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Jan 20, 2023
Excellent porduct, best price I have found in this size
Saves me from having to washn my hair when I am in a hurry. For dark hair. Quite possibly the best for the buck.
Jan 15, 2007
Cameras of this quality usually cost a lot more
12 of 12 found this helpful Bought the camera after an extensive search of digital camera reviews. It was a Christmas present to my wife. I know a bit about digital cameras (I own top-notch a dSLR)so I knew for what features I was looking. The A540 has a 6.0-megapixel sensor, a 4x optical zoom lens, a broadcast quality Movie mode and full manual and full automatic controls. At this level of performance, you cna blow up the picture taken in fine mode to an 11x14 photograph and still not see any pixilation.
My wife loves the huge 2.5" rear-panel LCD, which is in addition to its real-image optical viewfinder. The A540 has aperture-priority and shutter-priority exposure modes, welcome options for the future when she becomes more sophisticated. ISO light-sensitivity ranges from 80 to 800. It has a wide range of scene modes in between, and a "My Colors" menu that offers special effects such as Vivid and Neutral, Light or Dark skin, and Custom color adjustments. An Underwater scene mode even adjusts color balance and exposure for use with an optional underwater housing. Not that we will do much underwater photography. Just not our cup-of-salt-water.
A nice feature is the ability to use either regular AAA alkaline batteries or rechargeable NiMHs. I recommend a charger and 2700 mAh batteries as desirable accessories. I bought a package deal that included a 1GB SD memory card, a light-weight camera case, and small flexible tripod for steady pictures or pictures that you want to be in (automatically timed). We connected the camera directly to a PC via USB2.0 port and the download was fast. You won't need a memory card reader.
My wife has small hands and the camera size, shape, and weight fits her perfectly. Add the Canon brand-name and you got yourself the best bang for the buck that I could find after three weeks of reading reviews and talking to camera buffs.
Jul 08, 2007
Was it murder or was it a heart attack?
Eisler’s “Rain” series is about John Rain, an assassin who has the ability to make his victims appear to have died of natural causes. Depending how you feel about the subject, the entire series may or may not appeal to you. Rain is a complex character with a code of honor of his own. He does not enjoy killing, but it is a job for which he gets paid well. He was taught how to kill in Vietnam and the effects of what he did there remain with him to this day. “Hard Rain” is the second in the series, which should be read in chronological order; otherwise some references to past events may not make full sense. Eisler has a keen eye for detail and we become intimately familiar with Rain’s surrounds, which in the first two books are almost exclusively in Tokyo, Japan. We become familiar with politics of Japan and the immense level of corruption within its government. By using our imagination and visualizing Rain’s battles, we also become martial art experts by proxy. Interesting stuff for men; I am not so sure about most women. Rain’s self-imposed isolation, both emotional and physical, can become a burden that some readers may find difficult to deal with. By the third book I was becoming a little jaded myself, even though the action remains ferocious.
I can see some unusual redeeming qualities to Eisler’s books: they made me aware about security, privacy, and self-protection at a level that could be life-saving in big city living. Luckily, Rain’s paranoia is not catchy. After all not, everyone is my potential enemy and nobody is likely to want to kill me because some agency wants to have “deniability” for its actions. Conspirationalists will love these books since they will provide further fodder for their “fertile” imaginations.
In “Hard Rain” John is working with Tatsu, a mysterious and classical agent of Japan's FBI. Tatsu may the last honest man in Japanese Government and he has works for decades to cleanse the Japanese government of its deeply-seated and systemic corruption. Tatsu convinces the ever-cautious Rain to kill Murakami, a brutal gangster and assassin who also specializes in making his killings look like suicide. Rain thinks of Murakami as someone who may be too much for him to take out. Indeed, killing the dangerous and elusive Murakami becomes a difficult task, one that leads to personal loss for Rain. There are some unexpected twists in the plot that I didn’t see coming, but overall Eilser follows the very successful formula he started in his first book, “Rain Fall.” If you don’t mind reading about the crunching sound one’s neck makes, as his neck is broken, by all means, you can’t do any better than “Hard Rain.” Definitely not for the squeamish, but a delight for those of us who want a few days’ of fictional entertainment to break us away from CNN News. Eisler is a true expert at both Japan and the martial arts, so besides being entertained, I also feel that I learn something from each of his books. “Hard Rain” is no exception. Eisler is an adroit writer, with a knack for thoughtful dialog and a sharp insight into fight action. I enjoyed “Hard Rain” a lot.