{"id":156,"date":"2004-10-31T22:20:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-01T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp\/?p=156"},"modified":"2004-10-31T22:20:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-01T05:20:00","slug":"digital-camera-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2004\/10\/31\/digital-camera-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Camera Recommendations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Sox World Series parade was the final straw. I have a Nikon Coolpix 775, and for the most part it&#8217;s a good, serviceable camera. 90% of the time, it&#8217;s perfect for what I need &#8211; basic, unsophisticated shots. But I&#8217;m now in the market for a new one because the motor drive simply isn&#8217;t fast enough. It take about 30 seconds to boot up and another 15 or 20 to snap a picture, then 20-30 before another shot. For landscape shots and the like, this is just fine. For anything less static, it&#8217;s not. I missed some good shots yesterday because the camera couldn&#8217;t keep up. What good are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/sogrady\/archives\/000158.html\">2000+ pictures<\/a> if you can&#8217;t snap away?<\/p>\n<p>Other complaints? The flash is weak &#8211; and that ruined some potentially good shots from the Red Sox celebration. It also does not have &#8211; or at least I have found &#8211; a manual intentional overexpose feature for night-time shots.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone has any digital camera knowledge they&#8217;d like to drop on me, I&#8217;m all ears. Ideally I&#8217;d love a digital SLR, just for the lens interchange, but as near as I can determine those run close to a grand and I like taking pictures, but not that much. Basically I need something like what I have now, but with a better, faster motor drive. Suggestions more than welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Sox World Series parade was the final straw. I have a Nikon Coolpix 775, and for the most part it&#8217;s a good, serviceable camera. 90% of the time, it&#8217;s perfect for what I need &#8211; basic, unsophisticated shots. But I&#8217;m now in the market for a new one because the motor drive simply<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-completely-off-topic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}