{"id":588,"date":"2003-09-29T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-29T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bibik.org\/blog\/?p=588"},"modified":"2003-09-29T16:23:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-29T23:23:00","slug":"588","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/2003\/09\/29\/588\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone recently asked me to suggest a digital camera to these specifications:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<\/p>\n<li>Small\/compact<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<li>Expandable memory (at least up to 512 MB)<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<li>3x optical zoom<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<li>4 megapixels<br \/>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My suggestion turned out to be for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powershot.com\/powershot2\/s400\/index.html\">Canon PowerShot S400<\/a>.  After looking around for cameras, I realized that the S400 is smaller and has better resolution than my S30 and costs the same price new.  Silly technology improvements.<\/p>\n<p>While whale watching, I encountered the only problem I have with my camera:  weak optical zoom.  Considering that the optical zoom on my S30 is only 3x and very few consumer-level digital cameras offer anything greater, I think I will have to stick with it for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone recently asked me to suggest a digital camera to these specifications: Small\/compact Expandable memory (at least up to 512 MB) 3x optical zoom 4 megapixels My suggestion turned out to be for the Canon PowerShot S400. After looking around for cameras, I realized that the S400 is smaller and has better resolution than my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}