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Camera dithering
Nov. 16th, 2010 08:56 pmStill dithering on cameras. At the weekend, my front-runner was the Panasonic FZ45, so I headed into town to try to handle one, only to find that no-one stocked one. (I did, though, palm loads of stuff off on Oxfam, and eat the Biggest Chicken and Bacon Pasty Ever, so the trip wasn't wasted.) However, one place had the FZ100, which is similar but better (and therefore more expensive.) Extra features include HD video, which I doubt I'll use, but also include an angleable screen, which is a feature use quite a lot in my current camera. It also allows you to take loads of pictures per second, which might be useful when photographing Morris dancers, who invariably manage to look entirely lumpen and static when you take a single picture of them. But now I'm wondering if I really need a 24x zoom, anyway, and whether I ought to go something smaller. The physical size isn't an issue, though, since I've always carried my camera around my neck, and don't expect it to be pocket-sized.
But, as Pellinor says, perhaps my part in this decision is over, and it's down to the people who are buying this thing for me...
Apparently lots of people don't bother with a camera at all nowadays, and just use their phone. I had a little play with my phone's camera today, while walking back to work after dropping the car at home mid-morning. I'm not impressed by the results. However, it wasn't helped by the fact that all the controls are on the touch screen, which went completely illegible in the sunlight. I managed to shade the screen enough to spot a +/- key, which I assumed was zoom, but it turned out that it was brightness. (The picture of the lance was zoom, of course.) As a result, I now have loads of very over exposed images of very distant misty cobwebs. Plus, getting the pictures off my phone and onto my computer has involved nearly an hour of frustrating wrestling with a very unhelpful website and some even more unhelpful software. But after all that work, I'm jolly well going to post something, to make it feel at least remotely worthwhile.
( The fruits of my labours )
But, as Pellinor says, perhaps my part in this decision is over, and it's down to the people who are buying this thing for me...
Apparently lots of people don't bother with a camera at all nowadays, and just use their phone. I had a little play with my phone's camera today, while walking back to work after dropping the car at home mid-morning. I'm not impressed by the results. However, it wasn't helped by the fact that all the controls are on the touch screen, which went completely illegible in the sunlight. I managed to shade the screen enough to spot a +/- key, which I assumed was zoom, but it turned out that it was brightness. (The picture of the lance was zoom, of course.) As a result, I now have loads of very over exposed images of very distant misty cobwebs. Plus, getting the pictures off my phone and onto my computer has involved nearly an hour of frustrating wrestling with a very unhelpful website and some even more unhelpful software. But after all that work, I'm jolly well going to post something, to make it feel at least remotely worthwhile.
( The fruits of my labours )
