{"id":682,"date":"2007-08-15T08:01:17","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T08:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2007\/08\/new-camera-day\/"},"modified":"2007-08-15T08:01:17","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T08:01:17","slug":"new-camera-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2007\/08\/15\/new-camera-day\/","title":{"rendered":"New Camera Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love my Nikon D-50, but ever since I traded in my trusty old battle-scarred QV-R40, I&#8217;ve really noticed how handy a pocket-sized camera is. I&#8217;ve been waiting to find one that I really liked, and finally settled on the Panasonic DMC-TZ3. Aside from having a Leica lens that boasts 10x optical zoom and virtually no shutter lag, it&#8217;s just a really nicely designed camera. I&#8217;ll be testing it out for a while, but here are some preliminary pictures from a 5 minute walk around my neighborhood:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"firstlumixpics01.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/firstlumixpics01.JPG\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><br \/>\n<em>A bee pollinates a California poppy, which also happens to be our state flower. Its bright orange is much like that of the Garibaldi, California&#8217;s state fish. <\/em><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"firstlumixpics02.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/firstlumixpics02.JPG\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><br \/>\n<em>A few months ago, Pacific Grove installed these tsunami warning signs along the coastline. I swear I&#8217;ve seen a design very similar to this in Japan somewhere.<\/em><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"firstlumixpics03.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/firstlumixpics03.JPG\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><br \/>\n<em>This barnacle shell has been taken over by seaweed. The shell broke off, the seaweed dried out, and now it is resting on the beach at Lover&#8217;s Point.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nWith this smaller camera, I can be more discrete when taking pictures, I can take it places where the D-50 is impractical, and I can use it to shoot in ways that the D-50 can&#8217;t.<br \/>\nWith this new camera I&#8217;ll be able to shoot using a display, which should be interesting. I find that the style of my photos is a bit different when I use a viewfinder, as opposed to looking at a screen to compose a picture.<br \/>\nIt feels good to have more than just an SLR again. I wish every day could be New Camera Day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love my Nikon D-50, but ever since I traded in my trusty old battle-scarred QV-R40, I&#8217;ve really noticed how handy a pocket-sized camera is. I&#8217;ve been waiting to find one that I really liked, and finally settled on the Panasonic DMC-TZ3. Aside from having a Leica lens that boasts 10x optical zoom and virtually &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2007\/08\/15\/new-camera-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}