Watch and Camera
Well, that’s the watch I ended up getting. It was only a $28 at Target, so at least it didn’t really cost much. I’m still not quite sure what I think of it — although I do know that the compass band-like thing in the top of the frame needs to be removed — but it is only going to be use for this trip and possibly times when I’m in areas where there is no cell phone reception. It should work for now…
Also, when I swung Camera Mart in Pontiac to get some lens cleaning things today, I found out something interesting. First off, their single-lens Nikon D70s is $1189, which is just below the price Amazon and Adorama and such have it for. Second, on the weekend before Thanksgiving they are having some sort of promotional special where they will cover the sales tax of such a purchase. That means that I could get the camera for a decent price from a local high-end camera shop, tax free, and without paying shipping. Not a bad deal, I don’t think.
I’m wondering if this would be the time for me to get a DSLR finally. While I will be out of town that weekend, the person I spoke with said I could order by phone and get the same price, so maybe I could ask them to just hold it for me until I got back.
Hmm… It’d be really swell… Well, at least I’ve got the watch / alarm taken care of.
UPDATE: Or hell, maybe it’d be more worthwhile to just get the body and this 18mm – 200mm lens? That’s a 35mm equiv. of 27mm – 300mm (11x) which would be an ideal all-around lens. Couple that with a nice macro lens, and I’d probably be all set.
INDIGLO!
Heh.
< hangs head >
Yes.
I feel like I’m in Middle School. I really would have liked something nicer, but 1) the Somerset (read: closest by 30 miles) Fossil store didn’t have the S+ARCK watches in stock, and 2) $30 is a lot easier on the wallet.
the watch looks kinda cool
a friend of mine likes to have a watch on her, but doesn’t like it on her wrist. she uses a trigger snap keyfob, not unlike this one, with the watchband’s pin through the loop where the keychain goes through, and she’d clip the trigger snap end on to a belt loop and/or lay it on the desk near her when she was working. sorta like a pocket watch, but not on a chain that’ll get caught on things.
Nikon lenses make me shiver.
In a fantastic way.
I loooooooove nikon lenses. I love nikon. period. All though I really like the canon digital I use at work theyre camera bodies dot have the oomph.
gah!
manual focus!
get me one too!
Heee!
For what it’s worth, I was looking at Adorama later and it seems that you can get a D70s + Lexar Pro 80x 1GB card for the same price. I’m really, really tempted to finally get one…
It’s more tempting than it should be.
Hrm. Now I’m going to go price out a D70s body with that lens I linked to and some sort of macro lens.
Also, can you see a reason not to get a cheaper completely manual macro lens? Most macro work isn’t time sensitive… Although I suppose that for grabbing close-ups of cooking food and and such it might be good to be able to use autofocus.
By the way, have you seen the D200?