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01-19-2003, 02:55 PM	#1
oneeyesquare One kiss away Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 741	Gonna be hard to take stealth pictures!!! Took one of my mother-in-law today during church. Def. gonna lose that ability with the NZ....The other thing that concerns me is taking pictures via the timer. Is the Cf card end flat enough to set on a flat surface and have it stand up securely? I suppose you could open it up and face it towards where you want to be. The camera end should be elevated enough so you're not shooting the ceiling. The flash will be nice. I wanted to take a pic of the dog sleeping last night but it was to dark in the room. Some tradeoffs with the bigger camera.... I wonder if they can ever achieve the same resolution with an NR/NX type rotating lense? __________________ Single file line please,ladies...

01-19-2003, 03:01 PM	#2
aaronrkelly Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Moravia, IA Posts: 465	Ya, stealth pictures - no one is gonna notice the bright flash coming from the big black brick thing.....he he :-) just had to make a brick joke, sorry. __________________ Aaron R Kelly aaronrkelly@hotmail.com

01-19-2003, 03:31 PM	#3
LITTLESIX Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: East Coast/US Posts: 383	we could always make you a deal - you lay off the brick jokes, and we won't start on the Iowa jokes __________________ The opinion expressed is solely my point of view, unless it gets me into trouble. If that's the case, then I don't know who's it is... :)

01-19-2003, 06:01 PM	#4
oneeyesquare One kiss away Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 741	. __________________ Single file line please,ladies...

01-19-2003, 07:39 PM	#5
fireants22 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: japan Posts: 164	lilSIX>: Just wondering.....being canadian, i dont know any Iowa jokes (i know plenty canadian)..can you give me an example?

01-19-2003, 08:32 PM

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Originally posted by aaronrkelly
Ya, stealth pictures - no one is gonna notice the bright flash coming from the big black brick thing.....

heh heh heh. That made me chuckle . . .

Are Iowa jokes similar to West Virginia jokes??

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01-19-2003, 08:45 PM	#7
Medcat99 Registered User Join Date: May 2002 Location: Phoenix, Az Posts: 348	Funny jokes, but seriously, if the issue of being stealth is related only to the flash, I'm sure Sony would include a way to turn it off, right? If nothing else, it would save battery power if you don't need a flash all the time. Otherwise, I'm sure someone will design a patch.

01-19-2003, 09:02 PM	#8
LITTLESIX Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: East Coast/US Posts: 383	1. They do have a way of turning the flash off. 2. IOWA=Idiots Out Wandering Around I would feel bad about that joke, expect for the fact that my girlfriend's mother told me that. She lives in Atlantic, Iowa __________________ The opinion expressed is solely my point of view, unless it gets me into trouble. If that's the case, then I don't know who's it is... :)

01-19-2003, 09:04 PM	#9
LITTLESIX Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: East Coast/US Posts: 383	PS: I promise I won't tell any more of them. Unless I'm forced to __________________ The opinion expressed is solely my point of view, unless it gets me into trouble. If that's the case, then I don't know who's it is... :)

01-19-2003, 09:50 PM	#10
oneeyesquare One kiss away Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 741	Figgered they'd include a flash turnoff. Pretty standard camera feature. I'm thinkin more of how you have to hold it to take a pic plus that big ol lense staring at your subject!!! Iowa, West Virginia , tell em all!!!! Got any Michigan ones??? __________________ Single file line please,ladies...

01-19-2003, 10:54 PM	#11
Medcat99 Registered User Join Date: May 2002 Location: Phoenix, Az Posts: 348	Honestly, I don't think that the lens is all that identifiable to the clie-uninformed. You can probably still point this device at someone without them having a clue what your are doing.

01-20-2003, 04:27 AM	#12
LITTLESIX Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: East Coast/US Posts: 383	Agreed. I've practically put the NX right up in peoples faces and they've not paid attention. Add to that, I'll be curious to see what entries we get by way of cases for the NZ __________________ The opinion expressed is solely my point of view, unless it gets me into trouble. If that's the case, then I don't know who's it is... :)

01-20-2003, 07:30 AM	#13
oneeyesquare One kiss away Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 741	I think that the 90 degree angle needed to take a pic plus the added lense size will tip people off. With my NX, I would flip up the lid and act like I was writing something down. Perfect cover. I could even roll the lip of my cheap case out of the way and shoot pics from my case. I'm gonna miss the rotating camera the most, I think. Although I've always been very nervous about getting dirt in the lense when I roll it around. I wish someone had taken some pics of the NZ lens cover retracted/unretracted... __________________ Single file line please,ladies...

01-20-2003, 08:20 AM	#14
LITTLESIX Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: East Coast/US Posts: 383	http://sonyelectronics.sonystyle.com/micros/clie/ Check the link for the NZ, oneeye. It looks like there is two positions; lens out the back - lens out the front without a middleground. I'm anxious to get my hands physically one one machine to see what the rotation actually feels and looks like. As to the stealth, where there's a will, there's a way __________________ The opinion expressed is solely my point of view, unless it gets me into trouble. If that's the case, then I don't know who's it is... :)

01-20-2003, 08:45 AM	#15
OcellNuri 20gigs of Karma Join Date: May 2002 Location: Raleigh, NC, USA Posts: 1,697	How about someone puts out a case with assorted branches and leaves on it. Cammo-mesh and stuff like that. Looks like there may be a market for the cloaking CF card afterall.... __________________ Ocell.Blog: Organisms Meet Machinery Ocell.Photo