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If you are looking for an inexpensive digital camera that is still good for the price, check this out: Aiptek PocketCam X: 3mp, flash, lcd screen. Aiptek makes the pencam that I have, it’s “el-cheapo” but really good quality for the money. It’s about $119US.

UPDATE: Although this is a great little camera and Aiptek has a good reputation for great inexpensive cams, it seems this model has had a lot of problems and has been pulled. We’ll see if they offer it again or a better one. Here is a good site for tinycams including a review of some cams: http://www.geocities.com/charles_islas/. And of course, the very good yahoo group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tinycams/

Ok, I’ve had it: I’ve decided. I must have the Sony Cyber-Shot dsc-u60.

Every URL I copy/paste dies within a day, it must be a cookie thing. So go HERE SonyStyle.com and run a searh for DSC-U60.

Anyway, I found a new page that shows THE BACK of the camera, and it’s so cool!

ANDDDDD! It has the words I’ve been looking for for a LONG TIME: ‘Its unique vertical orientation (designed for one-handed operation) and fast start up time (less than a second) ensure that the user remains a part of the activity even when taking a picture.” WHOO HOO! That is the one thing that has been elusive; a fast startup time.

The D60 has a fast startup time but it’s heavy and expensive (don’t want to take it EVERYwhere), and the Aiptek Mini Pencam has a fast startup time but is relatively low res, and won’t take pictures in low light, no flash, etc. It looks like I’ve finally found a GOOD camera that does not cost too much and is durable AND has a quick startup time!

That darn startup time, I have the canon digital elph and it is GOOD, and it is SMALL, but it’s startup time (AFTER you take it out of it’s protective camera case becuase it is not rugged and was expensive) is probably five whole seconds. I have missed SO MANY shots w/ that thing.

Anyway, I think the sony cyber-shot dsc-u60 is going to be a great camera.

Oh god, not another camera to add to my list! I LOVE this little guy! It’s a “tinycam” as far as I can tell, digital, stylish, and waterproof. It’s the Sony DSC-U60. You can read about it here.

UPDATE: Here’s Sony’s page on it.

UPDATE: Above link died, try this one.

UPDATE: Ok, I give up. Every URL I copy/paste dies within a day, it must be a cookie thing. Ok, go HERE SonyStyle.com and run a searh for DSC-U60.

This is so cute I can hardly stand it!!! cutie

Found this via wander-lust… … Du Jour (a photoblog).

I love photo assignments. It gives me an opportunity to be more creative, as someone is giving me an idea of what to photograph. There are several sources for such projects:

* 26 Things (via Christine
* PhotoFriday
* If you use a Lomo you can do their monthly contests (“Lomo Missions”) via Lomography.com.

I’d love to find more.

Wow, I just love this photo I found at PhotoSig.com.

I updated my FotoLog.net Foto Log.
fotolog? fotoblog? photolog? photoblog? blah blah blah blah blah blah…

UPDATE 6-5-03: Fotolog.net only lets you upload 1 photo a day now, so I no longer recommend them.

Yesterday I was surfing and saw a reference somewhere (I forget) to a New York Times article about photoblogs, but there was no link. So I went to the NYT website and did a search and could not find said article.

Then today I saw that FortySomething.ca linked to **the article**. (Thanks to Jennifer for linking to it.) This article is really great and links to some teriffic photoblogs. Go take a look.

Being the NYT you have to log in to read the article, but registration is free. I use the one that Rebecca Blood gives out on her blog but I don’t know if it’s cool to reproduce it here. I suppose you could go to RebeccaBlood.net and run a search for ny times and see what login she suggests using.

UPDATE: I created this login/password for anyone to use: laaser/laser.

I just love this guy’s photoblog: quarlo.com. My Lomo photos don’t have that super-saturated, neato color-tinted, vignetted look. I wonder how people do it. His site is fabulous.

You should look at this: a pinhole-photo self-documentary of one man’s journey through cancer: by Tom Lindsay, entitled: Diagnosis: Cancer. … this link via Witold Riedel

Interesting photos of Airplane Landings

I saw this at Photosig.com and it’s very interesting. This shows “the work that photographers still do in deep Africa using a wooden box view camera.“