Free Accessories with Flip Mino Camcorders

Amazon is having a limited time offer to get free accessories with the new Flip Mino HD. You can get two free accessories with the MinoHD, one free accessory with the Mino, or snap up the white 30-minute Ultra for the amazing low price of only $69 (that’s half price!).

The 30-minute Flip Ultra is the perfect companion for bloggers to use to add videos to their daily blogging. You can catch your pets or your kids acting silly, or you might just catch someone doing something weird at the grocery store, or better yet you can start a vlog and record your daily posts on the fly. You’ll love the portability and the easy to use functions.

Editing Photos in Picnic

I can edit graphics no problem in Macromedia Fireworks, and sometimes I’ll use Gimp …. can’t seem to get the hang of using Photoshop as much though. Anyhow, photograph editing always sort of stumps me a little. I love my flickr account and recently they added the ability to use Picnik right from your flickr page. Very cool, and I think very smart move for flickr. I’ve been playing around with it a little when I add photos to my account.

BEFORE:

AFTER:

So, how did I do? Maybe in the fall I’ll upgrade to Premium Picnik to get some of the additional features too! There are some really cool effects in there. All you need is one click too, as opposed to spending an hour in photoshop playing with settings and gizmos. Picnik is easy. I like things that are easy.

still getting used to my new camera

I love my camera, I really do, I’m just not used to using it yet. I’ve been trying to snap a few pics every day to try to get used to the settings and the flash and all the goodies. But, like always, my memory stinks and I usually forget. Or you end up with a lot of pictures of the cat because he’s the only thing that will hold still long enough other than a piece of fruit….

without flash:

with flash:

without flash, but it was sunny:

lights out and candles lit:

fidgety squirmy little boys give me blurred pics like this even with the image stabilizing feature:

So…. I’m not quite a pro at taking pics yet obviously! I need more practice so there will be much snapping of the shutter and lots of pictures of inanimate objects in the future. Please point me towards your photo blogs, tips, and other photo taking goodness…

Disney Pix Camera

My 9 year old son Lucas got a camera last weekend when we went to Best Buy. He’s been wanting one for awhile and after all his hard work to get on the honor roll how could I say no? Besides that he had a shiny Best Buy gift card just burning holes in his pockets. He is so in love with his little camera, he took hundreds of pictures with it already.

If I recall correctly the Disney Pix Max Pirates of the Carribean III Digital Camera holds 200 pictures, and he’s emptied it twice already and it has pictures on it again, and it’s almost full and ready to empty yet again.

I made a folder on my flickr account for some of his pictures, titled By Lucas. That gives me two little budding photographers now, Dylan and Lucas both have their very own cameras.

His first picture he took with the camera was a self portrait;

He spent an entire day taking pictures of Ethan and testing things out since Ethan is a little ham and doesn’t mind;

And then off to the park to show off his new camera to his friends and get some pics;

The pictures taken outside definitely come out better than the ones he takes in the house. They aren’t going to take great wedding photos for your scrapbook, but for a 9 year old that just wants to snap pics of his friends and pets it’s pretty darn good!

Who knew that three little megapixels could bring such joy? Lucas is happy he has a camera to call his own, I’m happy it didn’t cost me a small fortune! So far I’m happy with the purchase as I am with most Disney gear purchases. It’s got a tough case, it came with everything he needed, and it even includes a kid friendly easy to use photo editing program, which we haven’t played with yet. You can use the program to add borders and Disney characters to your pictures so that should be fun for the boys to use.

I’ve read a lot of mixed reviews about these little Disney gadgets online. I’ll admit he has only had the camera for a week, so I can’t say that it’s going to last forever, but then again I don’t expect it to last anywhere near forever either. It’s basically a hi-tech toy. I’ve read a lot of places saying they are for pampered little rich kids with lots of money to spend. Sorry, my kids are not pampered, and we certainly don’t have a lot of money to spend! Far from it. Gees, it’s not like I bought him a new car for goodness sakes, it’s an inexpensive little camera for him to have some fun with. Remember fun?

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Other nifty Disney digital gear you might be interested in:
Pirates of the Caribbean Pix-Click Digital Camera
3.0 Megapixel 747 Disney Pix Max Pirates of the Carribean III Digital Camera
Disney Pix Micro Digital Camera (Pirates of the Caribbean)
Disney Show Pix – Pirates of the Caribbean

Disney Princess Pix Micro Camera
DISNEY PIX CLICK TINKERBELL- Purple & Green BELIEVE Version
Disney Pix Click Digital Camera – Hannah Montana
Disney Princess Digital Movie Maker