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So. Somehow or another our digital camera is missing. I know where I saw it last, but it’s not there. It’s not in any of the logical places. It’s not in any of the illogical places, either. It’s been several weeks now and it hasn’t turned up anywhere.
We’ve got our tax refund and my birthday’s coming up, so maybe possibly there’s a new camera in our future.
We go to concerts. Kitti’s band has been having shows. I like to take pictures of things. I’d really like something that’s going to last. I’d like something with great resolution (4 or 5 megapixels, maybe. I’m not a professional so I don’t need to go crazy there. I just want pictures that will make good prints). I’d like something with an awesome zoom. Something that does well in low light. Something that’s capable of taking pictures rapidly (no “motion blur” because things are moving fast). Something with an optional black-and-white setting (because I love black and white photos). Something with automatic settings (and maybe manual settings as well).
Your turn. Give me suggestions!
March 16th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Today on some talk show they were talking about some new gadgets from some technology show they were at and some of the new features sound cool. Like wireless downloading and a little motor thingy that corrects for blurryness if you don’t have steady hands.
March 17th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
Low light = slow shutter speeds = motion blur, unless you shoot at rilly high ISO settings (1600, 3200, etc., which compact point-n-g/r/u/n/t/shoot cameras don’t offer). Compact digitals have neither the fast sensors nor the fast lenses you need to do low-light shooting without blur. Image stabilization (like on the Panasonic Lumix compacts) will help with camera shake, but not with subjects that are moving. Even at high ISO, you’re going to have to shoot wisely to get what you want, and most compacts top out at 2-3 stops slower than that (exposure times from 4-8x longer… the difference between 1/60 second and 1/15-1/8).
What is “awesome zoom”? Wide zoom range? If 8x zoom is good, 12x is four better? ;) A lens with a wide zoom range tends to make compromises at its extremes. At the wide end, you chance getting falloff in the corners that results in vignetting, at the long end you get softness and pincushion distortion.
In re: B&W - monochrome modes on cameras tend to be just desaturated color, and produce washed-out images. Best to shoot in color and convert to B&W in post with PS Elements or a similar tool. The classic look of B&W film emphasizes the green and red parts of the spectrum at the expense of blue, while color film/sensors respond very differently.
Perhaps it’s time to move up to a Canon Digital Rebel XTi, or a Nikon D40x and a couple of decent lenses?