Grant Laird, Jr. Blog

Nice review about slim digital camera – it will help me find good one for my children this summer for birthday.

I purchased my very first digital camera – Casio QV-770 probably in 1997. I fell in love with it and used it so much – it was amazing back then unlike today. It doesn’t have any disk card slot or zoom but it has 4mb internal memory and it can only take 640×480 resolution.

This is my first taste of digital pictures and nobody heard of digital camera at this time.

I purchased it for $199 at Wal-Mart store. Two years later, I purchased Olympus C-3000Z digital camera which is far alot better and crispy picture. I had it for approximately 3-4 years before I purchased DSLR camera recently.

Today, Casio have newer and sleeker digital camera with loaded features in it. Same thing goes to several another vendors including Sony, Nikon, and Canon.

Most lack an optical viewfinder; you frame your photos using the screen. The USB, charging and TV jacks have generally been relegated to a docking stand that you have to remember to pack. You get manual control over ISO (light sensitivity), white balance (color cast) and exposure, but you can’t dial up a shutter speed or aperture setting. Zooming is limited to 3x.

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Grant W. Laird, Jr.
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Whoa!

I knew that many media are covering up one of the greatest secret – sunshine is good for you! At least, get some sunshine reach your body regularly to keep yourself feeling good plus possibly prevent cancer according to the article.

No one is suggesting that people fry on a beach. But many scientists believe that “safe sun” — 15 minutes or so a few times a week without sunscreen — is not only possible but helpful to health.

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Grant W. Laird, Jr.
http://blog.grantlairdjr.com

According to Wired.com article “How Star Wars changed the world,” you wouldn’t believe how much it impact world in 80’s and beyond.

Even after reading this article, I finally had chance to watch bonus material version DVD from Star Wars Trilogy. (It comes with Episode IV, V & VI) I was amazed how difficult it is to build one of the greatest movies in 1977 when technology is very limited.

If you get chance to look at “How Star Wars changed the World,” picture (based from Wired magazine) – you will see all well-known name, video games, movies, all stuff since Star Wars movie begins. Take a look – click here to view.

I remember that my classmate and I went to theatre and watch this movie. After that, I fell in love with it even there’s no captions back then. I started collecting Star Wars figures, posters, trading cards, bed spreads, curtain, light saber, PJ, t-shirts, etc. Too bad, I don’t have any of these anymore after my parent had ugly custody battle and my mother sold them all at pawn shop.

Anyway, check out two good articles from Wired.com about George Lucas and his business.

* Life After Darth - Click here.
* The New Heart of the Empire - click here.
* Star Wars Trivia for fun - many of them discussed in bonus material DVD.

Grant W. Laird, Jr.
http://blog.grantlairdjr.com