Here's some azaleas blooming out in front of casa del Bart. Straight forward, this isn't the sort of thing that gives me trouble at all.
Here's one of Scheurholz Field, the baseball park at TU, from the University Union balcony. I wanted to get a decent shot of those sprinklers at the back fence, but the zoom is pretty rudimentary. Maybe 3x.
The destruction of the Lida Lee Tall building. First step, paving the way for a new liberal arts building. Focus seems a bit wonky to me on this. I think the cars in the foreground threw off the autofocus.
A Bart's Eye View of my workshop, from my desk. Here's where things get weird...to look this good, I had to throw on the "nightscape" scene. So it looks like my office is in full light, when it's not. At all. The only light in my office is from a desk lamp and monitor. So...not exactly what I was going for, really. I do like the neat effect it gives to the overhead fluorescent in the workshop. But if I were to try to take it natural, the autofocus can't settle, and if it does, it takes forever and a day. Considering the amount of low (not no) light pictures I like to take, this is a problem for me.
A Bart's Eye View of my work bench. Relatively clean, too. Once again, relatively straight forward, and the camera handled it well.
A macro shot of pair of wires on a shelf above the workbench. The macro function works fairly well for the point and click nature of the camera, I think. I know it surprises me sometimes. But again, the autofocus takes forever and a day on this kind of shot. I'm not talking a couple of seconds, I'm talking minimum of ten.
So, there we are. Make of this what you will, faithful few.
Yo, Bart-Man,
ReplyDeleteYep, I'm back to haunt you, buddy. Great to see you speeding past the 2000-hit mark now.
Mate, your camera's doing a great job. The shot of the azeleas was really interesting because the camera sensor ``thought'' its way through the problem of combining the band of strong sunlight and the shadier section with the flowers. Congratulate the gardener at Casa Del Bart.
Like you, I also like taking pictures in low light conditions and different cameras handle this differently, even the most expensive ones. I guess it's all about working around a ``perceived'' shortcoming.
I wouldn't buy a camera purely for a better zoom. Honestly, I reckon you'd use a zoom maybe 4-5 times out of every 100 shots.
The macro shot worked well and the colour definition, even in flash conditions, seems well balanced.
Some colours and tones often get washed out when using the flash, but your shots seem fine.
Mate, don't let me stop you from buying a new camera if you really want one, but I reckon you are doing fine.
So there!
David
Well, it wasn't like I was going to just get rid of this one. But I wanted to "step up" my interest in photography, and honestly, there's only so much I can do with the CoolPix. But it's a good "stick it in your pocket" kind of camera, though The Queen has a much better digital for that purpose just because it's not as awkward as the CoolPix is. And to think, that was a really small camera back in the day when I bought it.
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