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You guys get additional credit history for being particularly perceptive, since as a few of you have noticed, we got a new camera (we weren’t paid or perked, we just bought it with our own benjamins for reasons I’m about to explain).

It’s a Nikon 3200 that we purchased on Amazon (here’s an affiliate link to the exact same design we bought) – basically the latest version of our previous DSLR, the Nikon 3000 that we got back in early 2010. The reason for the upgrade? Well, let’s just state the resident klutz around right here (that’s me) lastly klutz-ed it up a bit as well much for our bad camera to handle. Can I get a womp womp?

It really occurred back when I was working on the deck. I was cutting my stairway stringers as well as in a heat/sawdust induced haze, didn’t recognize that I had set the camera down on the other end of my 2 x 10 board. long story short, the vibrations of the saw subtly shook the board up until the camera shimmied right off the edge as well as onto the concrete (I was looking down at my cut, so I was totally surprised by this turn of events). Here, enable me to reenact it for you.
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It was not my finest moment. In truth it was up there with failing inspection when I had to tell Sherry the camera had fallen on the ground since of some dumb cutting incident.

This is not the very first time this camera has been dropped. thinking about the activities that we photograph on a regular basis (we’ve taken about 300 pictures a week for the past 2+ years with this guy, which adds as much as over 39,000 photos!), it’s had its fair share of bumps, drops, paint splats, dirt smears, as well as sawdust-ings. however I assumption this specific incident was as well much for it to handle as well as suddenly we might only take photos in handbook focus mode. Awesome. just kidding, it stunk (auto focus is amazingly practical for us since we commonly grab pics of things in action- like Clara & Burger, as well as don’t have time to auto focus each time).

I called our regional camera shop as well as discovered they’d have to send it off to Nikon to repair work it. as well as presuming it’s a fixable issue, our max expense would be about $150. Not as well bad… except that it’d take 6-8 weeks to complete. as well as since we quickly realized we couldn’t make it through (aka: blog) for two months without a camera, we believed about:

renting a camera while ours got fixed (it turns out that renting one for two months would have expense more than just buying a new one)

getting a affordable point & shoot camera for the next few months (but we decided that cheaping out on a just-for-now camera would be money down the drain, instead of putting it towards something we’d truly want, like an updated DSLR with more capabilities)

So eventually we took it as a indication from above that we should get ourselves a new one after over two as well as a half years of faithful utilize of our older one. We’re still going to get the old one fixed though, just to always have a backup DSLR on hand (so that if we should ever break the new one we won’t feel the exact same we-have-a-blog-and-can’t-be-without-a-camera-for-two-months pressure to buy yet one more camera ever again). Hooray.

We decided to stick with Nikon (we’ve been extremely happy with our very first DSLR) as well as go with something in the D3000 series (since we weren’t looking to relearn whatever as well as it meant the 50mm lens we bought last summertime would still work on our new camera). Of program our new camera wasn’t affordable (we got it for $699 on Amazon – it was about $250 more than our previous one) however at this point we’re looking at it as a necessary business expense. as well as the D3200 offered some nice enhancements – like much better shooting in low light, a more precise auto white balance, as well as my favorite: HD video (hence the enhancement a few of you have noticed in our latest videos).

Yep, the picture above is a video screenshot, not a still picture (which is a significant enhancement from our flip cam’s capabilities) as well as it gets me all hot as well as bothered. as well as not just since of my attractive wife.

We’re still getting the hang of shooting video with a DSLR. It does some things much much better than our old FlipHD – like more true-to-life color as well as a wider lens – however we’re still working on mastering the audio as well as autofocus capabilities, so we’re barely professionals rather yet. however I really shot a bit side-by-side comparison just to see precisely exactly how the two video cameras stacked up. exactly how did I achieve this bit accomplishment of geekery? It looked something such as this – Nikon in one hand, flip in the other.

And here’s what the video appeared like when I edited them together:

So as much as we’re excited by the new features, we’re still definitely getting the hang of it. however general we’re truly happy withthe new camera. right here are a few of the pictures we took (all without white-balancing or fretting about illumination like we did with our prior camera):

It’s definitely a excellent upgrade for our blog (hooray for less time spent white balancing as well as fretting about low-light pictures – as well as of program upgraded wider-angle videos are a huge plus) as well as it’s likewise a nice bit upgrade for our household (we shoot a ton of pictures & videos of Clara as well as Burger). It almost makes that whole John-dropped-and-broke-something-again thing seem like a great thing. right Sherry?

Psst- On one more subject entirely, Sherry wishes to talk about the finale of Bachelor Pad. So to anyone who saw it… what did you think? Honestly, I desire I had secretly taped Sherry’s reaction.

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