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#1 Mar 13 2014 at 6:06 PM Rating: Excellent
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Liftware is such a useful technology. It's a base with several cutlery attachments to damp down arm tremors by 70%. The freaking thing costs $300 though, which is out of reach for so many ill people who already have so many expenses associated with their illness. Lift Lab apparently got a lot internet attention, and some people started buying units to donate to strangers in need. So now they're having a March fundraiser in which Lift Lab matches donations. I threw in $25, but I suspect they'd be grateful for $1.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lift-labs-march-match/x/6709554

I have a tiny tremor that's usually invisible, and fluctuating muscle weakness. Every now and then it causes me to drop crockery, which makes me literally cry when I've just made a new full plate of food. It's stopped me being able to eat with chopsticks, and I can't close doors without slamming them, which makes me sound like an angry person all the time. I can't imagine how hard life is for someone with full blown Parkinson's.
#2 Mar 14 2014 at 9:44 AM Rating: Excellent
I don't have any kind of severe problem, but I can't take a non-blurry photo to save my life because I shake just a wee bit. When a stranger asks me to photograph them at social event, I have to turn them down or warn then I'll have to take five or six pictures in the hopes that one might not be so bad.

I think what I need is a real camera with a super high speed shutter, or something, but I know nothing about cameras.
#3 Mar 14 2014 at 11:31 AM Rating: Good
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Depends on your budget and where/when you usually take photos. In daylight few cameras should struggle to take a picture fast enough to prevent motion blur with even the worst of Alzheimer patients but if you're trying to take pictures of people in a dark bar where everything is brown or black so you don't see how filthy it is and even one of the newest full frame cameras with a fancy f1.0 or f1.1 lens will struggle to take a good photo without flash.
#4 Mar 14 2014 at 11:36 AM Rating: Excellent
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Sounds like a nice cause and all, but my donation dinero is tied up in the Wounded Warrior Project, and will admit it is for somewhat selfish and self-preservatory reasons and not out of the kindness of my blood pumper.
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#5 Mar 14 2014 at 12:03 PM Rating: Good
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Depends on your budget and where/when you usually take photos. In daylight few cameras should struggle to take a picture fast enough to prevent motion blur with even the worst of Alzheimer patients but if you're trying to take pictures of people in a dark bar where everything is brown or black so you don't see how filthy it is and even one of the newest full frame cameras with a fancy f1.0 or f1.1 lens will struggle to take a good photo without flash.


My hypothetical budget is considerably higher than it would have been a year ago, but I'm still not sure an actual budget should be higher than $0 since I'd use it once and then forget where I put it.
#6 Mar 14 2014 at 2:49 PM Rating: Good
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My camera is my smart phone, since that's the only way I'll get it to events by minimizing weight I'm carrying. Even with my invisible minuscule tremor, I have to take 5 pics of one scene, to almost guarantee I'll have one non-blurry pic. There IS an app that indicates when the cameraphone is still/won't take a pic until the cameraphone is still. I should get it, just haven't gotten around to it. I'm kind of scared of waiting around in frustration for my hands to steady while my arms get worse from holding the camera phone up. Logically that's not going to happen too much since at the moment my hands are demonstrably still 1/5th of the time. It's just an irrational fear, but there it is.

Catwho, highfive on the fogettory :)
#7 Mar 14 2014 at 3:14 PM Rating: Good
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A good smartphone is probably a better idea than a cheap digital camera anyway, the camera may have a little higher quality but not a mindblowing difference or anything and you're probably mostly taking snapshots anyway where quality isn't that big a deal.
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