Nick Postagulous
Tuesday, March 09, 2004
Mumble Mumble
Eh, quick entry. Alison and I bought lots of stuff at the two massive kids consignment sales. One is Kids Kloset (flinch at misspelling) the other is Kid's Market. Market rocked. We got lots of clothes, books, John Lennon print blankets, etc. I checked and yeah, I ordered the yellow shock boots.
CP-150 et al
Well, last night with three hours left on a Sima CP-150 on ebay, I set up a snipe. Originally, Sima CP-150s came with a 3.2 gig drive. There was one on ebay, and it's there now, that keeps having the initial bid at $100 and no one will bid on it. But I needed something like that. So, I picked up the one that had the hard drive yanked from it, and I noticed that Amazon has sold them sans drive also, for $41. Then, based on Amazon's page, I picked up a IBM Travelstar 6 gig drive for $45ish. So, with shipping I ended up spending the $100. But, my CP-150 will have a six gig drive.
What the heck are you talking about? "CP-150"?
It's a portable hard drive with Compactflash and SD card slots on the side. Plug it in the wall, insert a card, it lights the light saying it can see the card. Hit the button to offload the card, it makes a directory and puts the contents of the card into it. It lights a light saying it's done and you pull the card out, put it back into your camera, and erase the data. It's cheaper than the other units that do that kind of thing since it runs on either a wall plug, car cigarette lighter plug, or external battery unit (8 or so AAs in an ugly harness). It doesn't play MP3s or sing and dance. What it does do is allow me to take around 12, 000 pictures at a time while away from my home computer for the same price as a 512mb CF card, which would have only allowed me to take about 1200.
And really, with the six gig drive, I won't be using the 2 megapixel mode of the 3500, I'll be using the 3.2 megapixelness. Cha cha. So, really, only about 5000 pictures at a time.
