ALDI: Photo paper

I get all my photo paper from ALDI and very happy with the results.

Premium Glossy Photo Paper A4
50pk 235gsm $6.99

Brother MFC-5460CN

  

 

• High speed fax modem. Send and receive faxes using the 33.6Kbps fax/modem.
• Fast colour printing. Speeds up to 30ppm black and 25ppm colour.
• Built-in Ethernet interface‡. Allows you to share the MFC now or in the future. Just plug it into your wired or wireless router and share it to print, scan, PC Fax and access to the digital camera media cards.
• Automatic document feeder. Unattended fax, copy or scan up to 35 pages at a time.
• Media card slots and PictBridge interface. Print photos directly from your digital camera’s media card or from your PictBridge-enabled camera – without a computer.
• 4-cartridge ink system. With separate cartridges for each ink colour, you only need to replace the colour that's empty.
• High Yield Black Cartridge‡. Reduce your running costs with the high yield black cartridge. Prints up to 900 pages at 5% letter size page coverage.

Purchased this in June 2009, Officeworks were having a clearance sale and this was sitting under a table, no price so I asked someone and the response was $99 dollars – SOLD. I have been very happy with this network ready printer and the prints from ALDI photo look pretty good using $4.00 inks from the market.

ALDI Taurus Cordless Lithium-ion screwdriver

More to come…

Still no $1500 from ATO

We have our own super fund (SMSF) and last financial year I got ET to put in $1000 (June 8) so we could claim the 150% super co-contribution - pre budget. She updated the deposit book today and still no $1500 from them?

Update: ATO

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Super co-contributions payments were made in January 2010, and we temporarily suspended payments from February 2010. The payment process has now resumed, with some payments made in late April 2010.

 

The ATO is on track to return to usual processing in May 2010, and currently expects to bring things up to date over May and June 2010.

 

If your payment has been delayed, you do not need to do anything. Interest will be paid as an additional super co-contributions amount where we have delayed payment for more than 60 days.

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Apparently they will pay interest on the payments that have been delayed at the rate specified by the RBA, which is currently at 3.16% - wow

Takeaway night

This evening I have to help ET feed the horses, it takes about one hour and is usually incident free - it feeks cold now and it's only 5.00pm. It's also take away night so pop into Brandon Park and get some nasi goreng - medium hot. The kids come over as well and whatever they bring we pay for it.

 

Agfa ePhoto 1680 Digital Camera

 

   

 

• Megapixel Zoom Digital Camera provides three resolution settings up to 1600x1200 pixels (interpolated). Base image for 1600x1200 super res is a low-compression 1280x960 JPEG.
  
• 3x digital zoom with 38mm to 114mm equivalent focal lengths
  
• Flexible exposure system, with full auto, aperture-priority, and shutter-priority metering modes.
  
• +/- 1.5EV exposure compensation, in 0.5 EV steps
  
• Supplied with NiMH battery set and charger (Kudos to Agfa!)
  
• LCD Viewfinder for easy capturing and viewing of images
  
• Built-in flash, with four settings: automatic, fill-in, red-eye, and off, or works with supplemental external flash
  
• Supports external, slave-triggered flash, with 6 special shutter speed/aperture settings
  
• Unique EasyPilotTM button for user interface to the menu system
  
• Very fast and easy-to-navigate menu system
  
• FlashTrackTM swivel zoom lens moves independently of the camera body to capture images at any angle
  
• 4MB removable memory card (SmartMedia, supports up to 16MB) for in-camera storage
  
• Good ergonomics, light-weight design makes for easy-to-use picture taking experience
  
• Agfa PhotoWise software included for quick and easy downloading and editing of images, does surprisingly good job of interpolating images to higher resolution.

 

   

 

 

I purchased this camera in 1998 at a time whem most people would not have heard of digital cameras. It cost $1600 dollars - OMG
I still have this cameraa in perfect working order and take it out for a Sunday drive. Always amazed at the pictures it produces from a 1.3mp CCD.
One issue was battery consumption, a set of 4 NMHI batteries and a charger was supplied. In the late 90's NiMH batteries did not pack a lot of power (lower current ratings) and were expensive. I had several sets in the bag to keep me going for a couple of hours and always putting the camera into standby between shots.

      

Garden Photos - Flowers

Taken with Kodak Z730 around Sep-Nov 2006