All I can say is Wow. This thing is such a pleasure to use. Right off the bat, the following things are worth the upgrade:
So far I’ve only shot it with my 50mm f/1.8 lens.
I’m tired of the soft photos from the D200, even with sharpening cranked up to the max. The pics out of SWL’s D40 last weekend had more sharpness and pop. Great color. Screw it. I put my D200 up on eBay, renewed my expired Craigslist listing and moved it from ocala.craigslist.org to tampa.craigslist.org. I want the hot color of at least the D40 and the dynamic range (ADR) of the D300. That’s the D90.
UPS just dropped off my 50mm lens. I used to own one of these and sold it for $90. Should have kept it. Since I haven’t sold my 35mm f/2 yet, I ordered a UV filter just now.
This emailed article which I received today inspired me to do this. These guys are doing something that really makes sense and I support all most or all of the campaigns of theirs that I’ve read.
I’m sick of waiting for the flash to recycle taking pictures with my 18-70mm Nikkor indoors. We lost so many pictures at a recent Christmas party at Eugenio’s house this way. So I just ordered a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF D from Amazon for $109.99. I used to own one but sold it for $90 after I had my fun playing with it (manual focus only) on my D40.
My iPod touch arrived about ten minutes ago. I expected it after 6pm tonight as that’s when UPS usually delivers here. So this was a pleasant surprise.
My F4i Helibars came USPS today — from the U.K. Yay!
I’ve got 46 free apps already downloaded from the App store, just waiting to be synchronized. It arrives tomorrow. Delayed by UPS for some reason, status “Rescheduled”.
Based on this very useful Ken Rockwell article I read a long time ago and reskimmed today since I just bought an iPod touch, I changed my CD rip (Import) iTunes settings from MP3 at 160kbps to AAC at 128kbps with Variable Bitrate Encoding (VBR, sic) enabled. I hope I don’t have any trouble (skips or who knows what else) running these on my 40GB iPod (monochrome) or my 4GB iPod mini.
I’ve been easing into the idea of getting an iPod touch for the following main uses
– Portable calendar (read/write)
– Portable address book (read/write)
– Portable email
– Portable web browsing. In house and on trips away from home, etc.
– Music playing (not very important to me since I have two iPods already)
Better for me than one of Nokia’s n700- or n800-series devices.
And I just hate to use my Treo for address lookups and calendaring. The screen is just too small. And no wifi. Thanks for nothing, Palm. I’m very disappointed with Treos’ historic lack of wifi.
It’s important to me that it have great syncing with my OS X iCal and Address Book apps, which I fully expect to be the case.
My wife supported me when I mentioned it today and pushed me to get one. She actually pushed me to get the 32GB version so I don’t need to upgrade later, but the difference in price (8GB $230, 16GB $299, 32GB $399) was too much for me. I wanted to keep the price around two hundred bucks. A shopping site search had a legitimate seller with an unexpectedly low price: PCConnection had the iPod touch 8GB 2nd Gen (the latest) for $189.99! Wow! I bought one immediately.
