Cameras

Jason · May 25, 2004

jbond sent this magnificent photo to me so I could post it for everyone to see. This shot couldn't be more perfect! jbond, you have a postcard-perfect photo!

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Thanks so much for sharing this photo with us, jbond!!

jbond · May 27, 2004

Thanks Jason.

A lot of people criticize digital as not being as good as 35 mm. I disagree, and for me the great feature is the stitch/panorama. The St Thomas photo would be very difficult to take using a 35mm film camera, for me impossible. Even with a 28 mm WA lens you could only get just over a third of the photo from where I shot it. I used it quite a lot on our cruise, but I've got to start making notes of which ones are pans, as I'm getting confused by all the photos that look very similar. :huh:

scapel · May 28, 2004

Elena,

You need to get a 256 mb also. You should probably have at least two more 128 meb recording media. You will want to shoot all your pictures at max resolution so you can print them. Remember you can delete pictures and recover space if you did a bad picture.

scapel · May 28, 2004

Do you get any blurring when you shoot 10x from shaking. Does it have image stabilization. My Canon S40 is very good at 4 Mega pixels but it only has 3-1 zoom.

My Sony Digital Video has 10-1 zoom, but image stabilization helps on my shake.

jbond · May 28, 2004

My Nikon has an 8X zoom and with the telephoto adapter it goes to 12X. It doesn't have stabilization. :cry: However, if I'm using that long a telephoto lens, I switch to shutter priority and shoot at a minimum 1/250th sec. I also don't use the LED viewfinder, I use the eye piece and find that much easier to control the camera.

Elena, We just got back from a 15 day cruise, total 18 day vacation, and I used two 256 MB cards. I shot at 5 MP and normal quality, that gives me about 215 images per card and as scalpel says, you can delete unwanted photos.