{"id":842,"date":"2007-03-23T12:02:08","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T16:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/03\/23\/the-digital-age\/"},"modified":"2007-03-23T12:02:08","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T16:02:08","slug":"the-digital-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/03\/23\/the-digital-age\/","title":{"rendered":"The Digital Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Well I decided to invest in a new digital camera after all (for those who remember my previous dilemma).\u00a0 My new Pentax K100D should arrive today and I will officially enter the digital age.\u00a0 We took a vacation to San Antonio and I loaded up my Nikon N70 to take pictures while visiting SeaWorld.\u00a0 By the way, I visited SeaWorld many years ago in San Diego and was very unimpressed.\u00a0 So unimpressed that I didn\u2019t go to SeaWorld in Orlando at all during my eight years living in Florida.\u00a0 Things have changed!\u00a0 Was a pretty fun experience in 2007.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Anyhow, back to my story.\u00a0 I had all sorts of trouble with the N70, film, and getting it to advance properly.\u00a0 I threw my hands up in frustration at one point and told my wife that I was done with film and would purchase a digital SLR.\u00a0 She didn\u2019t object at all \u2013 could have been all of my cursing amidst the families entering SeaWorld\u2019s entrance that did the trick.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Initially I was going to purchase a Nikon D50, discovered that Nikon discontinued it and was making the D40 now.\u00a0 Problem with the D40 is that the auto focus motor is no longer in the camera, so all of my nice Nikkor lenses won\u2019t work in AF on a D40.\u00a0 Screw you Nikon \u2013 to eBay go my lenses.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I was a free agent and looked at the various offerings from Canon, Olympus, Sony, and Pentax.\u00a0 Each had its strengths and weaknesses, but I am a Pentax guy from way back. \u00a0One of the first film cameras I used seriously was a Pentax ME Super.\u00a0 Pentax digital cameras get great reviews and they happen to be offering some serious rebates (ending March 27<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Next I purchase a fancy printer!<\/font><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well I decided to invest in a new digital camera after all (for those who remember my previous dilemma).\u00a0 My new Pentax K100D should arrive today and I will officially enter the digital age.\u00a0 We took a vacation to San Antonio and I loaded up my Nikon N70 to take pictures while visiting SeaWorld.\u00a0 By &hellip; 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