{"id":711,"date":"2007-05-08T18:27:16","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T01:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=711"},"modified":"2007-05-08T18:27:16","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T01:27:16","slug":"new-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=711","title":{"rendered":"New Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" id=\"image710\" alt=\"Nina\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/dsc00006a.jpg?w=604&#038;ssl=1\" \/>I now have a new digital Single Lens Reflex camera. After a lot of looking and investigation, I finally decided to buy the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sonystyle.com\/is-bin\/_wbr+target=_blank_INTERSHOP.enfinity\/eCS\/Store\/en\/-\/USD\/SY_BrowseCatalog-Start?CategoryName=dcc_DIDigitalCameras_style_dslr&#038;Dept=cameras\">Sony A100 digital SLR<\/a>. The deciding factor was that the Sony takes the lenses I already have. About a year ago, Minolta sold their camera divisions to Sony. The A100 is Sony&#8217;s first camera using the Minolta technology plus their own technology. The three lenses I already have fit the camera very nicely and all work correctly. That meant I only needed to buy the camera body and the Sony had sufficient capability for what I use a digital SLR for. I checked several websites and then went downtown to the local Inkley&#8217;s store. They were willing to come within about $40 of what the online price was and having access to their support made the deal. I took a few test pictures, but this one is the first real picture taken with the new camera. It&#8217;s so nice to be back in the digital world again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I now have a new digital Single Lens Reflex camera. After a lot of looking and investigation, I finally decided to buy the Sony A100 digital SLR. The deciding factor was that the Sony takes the lenses I already have. About a year ago, Minolta sold their camera divisions to Sony. The A100 is Sony&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=711\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Camera<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnKxs-bt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}