT that I've been lusting after, but they felt that a customer doesn't really need to see how the hands on demo actually worked, so they left the battery out, and didn't have it plugged in. This was also the same for the Panasonic Lumix FZ5 that they had on display.

I did manage to find a lithium battery for my old Canon EOS 620, which I haven't used for probably around 10 years. I'm particularly interested in what is on the half used roll that is inside.

Digital Camera safari pt 3

Canon Rebel XT @ 1600 ISO
2.5 stdev at 400
4.5 stdev at 1600












Panasonic FZ30 @ 400 ISO
no StDev given












C-8080 at unknown ISO
4.3 StDev at 400

Above are some examples of photos taken at the maximum ISO’s of each respective cams. The noise present in the Canon is at 4 times the ISO of the Panasonic.

The Panasonic has a fixed 12x lens, and built in Image Stabilization.

The Canon uses the standard EF & EF-S mount for all kinds of lenses.

Finding the right Digital

I've been looking around, and I thought I found the camera that I was really looking for, however, the Olympus C-7070 Wide Zoom is currently unattainable at reasonable prices.

I've done some research into some other makes, and I've found several other candidates.

$584
Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ30 8mpx with a Leica 35x420mm Image Stabilization lens & manual focus ring.

$579-799
Cannon EOS 300D Rebel 6mpx (EF mount) CMOS for upto 3200 ISO

$683-904
Cannon EOS 350D Rebel XT 8mpx (standard EF lens mount) CMOS 1600 ISO

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Olympus C-7070 Wide Zoom 7mpx

A Side by Side comparison.

I'm really getting tired of trying to find the best camera. I don't want the noise associated with inadequately sized sensors. Megapix now really just determines the detail, Noise is the real thing that I'm interested in, but I can't find a site that sorts camera's by a noise rating, unless you just go by sensor size. I'm thinking of just waiting until after the Holidays to buy.