Testing

Just trying to get last minute things together for our new arrival. Alex went to the doctor yesterday and was 3cm dilated, so really, i could be any day now. I hope she holds out till Monday, the due date, 03/03/03. Just in case, Alex's mom and my parents came in.

I was originally struggling with wanting the convenience of digital photos, but the quality of analog film. My recent thinking was that I wouldn't be willing to give up the analog film camera, in fact, I've been wanting a better quality 35 or large format camera. So i turned to looking into an under $300 digital camera, 2 MP, and top priority would be ultra compact to minimize the addition to carrying a regular 35mm camera, the mini-dv camcorder then this digital. So I almost lmost bought a new digital camera today, but I realized our Canon Elura 2MC has a memory card. So I saved $250 and bought a multi-format memory card reader to download pics. The elura brings in 640x480 photos, the above photo is reduced to 400x300. Levels adjusted in Photoshop and 30% overlay layer applied. Maybe that's still too much of a hassle. My main desire for the digital at this point is to be able to throw them up on the blog quickly, rather than having to wait for developing and the cd to come back. I'm not put off by the low rez, because it will be less storage....Looks like this solution will be just as fast as any other.

I still have pics on the card from the first day i bought the dv cam before Paola was born over 2 years ago. here's one of Alex:

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Fulfilling the tablet mobility promise

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