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I recently bought a digital camera. It was 10 years ago I sold all my 35mm and larger format film cameras. I'm a little rusty to say the least. :D
I've taken a few photos to try and get a feel for all the buttons and settings. :rolleyes:
Xtreme Pro 5 has been used to crop and manipulate the images in this and the following posts.
Please provide critiques and comments.
The attached image is called "Old Fences".
This attached image is a crop from a photo of the Dogwood tree in front of my home.
This attachment is a telephoto shot of one of my neighbor's horses.
This is a crop from a photo of the Magnolia tree in my yard.
A crop from a photo of the old Maple tree in my front yard.
This one is a telephoto shot of some Polk Berries along the other side of the road from my home.
A simple cropped shot out across my neightbor's pasture. In addition to the fall folage it also shows the new fence he put up and the newly paved road.
Nice photos Bill, that must be a mighty fine camera.
Thanks Larry. The camera is a Canon PowerShot SX20 IS. Very affordable compared to some other digital SLR cameras.
A maple leaf on the moss beneath one of the maple trees.
A close up folage shot usable as a repeating inverted tile fill within Xara Xtreme.
Congratulations on the new camera Bill! There's nothing quite like unpacking a new camera for the first time :D
That 20x zoom is quite handy to have built in. At best I can only achieve about 11x zoom at full resolution with something I can barely hand hold!
Hope you have great fun rediscovering the world seen through the eye of a camera!
Thanks Graeme. A new camera does bring back the enjoyment. :D
Yep, even my camera inside my telephone does.
I used t take pictures, but I never had the money to develop them.;)
So you can imagine how glad I was when digital camera's came
on the market, and I payed a hell of a lot of money for one of the first ones.
I could buy like 15 of those now for the money I payed. But it was worth it.
The only problem with those digital camera;'s is when you shoot out of a
moving car, it really distorts the picture.
But I am glad you have a new one, and you enjoy it with all the new gadgets.
I love gadgest too ;)
Thanks Denis.
About the only gadget included with the camera is a lens hood. Everything else is built into the camera body.:cool:
Very nice shots Bill. Very well done.
How much control over the shot does your camera give you? Can you control the sensitivity (ISO), Aperture (F-stop) and Exposure. Typically, that is where camera manufacturers cut corners.
Just recently, I pulled one of my old point and shoots out of it's bag. I got frustrated with the lack of control of the shot and it was back in the bag within 5 minutes.
DSLR's, medium and large formats are expensive. But they give you oh so much more control of how the shot will come out.
Hi John,
Full Control of all settings. Complete Manual Operation is available as well as Aperature Priority, Shutter Priority, Programmable settings, pre programmed settings, Full Automatic. ISO settings from 80 up to 3200.
Full specs are in the link I provided in a previous post.
I know what you mean about wanting control of the camera. If it doesn't offer a manual mode of operation I wouldn't have it. Even when I owned a Canon A-1 it was always on manual mode. My old Canon Ftb only had manual operation so that is what I enjoyed using. ;)
The above telephoto shot of the horse was taken just before this standard shot of the scene.
Bill, As you have demonstrated.... you never forget how to do it once you have learned the trade.
Great shots.
Rupert
Thanks Rupert. :)