{"id":874,"date":"2011-12-18T12:17:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T17:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dennygibson.com\/blog\/?p=874"},"modified":"2013-01-07T17:46:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T22:46:39","slug":"my-gear-chapter-4canon-powershot-a20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/my-gear-chapter-4canon-powershot-a20\/","title":{"rendered":"My Gear &#8211; Chapter 4<br>Canon PowerShot A20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-875\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Canon A20\" alt=\"Canon A20\" src=\"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/\/\/\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/canona20.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/canona20.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/canona20-150x119.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>As I looked back over my travel gadget purchases, it was immediately obvious that many preceded a major trip. The idea of a long lived website, rather than a one trip experiment, started to form as I got serious about retracing a 1920 Florida trip <span style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px;\" data-mce-mark=\"1\">my great-grandparents had made. P<\/span>urchases were made during the summer of 2001 in anticipation of making the trip in late August. The first was a real upgrade in the camera department.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the improvement over the Agfa came from a significant increase in price but a lot more came from two years of progress. Even with\u00a0more than a hundred dollars off the $500 MSRP,\u00a0the Canon PowerShot A20 cost over twice what I&#8217;d paid for the Agfa &#8212; $384 vs. $186 &#8212; but I now had a real camera. It\u00a0had auto focus, 3X zoom, and 1.92 effective mega-pixels plus, apparently,\u00a00.18 ineffective ones. This\u00a0was good enough to convince me that I didn&#8217;t have to carry my film camera everywhere but not good enough to make me want to get rid of it. Digital was\u00a0clearly the only way to feed a website but film was still the way to go for good sharp prints.<\/p>\n<p>I believe it was about this time that a friend asked me to recommend a good digital camera and I answered that I couldn&#8217;t. There were some very good digital cameras being made but they cost thousands not hundreds of dollars. Nikon&#8217;s first digital\u00a0SLR, the D1, came out in 1999. The 2.6 mega-pixel wonder retailed for $5580 &#8212; body only. The\u00a0D1X came on the market in early 2001 at about the same time as the\u00a0A20. With\u00a0what is now a familiar characteristic of electronics, resolution, 5.4 megapixels, was up and price, $5350, was down.\u00a0These were professional quality cameras with\u00a0prices that could only be justified by professionals needing instant product. For an amatuer\u00a0convinced he needed instant product\u00a0to feed a website, even the few hundred dollar price of the little Canon wasn&#8217;t easy to justify. Of course, if financial justification was a real factor in any of this, there wouldn&#8217;t even be a website to feed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p1WE0S-6E\">My Gear &#8211; Chapter 3 &#8212; Garmin GPS III Plus<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I looked back over my travel gadget purchases, it was immediately obvious that many preceded a major trip. 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