Here in Denmark our daughter gave us an early Christmas present a month
early; the box contained some wool and a pattern for making baby clothes.
Our first grandchild was on the way! That prompted us to buy ourselves a
Christmas present consisting of a digital video camera holding a 30GB hard
drive. So now I have also had to order a package containing Adobe Premiere
Elements 3.0 for movie editing and Elements 5.0 for our still photos.
Our Christmas was quite traditiional with a large family gathering on
Christmas Eve, where we ate a couple of ducks, roast pork, red cabbage,
sugar-browned potatoes and waldorf salad, followed by ris alamande, a sort
of fancy rice pudding containing a lot of cream, and an almond which gave a
prize. Then we danced round the Christmas tree (live candles on the tree)
singing Christmas songs. One of the favourite Danish christmas song ends
with the lines 'Christmas lasts a long time, and it costs a lot of money';
written a long time ago, so nothing changes... Then we shared the presents
out.
On Christmas day we had a somewhat smaller lunch with a big turkey, to
follow a bit of British/ Canadian tradition.
We hope that everyone on the list had a good Christmas too; and best wishes
for the New Year. I go on mandatory pension at the end of February when I
reach 65, so I should have more time for photography at last. The last two
years have been extremely busy and stressful workwise, so I am looking
forward to a break!
Best wishes, Roger Key
>From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [OM] Re: What I did (am doing) on my holidays (was: The new
>digital discourse)
>Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 03:28:02 -0800
>
>Johan Malmstrom wrote:
> > <snip>
> > The two biggest surprises where that Ida will have to new cousins
> > before next Christmas. Both Annas sister and her brother will have a
> > kid with their respective wives.
> >
>Excellent! Won't be long before you need a video camera too. I just put
>my grandaughter's term end dance and drama ( the three little pigs!)
>performances on DVD for their parents and other grandparents. At 5 and 6
>years of age, the performances are not too pro ;-) , but very enjoyable.
>An hour goes by quickly when watching them.
>
>I won't say video is 'better' than stills, but for young children, it
>captures a lot that is not in stills. I missed some opportunities when
>my huge, old Hi-8 VTR mysteriously didn't work when it came back from
>loan to their father. But my hand was forced when Sony discontinued what
>appears to be the last of a series of combination Hi-8 and Digital-8
>cameras. I found one NIB on the 'Bay.
>
>For someone like me with old Hi-8 tapes and nothing to play them with,
>the camera will both play them and convert them to digital for download
>to a computer. It also acts as an A/V A to D converter for any other
>sources on a pass through basis. A bit bulky compared to DV format
>cameras, but the other features make it worth it for me and the image
>quality is the same.
>
>The anti-shake is certainly a vast improvement over my old camera, which
>had none, and 20x optical zoom is great.
> > Ohh, and Ida has picked up the mju-2 and have started to use it.
> >
>Excellent again!
>
>Moose
>
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