A picture is worth $579 + tax + shipping...

This entry is dedicated to my little cousin who is studying for the BAR EXAM and called me tonight feeling all stressed out. He's got the BAR and his wedding in August. Don't worry, man... the strippers are on their way. YEAH, BABY YEAH!

Now back to the good stuff.

Thanks to all my friends and of course my wife... I was able to purchase my camera (a Canon G6) for my birthday. $579 at Costo with tons of extras!

I've been playing around with it for the past couple of days and finally put it to the test.

I've already found shooting at a higher ISO is much better than the Canon G2 so that's good. Less 'noise' compared to the ISO 400 pictures I took a few months ago. There's some nuiances with the camera that I have to get use to but so far, the upgrades to this camera are very noticable.

Here are some pics I was able to shoot today and yesterday to test the camera.

A test on SUPER MACRO TV:1/20, AV:2.5 no Tripod. (This is Jake's eye. I told him to stay really still. It took like ten shots before I finally got one to focus.)


Around 5:00 PM - TV:1/640, AV:2.8 (this was yesterday after school right after he was given time out with five other kids for pulling leaves off a tree)


Around 3:00 PM indoors w/tripod - TV:1/30, AV:2.8 ISO 400 WB: Tungsten (This was before I made a deal with him that I'd only take two more pictures. I squeezed in several to his dismay.)


Around 3:00 PM indoors w/tripod - TV:1/6, AV2.8 ISO 50 (I barely got him to look at the camera. His look doesn't represent his feelings of... CAN WE PLAY SOCCER NOW PAPA!!!!!!! PLEAAASEEE!!!!)


Picture quality SEEMS better than the G2. It's hard to tell right now until I do more experimentation.

On a side note... Jake did a face plant on the carpet while playing soccer with me inside the house. He looked up with a paintful look but the fall totally looked funny. I mean, what face plant doesn't? So I couldn't hold it in and I risked the 'don't laugh at me' response when I bellied out in laughter.

His teary eyes looked up at me as I laughed and he sucked it up like NORMAL... and he laughed harder than I did. It was almost like we couldn't stop.

Then I kicked the ball and it smacked him in the face and we rolled on the floor laughing once again.

It's nice to know he's got it back after the whole Universal Stuidos incident.

Oh... one more picture...

TV:1/25,AV:2.2 Exp Comp +1/3

I sent this through PHOTOSHOP just to do some B&W with some extra compensation settings.

Today I was able to add a scene to my first act. In between writing and editing I was able to feed the kids cereal, cut up TWO HUGE BANANAS, change a dirty diaper and make coffee. Count that... that's five differen things in an hour that I did WHILE I wrote. Mind you - this is 7:00 AM. Donna was still asleep because she was studying for boards till late. We got her up around eight-ish.

There's a lot of commotion that goes on behind me while I write...

The kids were supposed to be putting away their blocks (WITHOUT THROWING THEM IN LIKE BASKETBALLS). The television was on and Bella decided it was time to play with Elmo. Jake was still sleepy as this is still early in the morning.

So I thought i'd share a few seconds of it... captured with the Canon G6...

Transfered to a .mov file (which isn't that good)


For a true capture from the camera use the following links:
If that doesn't work download it here: "Kids Playing" (an AVI file)

Or try to watch it here: "Kids Playing Webpage" (an AVI file)

OR try this mp4 file: "Kids Playing mp4 file