Hey Mister, Mind Your Kids

The importance of the captioned utterance of annoyance is where you hear or say it.

When this was spoken, I was startled by the lady taking photos of her kid at a hotel swimming pool and aggreviated by the kids of the Mister who, rightly so, were left to kick, jump and run on the shallow side of the pool.

Naturally, the water splashed on her Canon P&S camera with the lens fully extended, uncovered in whatever way. I said "naturally" because that was a POOL! So the lady fretted and fussed about the children and hinted the Mister to stop'em to apparently no avail.

The Mister gave the lady an unfriendly glance and said and did nothing. There I was startled the unreasonable ego of her. A swimming pool is for swimming in the first place. She had probably no sense about this nor knowledge about the availability of some all-weather tough camera.

This brings us to a not-so-new-yet-not-so-old tough camera (forgive me, this is not a serious compact to be in line with this blog's theme): the Canon Powershot D10

This digital camera is engineered to endure almost wherever you go to produce the kind of awe-inspiring images that will earn your respect without fretting about water splashes and whatsoever. The PowerShot D10 and it is no ordinary digital camera is waterproof down to 33 feet (so the lady could have even dived to the pool bottom to shoot!), meaning suitable for even scuba diving, snorkeling or surfing.

Also it's freezeproof and can withstand extremes of temperature from 14-104°F, transcending the extreme sports of shooting next to a swimming pool to befit even snowboarding, mountaineering and more.

Then, it's shockproof for 4 feet!

This camera is recommended because partly of the inspiration from the lady's aggreviance, and partly of Canon's proven track records in its P&Ss. These special features are complemented by the DIGIC 4 sensor. So the IQ will be agreeable, to say the least.

Control-wise, there is no surprise, which is best for the general consumers. Main features of the D10 include:

-A selection of unique accessories available such as customized straps and interchangeable faceplates.

-DIGIC 4 Image Processor has evolved Face Detection Technology that tracks the faces of moving subjects and lets the shooter enter the frame seamlessly with the Face Detection Self-Timer.

-12.1 Megapixels, plus 3x Optical Zoom lens with Optical Image Stabilizer.

-Blink Detection alerts a shooter after a shot has been taken that a subject has closed eyes. (Does it work for fish? ...Hey, fish don't blink, idiot!)

-Smart AUTO intelligently selects the proper settings for the camera based on 18 predefined shooting situations.

Nevin asked me to write it light for the Saturday post. So here you are. And here goes a video review of the D10:

New Low Prices

The window shopping some hours ago has almost provoked my AgIDS illness. Just in case you’re in Hong Kong or are coming here, and have the money to burn (All in HK$/ body only): GX200 = $3,280 GRD2 = $3,380 LX3 = $3,180 G10 = $3,280 Prices are available form a gear shop on the 1st floor of the Mongkok Computer Centre. Besides these new low prices, I found that Wing Shing Photo (55-57Sai Yeung Choi St., MK Tel: 2396 6886/ 91-95 Fa Yuen St., MK Tel: 2396 6885) is offering a Sony A700 + Carl Zeiss Lens package for HK$9,980 (hopefully, a bargain will make it some hundreds cheaper).

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