{"id":17,"date":"2003-03-16T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-16T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewebgal.com\/wordpress\/?p=17"},"modified":"2003-03-16T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-16T20:05:00","slug":"new-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"New Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a fan of the Olympus Digital cameras for over 4 years now. I started with the 320, got a warrantee upgrade to the 400 model and then got a C-2000Z.<br \/>\nAll the pictures in the blog are from the C2000 &#8211; a very nice, if slightly bulky 2 MegaPixel  (2 MP) camera &#8230; see <a href=\"\/heather\/digicam.html\"> My Digicam Page <\/a> for more history specifics. <br \/>\nAnyway, I noticed in the paper last week that Olympus has come out with a new 5 MP clamshell pocket camera, the C50.  It has an all metal body, but they finally made some changes from all the previous models. The  C50 uses a new proprietary battery and a new xD memory card. They&#8217;ve also done away with the top status panel.  I did some extensive reading of reviews and commentary and it seems that a number of folks really like the previous model &#8211; the D40. Some even said its better than the new C50.  Its nearly as small as the C50, had a number of nice presets, used 2 AA batteries (I&#8217;ve got 8 AA Nickel-Metal Halide batteries and a charger already), takes the old smartMedia cards (I&#8217;ve got a number of them). I even went to the local Circuit City and checked out the new C50 model &#8211; and yes, it IS compact &#8211; like a thick deck of cards!  <br \/>\nSo &#8211; I did the good thing &#8211;  I shopped Ebay for the D40 &#8211; and got one for just over $300 &#8211; should be able to call in my VISA info tomorrow and maybe get it before the weekend!  Thank goodness for my tax refund!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/gfx\/photos\/d-40-fb.jpg\" alt=\"photo of the D40 Camera\" width=\"309\" height=\"198\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a fan of the Olympus Digital cameras for over 4 years now. I started with the 320, got a warrantee upgrade to the 400 model and then got a C-2000Z. All the pictures in the blog are from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/?p=17\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}