Johan Malmstrom wrote:
> <snip>
> The two biggest surprises where that Ida will have to new cousins
> before next Christmas. Both Annas sister and her brother will have a
> kid with their respective wives.
>
Excellent! Won't be long before you need a video camera too. I just put
my grandaughter's term end dance and drama ( the three little pigs!)
performances on DVD for their parents and other grandparents. At 5 and 6
years of age, the performances are not too pro ;-) , but very enjoyable.
An hour goes by quickly when watching them.
I won't say video is 'better' than stills, but for young children, it
captures a lot that is not in stills. I missed some opportunities when
my huge, old Hi-8 VTR mysteriously didn't work when it came back from
loan to their father. But my hand was forced when Sony discontinued what
appears to be the last of a series of combination Hi-8 and Digital-8
cameras. I found one NIB on the 'Bay.
For someone like me with old Hi-8 tapes and nothing to play them with,
the camera will both play them and convert them to digital for download
to a computer. It also acts as an A/V A to D converter for any other
sources on a pass through basis. A bit bulky compared to DV format
cameras, but the other features make it worth it for me and the image
quality is the same.
The anti-shake is certainly a vast improvement over my old camera, which
had none, and 20x optical zoom is great.
> Ohh, and Ida has picked up the mju-2 and have started to use it.
>
Excellent again!
Moose
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