I took some photos with my digicam during the idle time of last Wednesday's film shooting. Hm, projecting slides on people really worked well, let's hope the 500ASA film reacts as well as my digicam did.¶

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Via 990000, the Sony Qualia 016, the deluxe digicam. Wow, even though Sony are hardware-crippling scum (but who isn't these days?), this camera is the kind of thing where I'd spend $3200 right away if I was rich and already had a good video camera, a good computer, a good SLR... hm you get the idea. Still, even if it is a stupidly overpriced 2 megapixel camera, it has something that makes you long for it: it comes in a suitcase together with a lot of handy parts such as other lenses, viewers, battery packs, etc. So, it seems like, even if it has a price, Sony took a tiny step in the right direction: most video and photo cameras sold nowdays are designed to last only a couple of years before they start malfunctioning all the time (like my 2.3MP Fuji) and they stop releasing drivers for newer OSes, so it makes no sense to buy a bunch of extras that won't work with a new camera. Instead, in the golden age of robust 35mm SLRs, a photo camera could last for 30 years or more and they were relatively standartized, so you could purchase lots of addons if you were serious about photography, such as new lenses, filters, remotes, flashes, panoramic adapters, etc. Nowdays you have to buy ultra-expensive digital SLRs if you want a small portion of such extendability, so Sony, please take note: make affordable digital video and photo cameras that last long enough and are extendable (try to get together with JVC, Panasonic and Fuji and agree on some standards), and then release all kinds of useless lenses, filter packs, bigger-size viewers, external flashes, etc. that are the kind of stuff people buy. And stop selling those ridiculously small video cameras nonsense, people can't hold them properly to make stable shots and you can't even screw in a filter adapter or a wide-angle lens.¶

The footy season is over, so all those anti-popular intellectuals who want football out of this weblog can have a break for the next couple of months. Anyway, it ended nicely, as FC Porto won the Portuguese Cup against União de Leiria with a 1-0 victory (again Derlei scored the decisive goal), thus becoming the fifth club in Europe (and first portuguese) ever to win an european competition and both main domestic competitions. FC Porto is elite. Which is nice. Still, I didn't watch the match as I was really busy both finishing an essay and studying for this morning's Sociology exam (which went so-so by the way), but it seems that the last few minutes of the game were quite troublesome for Porto. Anyway, we won, we are elite, we feel nice and Benfica and Sporting fans don't.¶