{"id":1420,"date":"2014-05-02T07:52:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T11:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2014-05-03T10:53:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T14:53:20","slug":"a-new-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/a-new-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"A new Camera —"},"content":{"rendered":"

— new to me, that is. I bought a used Fuji Finepix HS10 on-line from Henry’s. <\/a>[As a side note, I agreed to an online price, but when Henry’s had a sale that I didn’t know about they refunded $50!]<\/p>\n

The camera I’ve been using for the last several years, an Olympus SP-570UZ had too many trips in my carry-on luggage, I think: the auto focus mostly didn’t work, and much of the time I couldn’t put it to manual focus either. I do use my iPhone to take pictures and video clips and I bought a little Fuji XP60 when I was in California in March but neither of these two can take the kind of pictures I want to take. I didn’t want to spend $500 or more so I shopped used from a reputable dealer. (I wasn’t ready to buy used on Kijiji or eBay.)<\/p>\n

I am happy with my purchase. First 2 pictures out of the box taken from the same vantage point:\"first2\"<\/a>Yesterday morning, just before I was leaving for work, I heard a commotion on my balcony. I looked out to see Mr & Mrs House-Finch. She was busy stealing fibres from my planter. He was preening and standing guard:<\/p>\n

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