Saturday, February 12, 2011

New Sony Camera



$180

The DSC-H55's 10x wide (25mm equivalent) lens takes better shots from greater distances and wider landscapes in a compact body. Take breathtaking panoramic shots in one sweeping motion with Sweep Panorama mode and review them on a 3.0-inch LCD screen. Minimize blur with Optical SteadyShot image stabilization.

Sony DSC-H55 Cyber-shot Highlights

3.0-inch Clear Photo LCD display (230k pixels)
Compose and show off your images on the large 3.0-inch (230K) Clear Photo LCD display, which features a special anti-reflective coating for sharp visibility, even in bright sunlight.

10x (25mm-equivalent) professional-quality optical zoom G-Lens
G lenses are used in top of the line digital single lens reflex (DSLR) cameras and advanced pro-sumer HD camcorders. Capture the action up close with the 10x optical zoom, and with the 25mm equivalent wide angle lens the H55 even allows you to capture more of the scenes in landscape or group portraits.

14.1-megapixel Super HAD CCD image sensor
A powerful 14.1-megapixel, 1/2.3-inch Super HAD CCD image sensor helps you capture gorgeous images with superb contrast and clarity down to the finest detail. With 14.1 megapixels, you can create stunning, photo-quality prints up to A3+ (13 x 19") size, or crop your images and still come away with high resolution shots.

Sweep Panorama mode
Reach beyond the traditional wide angle lens, and capture more breathtaking shots with Sweep Panorama Mode. Simply press the shutter button and sweep the camera horizontal or vertically and the camera continuously shoots at a high speed, then seamlessly stitches the images together with automatic position adjustment to create one stunning panoramic image. Available in wide and ultra-wide options, the camera can take panoramic shots of up to 243 degrees. Now capturing wide landscapes is as easy as press and sweep.




720p HD MP4 Movie Mode
720p MP4 is a popular format for high definition video that compresses the size of your audio and video, making your media files small enough to easily transfer to your compatible PC or Mac. MP4 is also highly compatible with the Web, so you can effortlessly upload your media to popular photo or video-sharing Web sites like Photobucket or YouTube. (Compatible PC with internet capability required).

BIONZ Image Processor
The BIONZ image processor delivers the high resolution and fast performance you expect from a Sony digital camera. Fast processing enables unique Sony features such as Sweep Panorama, Handheld Twilight, Antimotion Blur, HDR, etc to take and combine multiple images in less than a second to create wide panoramic images. Images have reduced grain and appear less washed out.

Saturday, February 05, 2011

Dodge Caravan Water Pump and Oil Change

Per Firestone the water pump leak caused drive belt come off.

They did these:

Replaced water pump 240;
Flushed coolant 95
Oil change 25
Charged battery 15
Repaired a bad tire 20
Replaced radiator cap 0 (s/b 19)

Towing 71

Miles: 99,300.

After $40 gift card from Firestone I paid $455. Need get 71 back from State Farm.


Recommends:

SWAY bar links 220
Valve cover gasket 483
Oil pan gasket 162
Trans fluid service 82

Tuesday, February 01, 2011

Battery light came on. steering wheel tight

Big snow day.
Notice Battery light came on and steering wheel very tight. Drove home anyway.

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Double check to see if there is still a serpentine belt in place around the pullies. This was a very common problem for these to throw their belts for no apparent reason. There are kits that fix this issue. The dealer does not carry. I have used these in shops and they work wonders. It will come with a new tensioner and I believe a new idler pulley and belt. Here is the kit number:Gates 38379K Serpentine Belt Drive Component Kit. Costs about $100. Problem solved!! Let me know if it is something different but it's usually due to this issue.

Update:
Yes the belt came off completely. Maybe due to water pump leak.