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Weekend Roundup #96

Jaypee Habaradas — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:08:22 +0000

Hi everyone! Hope you’re all doing fine. My apologies for not being able to publish a Weekend Roundup last week. This week’s edition is a bit late because of the long weekend, being Labor Day Weekend (Sept 6th was Labor Day here in the US). Had a fun, long weekend spent with family and friends. The weekend’s highlight was driving to Thousand Oaks to attend a friend’s daughter’s birthday party. It was a long drive but it was well worth it because we had fun chatting and hanging out with friends and last but not least, the food was great.

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Canon PIXMA MX340

Jaypee Habaradas — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:59:11 +0000

The past few years we’ve been using the HP PSC 1410 All-in-One Printer for all our printing needs at home. It’s been a very reliable and useful printer, scanner and photocopying machine. A few months back, we started to notice some problems with the printer. One was alignment problems – all printed pages were not aligned. The other problem was the printer couldn’t print multiple pages, it would stop printing after the first page and would display a printing error message. The alignment problem was easy to fix with the help of the built-in troubleshooting features but it wasn’t true for the other problem. I tried all the possible solutions, searched the Internet for a possible fix but couldn’t find any.

We finally gave up and decided to get a new printer. As usual, I first searched the web for the best deals and prices. Found one from Amazon.com – the Canon PIXMA MX340 all-in-one inkjet printer. It was on sale for $79.99 and eligible for Prime Shipping. But since we needed it right away, we opted to get it from BestBuy who had it on sale for the same price. Paid for it online and chose in-store pickup (a better and cheaper option than buying it online and paying extra for shipping) and picked it up later that day.

Tech Specifications:

Product Height: 7.8″
Product Width: 16.4″
Product Weight: 19 lbs.
Product Depth: 18.1″
Print Speed (B&W): Up to 8.4 ipm
Print Speed (Color): Up to 4.8 ipm
Print Speed (Photo): 4″ x 6″ photo in as little as 43 sec
Black Printer Resolution: Up to 600 x 600 dpi
Color Printer Resolution: Up to 4800 x 1200 dpi
Media Types: Plain: Plain paper, high resolution paper; Super High Gloss: Photo paper pro platinum, Photo paper pro II; Glossy: Photo paper plus glossy II, Photo paper glossy; Semi-Gloss: Photo paper plus semi-gloss; Matte: Matte photo paper; Envelope: U.S. #10 envelope
Media Sizes: Letter, legal, envelopes (U.S. #10); 4″ x 6″, 4″ x 8″, 5″ x 7″ and 8″ x 10″ paper
Input Paper Capacity: Up to 100 sheets
Type of Interface: USB
Total Ink Tanks/Cartridge: 1 PG-210 black ink cartridge, 1 CL-211 color cartridge
Drop Size: 2 and 5 picoliters
Print Quality: For photos and documents
PC-Free Printing: Yes
Paper Feeder: Built-in
Networking Capabilities: Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11 b/g), USB 2.0 Hi-speed, Bluetooth v2.0, PictBridge
Scanner Resolution (dpi): 1200 x 2400 dpi (optical) 19,200 x 19,200 dpi (interpolated) and ADF: 600 x 600 dpi (optical)
Bit Depth: 48-bit internal / 24-bit external
Scanner Type: Flatbed
Copier Speed (Color): Up to 3.4 cpm
Multiple Copies: Up to 99
Reduction/ Enlargement: 25-400%
Automatic Document Feeder: Yes
Fax Transmission Speed: Approx. 3 sec./page at 33.6 Kbps
Fax Memory: Up to 50 pages
Fax Type: Black-and-white and color
Document Feed Type and Capacity: Automatic; 30 pages
Minimum System Requirements: Windows 2000, XP ,Vista or 7; Mac OS v10.4.11 ? v10.6.x
Wireless Networking: Yes

Product Photos:

The Canon PIXMA MX340 is pretty much the same as the previous one we had except for the wireless printing capabilities. So far it has performed very well – printing, scanning and photocopying documents and stuff. We usually print our photos in CostCo so we haven’t tried printing photos from this printer. I also haven’t set up the printer to do printing via WiFi. But I plan to do as soon as I find the time and will update this post as soon as I’ve tried that particular feature. Overall, I can say that the Canon PIXMA MX340 is a very good choice for an affordable and reliable all-in-one wireless printer. If you don’t need the wireless printing/networking feature, you can get the Canon PIXMA MX330 for about $20 less.

Anyone else own a Canon PIXMA MX340 or any PIXMA MX series printer? What have been your experience using it? What are the things you like or dislike with the printer? Please share your thoughts.

[image source: Canon.com]

Canon EOS Digital Rebel T1i

Jaypee Habaradas — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 06:42:25 +0000

The past couple of months had been very “fruitful” and “rewarding” for my blog. As a reward to myself for the hardwork I’ve done, I decided to get myself a DSLR camera. A few months ago, I was thinking/planning of getting the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi aka Canon EOS 450D, but when the time came for me to pick out something to buy I changed my mind and opted for the Canon EOS Digital Rebel T1i aka Canon EOS 500D.

I bought the Canon T1i online from BestBuy just like I did with most of the gadgets I purchased before. I got it for $799 with free 3-day shipping and got the package earlier today via UPS.

Basic Features:

15.1 Megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor
Full HD movie recording with HDMI connection for viewing and playback on an HDTV
ISO 100-3200 (expandable to 12800)
3.4 frames per second continuous shooting
Max. 170 large JPEG images in a single burst
3.0” ClearView LCD with Live View mode
9-point wide area AF with cross type centre point
High speed DIGIC 4 performance and superb image quality
EOS Integrated Cleaning System
Full compatibility with Canon EF and EF-S lenses and EX-series Speedlites, including new Speedlite 270EX, TS-E 17mm f/4L and TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II

Additional Photos:

Since I only got it today, I haven’t been able to fully test it or take different types of shots. I’m not an expert photographer and I’m still a newbie to photography so this will be the start of a fun learning experience for me. Now that I have the Canon EOS Digital Rebel T1i, I’ll have more and better photos to put up on the photoblog that I’ve been planning to start.

He doesn’t know it yet, but my cousin’s gonna be very happy because I’ll be passing on to him my old camera, the Canon Powershot S3 IS which is a very reliable camera and still in excellent condition.

Btw, you can read a more detailed review of the Canon EOS Digital Rebel T1i or also known as the Canon EOS 500D over at dpreview.

[image source: BestBuy.com]

Canon Powershot S3 IS

Jaypee Habaradas — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:10:06 +0000

This is my new toy, a Canon Powershot S3 IS. I bought it online and FedEx delivered it last Friday. For those who waited and made guesses on my previous post, this is what’s in the box.

Basic features:

12x optical zoom lens with USM and UD lens element
Optical Image Stabilizer
6.0 Megapixel CCD
Larger size 2.0” Vari-angle LCD
30fps VGA movies with stereo sound and Photo in Movie feature
DIGIC II, iSAPS and Flexizone AF/AE for fast, precise results and 2.3 fps continuous shooting performance
20 shooting modes and My Colors photo effects
High ISO Auto and ISO 800 for low light flexibility
Widescreen (16:9) recording

Additional Photos:

Front View

Rear View

All Around View (click on image to view larger version)

It’s not as powerful and as nice as the Canon EOS 400D Digital Rebel XTi that I have on my wishlist but after giving it much thought, I decided that I would be better off with this camera since I’m still an amateur photographer and still have a lot to learn in photography. I thought that this would be a good camera to start with in honing my photography skills. Btw, I also got a SANDISK 2 GB Ultra II SD card, to go with it.

Friday afternoon, I bought a LowePro camera bag and then on Sunday, I went to BestBuy and got the Energizer 15-minute charger.

So far I’ve only taken pictures of my wife and kid but haven’t tried it on other stuff like scenery and objects. I’m still getting myself used to the controls and different settings of this camera so it might take a while before I get nice photos to share. I also plan to setup a separate photo album once I have enough photos to upload.

You can read a detailed review of the Canon Powershot S3 IS over at dpreview.com

[image source: dpreview.com]