Technical Magic
It was a big tech night in the Durno home tonight. With his profits from making DVDs for the 60's Lip-Snyc competition and the Gr. 5 production of "Annie", John bought a new digital video camera. I bought myself a new printer.
John's thrilled with his new video camera. He was running around taking video of the cats and of his cross-stitching wife. It always makes me pleased when he can buy a new techie toy because of his generosity in filming, editing and dubbing DVD projects for my school. It was making videos for "Fiddler On The Roof" at our school last year that gave him the money to buy the DVD burner that he used to dub the school DVDs this year.
I had one major reason for wanting a new printer. I wanted better ability to print out photos of the digital pictures I've been taking for the last few years. My previous printer would print out pictures, but the quality was never the best. Tonight I bought a Canon i860 with a special 4x6 attachment for printing digital photos and I am blown away by the quality of the prints. As John commented, the photos are of the same quality of those printed at Black's Photography (where I used to take my films for developing).
And I found myself sitting here and looking at these two photos I just printed out and marveling at the technology that is continuously being put in our hands. Five years ago I would have taken photos on a still camera, sent the film to Blacks and crossed my fingers hoping I'd get some decent prints for my money. Now I take digital photos where I can take as many photos as I like because they can be easily erased and re-taken, where I can put them on my computer and improve the light, contrast and colour, shrink them, expand them, put them in e-mail and on journals and webpages and print out a perfect copy of any individual photo I want.
Really, I still find such technology quite amazing. Reminds me again of sitting around as kids and saying, "Wouldn't it be -cool- if there was some kind of machine where you could have tapes of movies and you could watch them at home? Or tape your favorite TV shows and watch them whenever you wanted to? Wouldn't that be COOL?".
Yeah, it would be :). Almost as cool as having a photo-developing lab right on your own desk.
Active day planned for tomorrow. We have to hit two libraries, one to drop off books, one for John to pick up his reserved copy of the new Stephen King Dark Tower book. Then John has to pick up some videos from a friend for a tribute video he's editing together to be shown at Toronto Trek next weekend. After that we're going to go see Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11". Sunday we're going hiking, but I'm not sure where yet.
John's thrilled with his new video camera. He was running around taking video of the cats and of his cross-stitching wife. It always makes me pleased when he can buy a new techie toy because of his generosity in filming, editing and dubbing DVD projects for my school. It was making videos for "Fiddler On The Roof" at our school last year that gave him the money to buy the DVD burner that he used to dub the school DVDs this year.
I had one major reason for wanting a new printer. I wanted better ability to print out photos of the digital pictures I've been taking for the last few years. My previous printer would print out pictures, but the quality was never the best. Tonight I bought a Canon i860 with a special 4x6 attachment for printing digital photos and I am blown away by the quality of the prints. As John commented, the photos are of the same quality of those printed at Black's Photography (where I used to take my films for developing).
And I found myself sitting here and looking at these two photos I just printed out and marveling at the technology that is continuously being put in our hands. Five years ago I would have taken photos on a still camera, sent the film to Blacks and crossed my fingers hoping I'd get some decent prints for my money. Now I take digital photos where I can take as many photos as I like because they can be easily erased and re-taken, where I can put them on my computer and improve the light, contrast and colour, shrink them, expand them, put them in e-mail and on journals and webpages and print out a perfect copy of any individual photo I want.
Really, I still find such technology quite amazing. Reminds me again of sitting around as kids and saying, "Wouldn't it be -cool- if there was some kind of machine where you could have tapes of movies and you could watch them at home? Or tape your favorite TV shows and watch them whenever you wanted to? Wouldn't that be COOL?".
Yeah, it would be :). Almost as cool as having a photo-developing lab right on your own desk.
Active day planned for tomorrow. We have to hit two libraries, one to drop off books, one for John to pick up his reserved copy of the new Stephen King Dark Tower book. Then John has to pick up some videos from a friend for a tribute video he's editing together to be shown at Toronto Trek next weekend. After that we're going to go see Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11". Sunday we're going hiking, but I'm not sure where yet.