{"id":104,"date":"2008-03-16T23:49:29","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T23:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2008\/03\/16\/new-toys\/"},"modified":"2011-11-04T00:15:58","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T05:15:58","slug":"new-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2008\/03\/16\/new-toys\/","title":{"rendered":"New Toys!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/gallery\/misc\/toys.jpg\" alt=\"The Canon HV20 and the S5 IS\" border=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I saved up and finally got some new equipment and software to replace some of my aging tools. I had been looking at upgrding to a HD camcorder for some time but waiting until the formats and prices settled down. So after nearly a year of vacillating back and forth, I took the plunge. I broke down and got the Canon HV20 that I reviewed in <a title=\"Canon HV20 vs. the HV30 review\" href=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2008\/01\/14\/upgrading-to-high-def-the-canon-hv20-or-hv30\/\">one of earlier posts<\/a>, as well as the Canon S5 IS digital still camera.<\/p>\n<p>I got the new camera in anticipation for the summer and some new shorts that I want shoot. I picked up both for under a grand from B&amp;H Photo. Both are midrange cameras but take awesome pictures. I went with the HV20 over the newer HV30 because the black body and 30p mode doesn&#8217;t justify the extra 300 buck cost. I got the Powershot because I wanted a point and shoot camera with the ability to go manual as I get my photography chops back. Plus the Powershot takes awesome fullscreen (640&#215;480 at 30fps) video for a still camera. The audio is excellent too. I purchased a big 8gb memory chip for under 40 bucks to store my footage. Since I mostly shoot content for the web, I won&#8217;t even need to carry my camcorder all the time since the S5 IS can do both movies and stills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saved up and finally got some new equipment and software to replace some of my aging tools. I had been looking at upgrding to a HD camcorder for some time but waiting until the formats and prices settled down. So after nearly a year of vacillating back and forth, I took the plunge. I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2008\/03\/16\/new-toys\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Toys!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18,2],"tags":[130,131,132,133,134],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-video","category-new-media","category-technology","tag-canon","tag-hv20","tag-hv30","tag-powershot","tag-s5-is"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1695,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/1695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}