My new camera.

I recently wrote about my new point and shoot Nikon.

 

For anyone who might be curious, I ran into a very detailed review of it.

Here’s the link to photographyblog.com:
Nikon Coolpix P100 Review

New Camera Part II

So, I originally bought Fuji Finepix S1800 for my birthday, but the pictures weren’t coming out very crisp.  In fact, I thought they were blurry under many instances that should have produced nice pictures.

Fortunately, I bought the camera from Costco, and they have a 90-day return policy on electronics.  This is an outstanding policy, because it sometimes takes a long time to figure out if a piece of equipment, like a camera, will do a good job.

I decided to go with a Nikon P100 10 megapixel 26x Zoom camera.  The Fuji was 12 megapixel with 16x zoom.  The megapixels didn’t matter as much to me as the picture quality, and the difference in zoom was phenomenal.

I took some pictures this weekend and thought I’d post a couple so you could see how good they turned out. Most of the pictures I took were outside, and looked great even without the flash.

The duck and the rooster I took at wheeler farm.  I was at least 40 yards from the duck and 20 from the rooster.  The details in the feathers are great and the colors are really rich.

This is the Angel Moroni Statue on the top of the Salt Lake LDS Temple.  I was at ground level about 5 floors down to the east of it. I was worried the statue would be indistinct and washed out by the sun, but the details and color turned out pretty good.

So, I think this new camera is a keeper.

Wicked robosculptures

I'm not sure I really need one of these.

I'm not sure what kind of furniture I'd have to go along with this.

I am sure my wife won't let me have one in public.

Make: Online : Wicked robosculptures

Gone Fishing

Lately, I’ve just been sharing links to articles or other blog entries that I’ve found interesting. In an attempt to keep this as more of a blog than a Internet Travel Log, I’m going to attempt to generate better content.

To that ends, I’m going to post some interesting pictures that I take. I recently got a new camera.  It’s a Fuji Finepix S1800. I’ll post a more intense review later as I learn the ins and outs of it.

We went to the aquarium the other day and I got a couple of nice pictures. I thought I start out my new blogging resolution with these:

The picture above was untouched.  I thought the camera did a decent job.

This lion fish picture has had an auto contrast filter applied. The original contrast wasn’t that much different, but I wanted to see how different the cameras “natural” settings were from Picasa’s auto contrast filter.

Feel free to comment and let me know what you think about the way cameras process images versus photo editing software. I think I may also look at the different ways photo editing/cataloging software treat images.