This morning, I was trying in vain to finish my epic Raw Vegan Week in Review post along with my equally epic All the Dead Animals I Ate After Raw Vegan Week post. Needing to snap a couple pictures for the post, I grabbed my camera bag.
Now, the Chomple camera bag is not like a normal camera bag. A real camera bag would contain a Canon 7D or 5D Mark II along with a bunch of nice L-glass (Chomple fans, remember, Christmas is coming up! LOL). My camera bag is actually a bag of cameras.
The one camera that isn't forced into the squalor of the camera bag is my Canon SX200IS. This little monster produces eye popping pictures with the ease of a Fisher-Price camera (if you have liked any picture I have taken in the last month, it was from this camera). Additionally, it has full manual controls, which is a complete godsend in restaurants. No camera is really smart enough to successfully figure out the lighting conditions in most restaurants (those of you about to post pictures on here from the inside of a weirdly lit restaurant that were taken in Full Auto mode... don't bother. You were lucky, and that's only if your picture is actually good).
In the camera bag itself you will find a six year old Kodak CX6330. I carry it around because it actually has a pretty great (and foolproof) macro mode. At group dinners, this is the camera that I pass around so those that want to can take pictures of their meals. Believe me when I tell you... this three (yes, three) megapixel dinosaur does wonders with food.
Also floating around the camera bag is a Sony Webbie HD. I keep it around for when I need to shoot 1080p low motion video, like my nephew playing sudoku. If I need to shoot video I will usually opt for the Canon unless I need 1080p.
And then there's the Mustek. The most useless camera on Earth.
The Mustek MDC4000 arrived as one of the items in a woot.com Bag of Crap (google it!). So I paid approximately two dollars for this camera. That's two dollars wasted.
This is the front of the camera. Note the sticker showing off the very leet features of this digital monstrosity. Digital camcorder! 4x digital zoom!!!!!
The view from the back. Note the camera's failed attempt at picture playback on the LCD. Also note the extremely ergonomic shape and button layout. Ooh la la!
The top. Chromed plastic power and shutter release. And check it out... that concrete grey color is actually paint or something... the real color of the camera is dull metal. I guess the paint has been rubbing off on the other cameras.
Ok, so now you're familiar with the worst camera I've ever owned (and that includes a piece of crap Advantix that I had in college). What do the pictures look like?
A day of Yod's food life, as captured by the greatest camera of them all: The Mustek MDC4000.
Kelly Cline, stop reading here. These pictures will probably decalibrate your eyes and mess up your next week's worth of shoots.
These are some of the drinks I had this morning. Note the... well, everything. AWB is especially awesome in this picture, as I really enjoy everything having a tinge of Incredible Hulk green.
This camera supposedly has a macro mode, so I turned it on and took a picture of my vegetable soup.
For lunch, we headed to my favorite Mongolian BBQ place, Sizzle. Here is the front of the buffet where you get your meat and veg. Probably the best picture the Mustek crapped out today. Mind you, this picture was taken with blazing daylight streaming in. It looks like a cave in there.
The guys grilling my food. Apparently a guy slowly rotating around a grill is too much motion for the Mustek.
Here's our table full of food. Can't make out what we were eating? I can't either.
After work we headed to Grocery Outlet to do some shopping. This is Girlfriend Actual trying out the reindeer horns. Check out the auto white balance performance.
They have some great name brands at Grocery Outlet. I found this tag on a $20 fleece.
Really super healthy cereal.
This drink is big pimpin.
No spa uses 1-ply toilet paper.
Finally, I was tempted by this Ultimate Storage Set. Does it come with the hot Natalie Imbruglia clone? I'm guessing not. Boo.
