{"id":2037,"date":"2011-11-28T17:58:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T22:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/?p=2037"},"modified":"2011-11-28T20:50:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T01:50:07","slug":"damn-you-cyber-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/damn-you-cyber-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Damn you, Cyber Monday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After six whole years, my trusty Panasonic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/reviews\/panasonicfz20\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Lumix FZ20<\/strong><\/a> has been retired.<\/p>\n<p>The aged, bulky 5 megapixel camera still functions just fine, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/acroplex\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>image quality<\/strong><\/a> has always been great &#8211; but one cannot fight the proverbial &#8220;<em>force of progress<\/em>&#8221; much longer, particularly in digital photography.<\/p>\n<p>My new camera, ordered from Amazon.com during the heat of the<em> Cyber Monday<\/em> sales, is another Panasonic &#8211; the <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.panasonic.com\/shop\/model\/DMC-FZ150K\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>FZ150.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Costing <strong>almost half<\/strong> of what I paid for the FZ20 in 2005, the FZ150 will hopefully accompany me to many more domain conferences than its older sister.<\/p>\n<p>After several days of window shopping, Cyber Monday made me succumb to peer pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, my choice was right! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After six whole years, my trusty Panasonic Lumix FZ20 has been retired. 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