© 1999-2008 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-Howard_Creech Recent reviews written by member Howard_Creech en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_431449542276?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Howard_Creech - I&#146ve been enthusiastic about popular music since the late fifties and I grew up listening to the Carter Family, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Ray Charles, Patsy Cline, Brenda Lee, and Sam Cooke. I don&#146t have an iPod - I... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~431449542276 Mon, 26 May 2008 04:08:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_431449542276?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_427568041604?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Howard_Creech - Entry-level digital SLRs offer amateur photographers affordable access to the world of interchangeable lenses and the enhanced creative capabilities and expanded versatility of modular imaging platforms. Canon&#146s fourth generation Digital Rebel XSI... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~427568041604 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:20:07 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_427568041604?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_423695847044?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Howard_Creech - At the end of the 19th century most photographers still captured images with large, unwieldy glass plates loaded into very slow tripod mounted view cameras, but the introduction in 1888 of the boxy little Kodak "Brownie" roll film camera changed all... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~423695847044 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:22:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_423695847044?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_419853471364?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Howard_Creech - The public&#146s burgeoning love affair with ultra-portable high-tech gadgets is indisputable &#150 people talking (and texting) on cell phones and/or listening to music (and watching video) on MP3 players while they work, walk, run, shop, and drive is... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~419853471364 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:20:29 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_419853471364?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_418406502020?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Howard_Creech - The public&#146s ongoing love affair with ultra-portable audio/video players is remarkable; every day there are more devices available with larger capacities and at steadily declining prices. MP3 players have become, in just a few years, a cultural icon... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~418406502020 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:26:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_418406502020?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_412314013316?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Howard_Creech - Entry-level digital SLRs are meant to fill the gap between prosumer Point & Shoot digicams and semi-pro digital SLRs. The very compact Olympus E-Volt E-410 has all the bells and whistles consumers have come to expect from high-end prosumer P&S digicams... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~412314013316 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:28:39 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_412314013316?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_407511207556?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Howard_Creech - Canon's ultra-compact digicams have consistently been among the most successful competitors in the hi-tech marketplace because they (almost) always deliver impressive usability, class champ performance, and very good image quality - all stuffed into a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~407511207556 Sun, 11 Nov 2007 02:41:52 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_407511207556?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_406941175428?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Howard_Creech - The Cybershot DSC W200 is Sony&#146s "W" series flagship, a stylish auto-exposure only digicam that was designed to appeal to casual photographers and snap-shooters who value pocketability and dead simple operation. The consumer digicam market is... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~406941175428 Sat, 3 Nov 2007 03:32:52 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_406941175428?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_404205833860?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Howard_Creech - Canon&#146s new PowerShot A650 IS is aimed directly at serious and semi-serious shooters who want SLR-like performance, but don&#146t want to lug around a dSLR and a bag of lenses - at least not all the time. Canon's "A" series digicams are known for... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~404205833860 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:55:38 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_404205833860?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_378798313092?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Howard_Creech - Photography has been my obsession for more than thirty years, so I'm a very lucky guy - I get to test lots of nifty new digital cameras. The only problem is that I have to send the cameras back when my tests are finished. Usually that's not too... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~378798313092 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 03:39:04 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_378798313092?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_373387202180?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Howard_Creech - I've been a popular music fan since my early teens; I grew up listening to Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Ray Charles, Patsy Cline, and Sam Cooke. I&#146ve never regarded myself an audiophile, even though I&#146ve been buying and using audio components... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~373387202180 Fri, 8 Jun 2007 16:16:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_373387202180?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_367917633156?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Howard_Creech - In the olden days photographers took pictures, had their film processed, looked through their 3x5 inch prints, and then shoved the vast majority of those pictures into a drawer and promptly forgot about them. Over the past decade, digital cameras have... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~367917633156 Sun, 27 May 2007 23:21:52 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_367917633156?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_366216580740?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Howard_Creech - Canon's Digital Elph digicams have been very popular with consumers since the first digital elph (the S100) was introduced in 2000 and the new SD750/ Digital IXUS 75 won&#146t do anything to change that. Canon&#146s model numbering (the SD750 is the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~366216580740 Thu, 24 May 2007 04:18:23 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_366216580740?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_352300469892?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Howard_Creech - Canon's "A" series digicams have been number one in U.S. sales for the past five years because they consistently provide consumers with class leading features, super images, and amazing ease of use. Canon's "A" series digicams reliably offer more... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~352300469892 Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:23:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_352300469892?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_333710659204?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Howard_Creech - Generations of student photographers, high school and college photo-journalists, and wannabe pro shooters honed their photographic skills with the Pentax K1000; a very basic manual exposure single lens reflex (SLR) designed to help neophyte shooters... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~333710659204 Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:52:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_333710659204?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_322783776388?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Howard_Creech - Canon's "A" series digicams are famous for their practicality, flexibility, class leading performance, impressive build-quality, and amazing ease of use &#150 that&#146s why they&#146ve been number one in U. S. sales for the past four years. "A" series... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~322783776388 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:55:53 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_322783776388?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_320597888644?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Howard_Creech - I recently decided to expand my cast iron fry pan collection and bought a Lodge 10 1/4 inch cast iron skillet from Amazon.com. When I was a youngster we often traveled from the flat prairies of North Central Indiana to the mountains of Eastern Kentucky... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~320597888644 Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:53:57 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_320597888644?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_316183056004?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Howard_Creech - Photography has been around for more than one hundred and sixty years, but in the last ten years this venerable medium has seen more changes than in the prior one hundred and fifty years, combined. One of the most fundamental changes is that images... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~316183056004 Tue, 6 Feb 2007 03:10:29 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_316183056004?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_312556686980?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Howard_Creech - South Florida crime thrillers have been a staple of escapist literature since John D. MacDonald published the first Travis McGee adventure back in 1964. MacDonald used McGee to lay down the ground rules for a whole new fiction genre. South Florida is... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~312556686980 Mon, 29 Jan 2007 02:35:51 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_312556686980?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_309426032260?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Howard_Creech - Way back in the dark ages, when photography was all about silver based film and chemical processing, camera choices were much simpler. Photographers who wanted an ultra-compact camera bought a Riga Minox or a Rollei 35S or they joined the CIA. The... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~309426032260 Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:50:58 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_309426032260?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_299245473412?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Howard_Creech - Two years ago nearly everyone in the digital imaging industry thought the Powershot G6 would be would be the last of Canon's premium compact prosumer P&S digicams because the amazing proliferation of reasonably priced entry-level dSLRs made the expensive... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~299245473412 Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:37:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_299245473412?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_296292290180?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Howard_Creech - When I moved to Los Angeles a few months after getting out of the Army in 1970, bits and pieces of the city Raymond Chandler described so evocatively in his classic hard-boiled mystery novels still existed. I loved wandering the night-time streets of the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~296292290180 Sun, 24 Dec 2006 03:16:57 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_296292290180?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_293035019908?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Howard_Creech - Five years ago the most popular flash memory media format was CompactFlash (CF), but the Secure Digital (SD) format is rapidly becoming the memory media format of choice. Flash memory media provide stable/non-volatile (stored data is retained in memory... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~293035019908 Sun, 17 Dec 2006 03:32:54 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_293035019908?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_290239319684?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Howard_Creech - Hoping to capitalize on the unrelenting MP3/Digital Media player frenzy, Best Buy recently introduced 3 new Insignia MP3/Digital Media players (Insignia is Best Buy&#146s house brand) just in time to tempt shoppers seeking high tech holiday gift... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~290239319684 Mon, 11 Dec 2006 04:45:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_290239319684?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_285923970692?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Howard_Creech - Canon's A series digital cameras continue to hold the number one spot in U. S. sales because they consistently provide consumers with class leading performance, superb ergonomics, tough as nails durability, excellent image quality, and "best in... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~285923970692 Fri, 1 Dec 2006 03:49:20 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_285923970692?linkin_id=8003929