Thursday, November 27, 2003

More Camera Trials

Yay - a taste of winter this morning. There was a heavy frost and the perfect opportunity to try out the camera in a bit of sun. If there is one thing I have learnt, you use it or lose it when it comes to the sun in November.

You may have noticed I've posting loads of pictures this week. I've been busy with my new camera, putting it through its paces. I couldn't resist this morning on the way into work, frosty leaves - the perfect way to test the Macro feature.

Verdict: Need to test a bit more - camera on standard setting and not full resolution to conserve card space. Otherwise it's fairly impressive. Focus is difficult that close but it seemed to cope well. I will have to try some more with the full quality output (once my big card arrives.)

Here are a selection of pictures with strong sun, shadows, contrast and colours. The lunch time ones (frost free) were taken on the lower economy setting. The resolution in the raw file is full but expectedly, there is noticeable compression artefacts. Nothing too horrific, but still noticeable. I was only using economy because of my space shortage.

Verdict: Nice stuff, all are taken using the automatic exposure and focus, once again, impressive results. I can't wait to get 128mb in the camera and work at full setting as the results are superb.

Finally I gave the digital zoom a go. At full strength (12x) you need a steady hand. The results are a 100 times better than my old Fuji - which only had a digital zoom (which was useless.) Once again they were taken with very low standard settings.

Verdict: I sound like I have shares in Minolta. Once again, very impressive. There is obvious interpolation in the raw file, but its really not that bad. Once again, can't wait to try it on full strength.

I ordered a 128mb card today. Luckily, just as I finished the last shot off, I popped in the Spar. Bought a drink and 2 lottery scratches. The first one turned up 25 quid, the second a quid. Needless to say I took it as a sign to get a big card. That's way too much good luck for one day, bad things will happen.

Posted by Dio Bach at 22:28

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