{"id":10636,"date":"2013-10-06T11:04:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T16:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/wp\/?p=10636"},"modified":"2013-10-06T11:04:51","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T16:04:51","slug":"new-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/new-toy\/","title":{"rendered":"New toy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/geranium100613.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/geranium100613-1024x928.jpg\" alt=\"Geranium &quot;Rozanne&quot;\" width=\"640\" height=\"580\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10637\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/geranium100613-1024x928.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/geranium100613-300x272.jpg 300w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/geranium100613-330x300.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recently bought a new little go-everywhere camera, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhphotovideo.com\/c\/product\/936335-REG\/nikon_26361_coolpix_s3500_digital_camera.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nikon S3500<\/a>. The specifications are a bit silly: how often does anyone need 20 megapixels? I took it to the botanical garden yesterday to give it a workout. The pictures are very good overall but not utterly fantastic. (If you want ultimate image quality, you need a DSLR (or better) with a large sensor. (Or better yet, a view camera.) That requires real money.) The camera doesn&#8217;t record purples and violets accurately (a problem with every digital camera I&#8217;ve ever used), a nuisance but not a deal-breaker for a cheap camera. The surprise is that the &#8220;macro&#8221; mode actually is useful. The image above is cropped but is otherwise unaltered, and was taken hand-held. Right-click to see it at full size. The flower is about an inch across.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently bought a new little go-everywhere camera, a Nikon S3500. The specifications are a bit silly: how often does anyone need 20 megapixels? I took it to the botanical garden yesterday to give it a workout. The pictures are very good overall but not utterly fantastic. (If you want ultimate image quality, you need &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/new-toy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New toy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[673],"class_list":["post-10636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-gallery","tag-photo-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-2Ly","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}