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May 2005 Blog Posts

Which Digital SLR?

I've been ponder digital SLR's for the last couple of months. I picked up the Nikon D70 in Costco and was repulsed by how plastic the thing felt compared to my 20 year old SLR. The Canon 20D sounded excellent and then the Canon 350D came out and looked like it had all the features for much less. Perfect. A couple of day ago I went to a camera shop and tried it out. I found the Canon 350D too small for my hands and the kit lens was worse than the D70. Horrible! The display was small and only on the...

posted @ Thursday, May 19, 2005 7:48 PM | Feedback (4) |

Lego Star Wars

Finally traded in some duff Xbox games and got a new one: "Lego Star Wars". Brilliant game for the kids. The problem I find with Xbox is that there are tons of games for older kids and adults but very few games for younger kids. PlayStation and Nintendo are better in that regards. Lego Stars Wars looks great and has fabulously simple game control. Killing just involves breaking apart lego opponents so the violence it tame enough. It's even fun as an adult. Recommended. However, beware of buying the PC version. You might get a "Pixel Shader 1.1 Required" error. I spent some...

posted @ Thursday, May 19, 2005 7:22 PM | Feedback (0) |

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