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LIVING February 20, 2011 PUZZLES E2 COMMUNITY E3 THE SUNDAY JOURNAL Abqjournal.com Stealing paradise Planning saves big bucks in Hawaii E6 size: 1 col and col date of proof: April 20, 2009 colorbw col 4p 1 col 5p2 top reviews 10 top reviews 10 top reviews 10 top reviews 10 Point, shoot and buy By Leslie Meredith Top Ten Reviews A ll cameras are essentially the same technology a shutter that exposes light on a light-sensitive surface. The quality of an image can vary with the equipment used, but that difference is shrinking with the advance of technology. If you looked at lower-priced digital compact cameras lately, you are in for a pleasant surprise. This spring will see the introduction of name brand point-and-shoot digital cameras priced well under $200 with more features than a camera that cost twice as much just a few years ago. 1998, I paid $14,000 for a 12-megapixel says Michael Schoenfeld, an advertising photographer based in Salt Lake City.

you can get 12 megapixels for under Most compact cameras in the $120 to $250 range, including those from Canon, Samsung and Sony, shoot good quality video and photos, he says. all good, so how do you choose? Walk into any electronics or big box retailer to see the latest models, which appear interchangeable: black or silver, fit in your hand, big lens on the front, screen on the back. A good choice will include built-in optical image stabilization, an optical zoom lens rather than a digital zoom that often results in loss of sharpness, and a large LCD screen for viewing and composing images. Schoenfeld said the most important thing to look for is an interface that makes sense. He urges shoppers to pick up a camera, turn it on and start working with the menus.

like buying a pair of shoes you buy shoes without trying them on and walking around to see if he says. Sony thinks fits you may be different than what Panasonic A camera that can wirelessly transmit photos to a computer may prove helpful and that feature earns extra in book. Next month, Samsung will See EYE-FI on PAGE E4 Books are a big part of life for translator Steven T. Murray, who says that translating a piece of literature is like playing someone composition. found in Stieg best-selling thrillers give Albuquerque man freedom to pursue literary goals he Sweden of Stieg thrillers (starting with Girl With the Dragon is so bleak and frigid, hard to imagine that most of us only know books because of one man in sunny Albuquerque.

And if readers, odds are we do know those stories: The Millennium Trilogy has exploded beyond imagining, least of all translator Steven T. Murray, 67, who lives in the Northeast Heights. knew they would be good says Murray, whose work appears under the name think it would over the he says, referring to the recent Entertainment Weekly cover proclaiming just that. According to the Guardian, the trilogy is inching toward worldwide sales of close to 50 million books, in more than 30 languages. Hollywood is turning the stories of intrepid journalist Mikael Blomkvist and brilliant, beautiful computer hacker Lisbeth Salander into English- See TRANSLATOR on PAGE E4 Sweet on Sweden The surprising worldwide commercial success of Stieg Millennium Trilogy has brought greater attention, and readers, to other crime fiction from Sweden and other Scandinavian countries.

BookS pagE, F4 Story by Matt Andazola Photographs by Marla Brose Of the Journal Think I Love explores power of teen-idol crushes By Jocelyn Noveck The Associated Press EW YORK Ah, the teen idol crush. Was there ever a love so pure, so ardent, so idyllic and yet so painfully real as the love of a teenage girl for Paul McCartney, Davy Jones or Bobby Sherman in the or Justin Bieber or Robert Pattinson today? Take British novelist Allison Pearson, whose devotion at age 13 for David Cassidy, aka Keith Partridge (of the feathered mullet and Partridge was so intense, she wore the color brown for 18 months because read it was his favorite. my entire wardrobe was brown brown bell-bottoms, brown platform says Pearson. actually look malarial in brown. But somehow, I thought it would give me some competitive advantage over the other Like most love-struck teens, Pearson, now 50, eventually recovered from the shock that she would never be Mrs.

Cassidy. She reached adulthood, got married, had kids, became a prominent newspaper columnist in Britain and then a best-selling novelist with the 2002 Know How She Does now being made into a movie with Sarah Jessica Parker as her working-mom heroine, Kate Reddy. But she never forgot her David and she reckons many of us forgotten our teen idol crushes, either. Her new book, Think I Love which hit stores this month, is not only a paean to Cassidy but an exploration of the fragile emotions and fraught relationships of the teenage years. may think silly, but the teen idol crush is really, really said Pearson, sipping a cappuccino earlier this month in Manhattan.

a dress rehearsal for love. in love with the IDEA of being in If the author seemed to be glowing a bit, the reason may have been her experience earlier that morning. Appearing on been surprised on set by none other than Cassidy himself, now 60 and still performing. Luckily, dressed right she was wearing a ribbon- British author opens up about her devotion to David Cassidy FILE PHOTO David Cassidy, aka the mul- leted keith partridge of partridge inspired many a teenage crush. Think I Love is a novel inspired by author allison teenage crush on David Cassidy.

See TEEN on PAGE E4 SaMSUNg The Samsung SH100 wireless compact digital camera will be available in March. nsl Tion The Millennium Trilogy of thrillers by Stieg Larsson was originally published in Swedish. The books are huge best-sellers in the English-speaking world thanks to translations by Steven T. Murray, who lives in albuquerque..