{"id":6502,"date":"2015-03-18T20:18:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T03:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/03\/18\/new-pocket-camera\/"},"modified":"2015-03-18T20:18:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T03:18:20","slug":"new-pocket-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/03\/18\/new-pocket-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"New Pocket Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/elph.jpg' title='ELPH 140 IS'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/elph.jpg' alt='ELPH 140 IS' width='350' class='right' \/><\/a>I don&#8217;t have a smartphone with a fancy camera built in and my flip phone takes such lousy images and is compounded by the problem of not being able to directly upload them to the computer. I also don&#8217;t like to necessarily lug the big camera along everywhere I go, so I like to have a pocket camera with me most of the time.<\/p>\n<p>I had a Canon A1400IS Power Shot for a couple of years, but a few weeks ago I dropped it for the third or fourth time and this time it woke up dead. That prompted me to get on-line for a replacement. I finally settled on this <a href=\"http:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00I58LXVY\/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&#038;psc=1\">ELPH 140 IS Power Shot<\/a> which is actually smaller than the one I dropped. It has all of the same features except for an optical viewfinder. I found the viewfinder to be better than the 2.5 inch LCD in sunlight, but I will have to work around that. The other item that I have to work around is the fact that this camera uses a small lithium ion battery rather than the two rechargeable AA cells that I used in the old camera. <\/p>\n<p>The ELPH takes fair pictures, is point and shoot and fits nicely in the &#8216;technology pouch&#8217; of my cargo pants or shorts as did it&#8217;s predecessor. If you click on the link and see a price of $129, I actually paid $40 less for mine. Click on the image above to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have a smartphone with a fancy camera built in and my flip phone takes such lousy images and is compounded by the problem of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-technology-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}