{"id":7,"date":"2006-06-01T15:07:28","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T22:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myplace.bluecastle.us\/2006\/6?p=7"},"modified":"2006-06-01T15:07:28","modified_gmt":"2006-06-01T22:07:28","slug":"finally-a-digital-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/myplace.bluecastle.us\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"Finally, a digital camera."},"content":{"rendered":"

Yeah, Joy and I finally bought a digital camera. We had a garage sell last weekend for two purposes. 1. to get rid of stuff, and 2. to earn money for a camera. \ud83d\ude42 well, we were successful on both counts. We neted ~$140, and got rid of a bunch of stuff. Now for the next step–lets buy a camera! <\/p>\n

Choosing a camera was tough. We started out looking at Cannon A500 series and the A600 series, but then we decided we’d rather buy a refurbished camera with 8x zoom or better than buy a new camera with 3x zoom. After looking at dealnews.com<\/a>, refurbdepot.com<\/a>, dell.com<\/a>, and newegg.com<\/a> we had narrowed our selection down to a Cannon S1 IS or a Nikon 4800.<\/p>\n

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\nThen we looked at ebay.com<\/a> and were pleasantly surprised to see that both the Cannon S1 and the Nikon 4800 were being auctioned off in factory sealed packages. After watching a Cannon S1 go for $180, I tried to get the second S1 about 8 hours later, but it went for $180 as well. Four minutes after the second Cannon S1 auction ended, there was a Nikon 4800 Auction ending, so we tried for it, and after a minute of madly bidding back and forth, we won the auction with $130. After shipping we will have paid $150. Yay! Just $10 over our budget.<\/p>\n

Better yet, the Nikon 4800 that we won is a bundle. It comes with a 512mb of memory, lens cleaners, and a table tripod. \ud83d\ude42 personally, I’m just glad it has memory, so I don’t have to go spend more money before I can use it. Stay tuned, I have a feeling that there are lots of pictures in the future.<\/p>\n

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Yeah, Joy and I finally bought a digital camera. We had a garage sell last weekend for two purposes. 1. to get rid of stuff, and 2. to earn money for a camera. \ud83d\ude42 well, we were successful on both counts. We neted ~$140, and got rid of a bunch of stuff. Now for the next step–lets buy a camera!… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","xfolkentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/myplace.bluecastle.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/myplace.bluecastle.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/myplace.bluecastle.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myplace.bluecastle.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myplace.bluecastle.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/myplace.bluecastle.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/myplace.bluecastle.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myplace.bluecastle.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myplace.bluecastle.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}