Polaroid i1035 Review
by Dave Johnson
April
22
2009
I ordered the Polaroid i1035 from Tigerdirect a week ago, as a bundle package that included the Digital Camera Essentials, and a 2 GB SD card. I got this great deal plus shipping for the grand total of $107.00. The Polaroid i1035 package includes the camera, two AA batteries, Software disk, 1 year warranty card, and manual. The Digital Camera Essentials package includes a AA or AAA ni-mh/ni-cd battery charger, two ni-MH 2000mAh rechargeable batteries, tiny tripod, usb card reader, and a 128mb SD card.
I’ll be truly reviewing this product unlike the reviews around the internet that say the Polaroid i1035 takes crappie pictures and yet they don’t post any pictures. This is not a camera for serious photography but it does do great for the average persons photography needs like mine. If you want truly amazing pictures then don’t buy a point and shoot camera in the first place.
The Polaroid i1035 has 29 shooting modes. I’m not going to list them all but some of my favorites are, manual, sport, fireworks, soft flowing water, and panorama. With manual mode you can adjusts the exposure, the ISO (up to ISO 1600), white balance, and shutter speed. The sport setting will allow you to capture fast moving mountain bikers bombing down the mountain. The soft flowing water features takes pictures of the flowing water instead of a freeze frame picture. The best is the panorama function. The camera will only take 3 pictures and put them together. But with the software provided it will stitch the pictures to make a full 360 panorama.
Click image for full Paradise Canyon 360
Here are the only problems I have with this camera. First off a rather annoying feature of this camera is when you want to switch to movie mode. You’ll have to click the picture/review/movie mode button. So from picture mode you press that button it will go to review, if you press it again it will go to movie mode, and then back to picture mode.
The biggest problem with this camera is the movie mode. No matter what you record whether it be talking, music, or just no sound at all, the sound on the video will have pops and noise in it. The video is basically rendered useless if you want to have sound. I’ll see what Polaroid has to say about that.
This Camera is great for the price I got it at. I wasn’t expecting anything super amazing because for that I know I would have to buy a $300 camera. What I needed was a very cheap point and shoot camera so I can keep posting photos with my trip reports, and that what I got. the Polaroid i1035 gets 4 SilverCG dudes out of 5.
First monster fish of the year.
by Dave Johnson
February
2
2009
I wen’t fishing at the Lower Tawa Pond today, and cought this big rainbow. It’s kind of hard to judge scale in the photo, but it was about 18″ 6 lbs. This is how it happend. I showed up and just made a nice long cast out. Joe, a friend of mine showed up just seconds after I did, so I stood there talking to him not paying any attention to my foam strike indicator. Finally when I did look back I couldn’t find it so I yanked on it thinking it was just a normal 1/2 to 1 pounder and that is when I saw it come right up to the surface. I finaly caught a monster fish that i’ve been wanting for. it took me a few minutes to land him so I had Joe help hold the rod while I went down to grab him. That is when I noticed I hooked him in the top of the mouth with my small size 18 BH Dark Green Brassie (homemade).
Okuma SLV 45 Reel
by Dave Johnson
January
26
2009
I’ve had the Okuma SLV 45 Reel for a little over two weeks now, and for the price I couldn’t imagine anything better. The Okuma SLV is constructed with a die cast Aluminum frame and spool and a 1-way roller bearing. This makes for a very light yet very strong reel. The one way bearing is my favorite part of this reel. It takes no effort to reel in the line also sparing you that annoying clicking sound that you get with some older reels. Going the other way provides an awesome adjustable drag system that can be fine tuned with just a twist of the knob. This happens to come in handy when you snag that monster fish and need to change the drag in a second.
Even with the large arbor design there is still some memory that remains on the end of my 5WT WF line but stays straight for the most part. After about 20 minutes my line is nice and straight again.
Now I know what you’re thinking, “only one way drag system?? What about us lefties.” Not to worry Okuma has provide instruction with your reel that tell you how to reverse the roller bearing. The instructions are simple to read and fallow, but plan on getting a little messy.
Pros
- Aluminum
- 1-way roller bearing
- Large arbor spool
- Strong Sturdy drag system
Cons
- Extra spools cost about $35.00
- Prone to scratches and scuffs
I would give the Okuma SLV 45 a 4 out of 5 SilverCG dudes, and for the grand price of $60 bucks from Sportsman’s Warehouse I couldn’t ask for anything better.
If you have any questions or comments please let me know and all get back you ASAP.
Fish On!
Dave Johnson.
Paracord Turks Head
by Dave Johnson
October
1
2008
I got a little bored a few nights ago and decided to do something so I saw my 550 Paracord sitting on the shelf and i said to myself “your don’t doing anything with it, you might as well try to make something out of it” so I went to a well known blog in the survival community. stormdrane’s blog is full of everything paracord. and halfway down I saw his video on a turks head. now this is a different way of doing a turks head and was very hard for me to under stand but 5 hours and many retries later I finally got it.