Buying A Digital Camera? - Here's Useful Tips To Help You! (Sep 18, 2011)
About a week before my son was born, I bought a digital camera. I wanted to create a baby book for him that would include not only his first year sign, but also photos to capture his physical growth over his first year of life. I wasn't sure which camera would be best so I went to Best Buy and talked to a sales representative. He helped me sort through the features and select a digital camera that would be best for my project.If you're a technology freak, you've maybe owned a digital camera for years. But for someone like me, making the switch from traditional photographs to a digital format involved a leap of faith. It's not that I don't appreciate technology I just wondered how good the pictures would be from a digital camera when compared to my trusty 35mm. So I bought the camera, brought it home, and began snapping pictures.One feature about a digital camera that I love is the ability to review the pictures before printing and saving them. You can take a series of photos and then choose the best one without worrying about wasting film. But the most important feature, the one I was most worried about, was the quality, and I have to say that I was very impressed with my camera's ability to turn out even better pictures than the ones taken with my 35mm.Digital cameras have come a long way over the last few years, and now you can buy one with so many features that, if you're an amateur photographer like me, you'd never even use. That's why it's important to talk to a salesperson when you're buying a digital camera for the first time, so that you can decide what features you need and which features you can surely live without.Since I would be mainly taking pictures of my family, I didn't need a digital camera with a wonderful zoom feature. But because I would be taking photographs most every day for a year, I did need a digital camera with a good battery. These were just a couple of the features I talked about with the salesperson atBest Buy and he was able to direct me away from the high end professional cameras to the more reasonable ones without all the special features.
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Harbor East boomtown (Oct 10, 2011)
When she envisioned a deluxe newsstand, the kind of place to find glossy magazines in dozens of languages, obscure literary journals and fashion quarterlies that cost as much as $90, Christina Cieri thought of only one location. Harbor East."If I couldn't do it here, I didn't want to do it," the Harbor News owner says. "Do you see it in Federal Hill? In Mount Vernon? In Fells Point? In Canton? I don't."She felt this neighborhood's promise and wanted a part of it. Here, she says, "it's all about the future." Topics Finance Rentals Harbor East See more topics » X Property Apartments Office and Retail Spaces Homes Hotels and Accommodations Hotel and Accommodation Industry Condos Architecture Regional Authority Companies and Corporations Inner Harbor Industrial Accidents Casino and Gambling Industry Dining and Drinking Tourism and Leisure Casino and Gambling Restaurants Colleges and Universities Real Estate Whole Foods Market Battery Park John Paterakis Sr. Battery Park City University of Maryland, College Park Downtown (Baltimore, Maryland) Manhattan (New York City) Fells Point Marvin Mandel Death Lancaster (Lancaster, Virginia) William Donald Schaefer Howard University Laureate Education Inc. Mount Vernon Tour Operations Industry Santa Claus (fictional character) Federal Hill Hudson River Timonium Brick by brick, building by building, block by block, this neighborhood rising in a hurry at the water's edge is growth more intense than Baltimore has known.The latest piece alone, and just an element of the mix, shatters city records for private investment with its fusion of offices, hotels, condominiums, stores and a multiplex.Roads, if not the public transportation system, will have to bend to meet Harbor East's needs. Someday its tax payments will change what the city can afford.While vast swaths of the city struggle to lure development, confidence saturates these streets. Stylish boutiques are moving in next to trendy restaurants, which open underneath exclusive apartments - even as coveted companies forsake the traditional business district to set up amid it all.Harbor East, people agree, is tilting Baltimore's axis.It's grabbing at downtown's boundaries - if not the essence of downtown itself - and forcing people to rethink truisms about everything from Baltimore's unrefined tastes and its economic potential.All on what not long ago was an industrial stretch so grim that the businessman - a baker, of all things - who ended up with it only wanted it off his hands."This?" gasps John Paterakis, the H&S Bakery magnate behind Harbor East. "Whoever tells you we had it all planned, that's bull crap."When I look out at all of this I say to myself, `Not in our wildest dreams.'"$11 million favorAll swagger and cigar smoke, Michael Silver looked like the man to watch in 1984.Though just a couple of years earlier the bushy-haired former aide to Gov. Marvin Mandel was pulling in less than $40,000 a year at the state property tax office, the 39-year-old had become an overnight real estate force, amassing a breathtaking portfolio of expensive waterfront property.When asked about his plans for the land, which stretched for blocks along the eastern side of the just-beginning-to-bloom Inner Harbor, Silver, puffing on his ever-present stogie, would say something like what he told The Sun that year: "I'd be foolish to tip my hand now. ... All you have to know is that I think the land is valuable and will become more valuable."Within a year of that comment, Silver was bankrupt. Baltimore's Old Court Savings & Loan, which backed his land purchases, had collapsed after accusations of mismanagement prompted a run on the bank.The would-be developer's fast talk and bad checks couldn't keep creditors at bay. Eventually they threatened to start selling his property, piece by piece by piece.Although the land might have been desolate, dead space between Fells Point and the Inner Harbor, home to little beyond lots, lumberyards and warehouses, Mayor William Donald Schaefer worried what would happen if the wrong person picked it up in a fire sale. He couldn't have any mistakes so close to his five-year-old Harborplace, the city's first attempt at a real tourist attraction.So Schaefer called on one of Baltimore's most well-to-do businessmen, someone with his own interests in the east side of town, someone who had given profusely to the mayor's campaign -Paterakis. Copyright © 2011, The Baltimore Sun
