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 | Nikon Coolpix P4 8MP Digital Camera with 3.5x Vibration Reduction Optical Zoom | |
 | "For me the P4 is adequate but not great" | 2007-01-26 |
| 1-25-07 After my Nikon 4300 was stolen a year ago, I bought the Nikon P4 in April 2006. Bottom line: I get more photos that are acceptable with the P4 than with the 4300 but none is great. The 4300 occasionally produced superb shots with perfect color and incredible subtle detail. * My main interest is in photographing wildflowers. The macro mode does not focus as close as with the 4300, there is less detail and what detail there is is not as sharp, even with the "Max Sharp" option turned on. The color generally is not as natural and finely graded even with post processing. However, the P4 does not blow out highlights as crudely as the 4300 did. I can take pictures of yellow flowers in fairly bright light and still see some details of all the petals and the center. * The P4 only shoots in jpeg mode, with no raw option. That means that the 8 megapixel pictures are smoothed by the internal algorithm into a photo only a quarter of the size of the original. Three quarters of the information is discarded so much of the 8 megapixel power is lost. * In P mode I usually set the white balance at Cloudy, the sharpness at Max and the exposure at +3. This gives more pictures that are closer to accurate. * For photographing wildflowers I set the timer at 3 seconds so I can brace my hands against my chest or a rock and avoid the shake that comes with pushing the shutter button. VR on or off doesn't seem to make much difference in this situation. However, when the wind is blowing so that the flowers wave continuously, using VR Normal makes the difference between getting an adequate picture or a blurry mess. The 4300 could not take even adequate shots in any kind of breeze. * The P4 seems optimized for taking photos five to ten feet away from the subject in good but not super bright light. My photo of water lilies taken from the top of a bank about 10 feet away on a partly cloudy afternoon was extraordinary -- sharp, with perfect color and detail. * The 2.5" screen is excellent in all but very bright sunlight. 3" would be even better. * For lack of a better alternative, for now I will continue to use my P4 but plan to upgrade at some point to a DSLR, probably the Nikon D80, which gets the best reviews of all the sub-$1,000 models. | ||
 | Belkin 10-foot IEEE 1284 Printer Cable | |
 | "Trustworthy long printer cable" | 2002-03-22 |
| When your all-in-one HP T65 printer suddenly won't scan you wonder if it's the cable or the printer giving the trouble. Use this Belkin IEEE 1284 cable with its easy-to-fasten connectors and easy-to-twist posts to eliminate a non-IEEE 1284 cable as the cause. A 10 foot cable is a good length when your printer is over on a bookcase. As for my printer problem, it turned out that the parallel port on my Dell Latitude LM had developed a bad pin 1. Imagine. The cable is still going great. | ||
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