New camera in the household
Tonight I got my new digicam, a Canon Powershot A70, a replacement for my old 1.3mp Olympus 230.
It’s ‘only’ 3.2mp but I think it’s got a nice value-for-money score (DKR 3250). And I topped it with a 256mb kingston Compact Flash card, so I can shoot 154 pictures in a resolution of 2048×1536. Mmmm.
I really like the real-photographer-features and I just took this picture out of the window - copenhagen by night and a 15 sec. shutter. The blue light is not a bug in my camera but the a neon sign reading “Lois P klubber”. Fun fun fun :-)
Pocket cameras nowadays must be able to do video and sound, which in a market where features equals value equals higher pricing is not surprising, but somehow I think it is too much and taking the romance out of the silent snapshot. No, nooo that’s not good enough - you should audio-comment your pictures (yes you can do that…) and get some live motion while you’re at it.
On the other hand - I am a gadget guy, so it’s not too bad making a statement on .avi and run it through VirtualDub - adding some hue to the movie, making it look like green iraqi sky…
But I wonder - is anyone actually using the movie features of digital cameras? I think I’m going to fool around with it for a while, but as I bought a camera and not a camcorder, I’m afraid it’s going to turn into useless stuffing.
Found Top Ten Digital Photography Tips quite useful for an incarnated wild point and shooter.