Geeks with Cameras
Aug. 21st, 2005 06:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
revchrisToday was the Bailey Family Reunion. Maggs & I went, along with the in-laws (it's my mother-in-law's side of the family).
We took a lot of pictures, and then, being the geeks we are, started printing them at the park for people. If I haven't said this before, the Epson PictureMate Deluxe Viewer Edition rocks. We printed about 100 pics, used a $29 media kit doing so, and got about $25 in donations for people for the pics.
A lot of people were amazed at the picture quality. They were also really pleased by the fact that we both know how to take pics, and by our even bringing a tripod so we could do timer shots and get the whole clan into a group photo.
Next year, if we do this the same way, we need more larger memory cards, and a second printer (they're cool, but a little slow). I have a 1GB card as the main card, and carry 3x16MB of spares (they're the starter cards). Maggs has a 512MB card we just bought and a 64MB card, and somewhere in the house there is another 256MB card, but we haven't seen it for a year or so.
We took a lot of pictures, and then, being the geeks we are, started printing them at the park for people. If I haven't said this before, the Epson PictureMate Deluxe Viewer Edition rocks. We printed about 100 pics, used a $29 media kit doing so, and got about $25 in donations for people for the pics.
A lot of people were amazed at the picture quality. They were also really pleased by the fact that we both know how to take pics, and by our even bringing a tripod so we could do timer shots and get the whole clan into a group photo.
Next year, if we do this the same way, we need more larger memory cards, and a second printer (they're cool, but a little slow). I have a 1GB card as the main card, and carry 3x16MB of spares (they're the starter cards). Maggs has a 512MB card we just bought and a 64MB card, and somewhere in the house there is another 256MB card, but we haven't seen it for a year or so.
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Date: 2005-08-22 02:43 pm (UTC)Both printers use the same paper and ink cartridage (they use a 1-piece 7-color ink module). THe prints are smudge proof and (Epson says) waterproof right out of the printer. We haven't tested the waterproof part yet, but the printers are handleable right away.