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Tuesday night follies.
Mar. 24th, 2009 09:15 pmAnother night of fun with o-daiko stands, another night of profound right handedness. I was Just Fine (TM) until Sean-sensei decided to try to teach us some side-stance moves on o-daiko and I sucked muchly. Ah well. Nowhere to go but up. ;-D
Took the Fujifilm Finepix F100 with me and took a few test photos down at the Point after class, using the sunset and night modes. It's fully 1/3 smaller than my old Fujifilm Finepix 3800. This means it'll fit in a pocket and be more likely to go places with me. I like the fact that the on-off switch is not a knob can be inadvertently knocked into the "on" position while crammed into a coat pocket or bag, draining the battery. It doesn't have a viewfinder, but the LED on the back is a generous size. I definitely need to get the hang of the very sensitive zoom lever, learn my way around the menus and get a feel for how fast or slow the shutter reacts, but tonight's experiments were a good start.
Curious about the image stabilizaiton features, I deliberately did not try to hold the camera terribly still on certain shots - and it shows. However, when I was more careful:
Using internal memory only, I got about 20 shots before it asked for a memory card.
The Asian Art Museum is open late on Thursday evening: maybe I'll head over and try some low-light shots of the permanent collection - this camera actually has something called "museum mode!" And perhaps a zoo trip or something this weekend.
This 12 megapixel thing though. This computer is OLD and it takes time to upload files this big. Come to think of it, the memory card that was just fine for the 3 megapixel 3800 is going to fill up pretty quickly.....
Took the Fujifilm Finepix F100 with me and took a few test photos down at the Point after class, using the sunset and night modes. It's fully 1/3 smaller than my old Fujifilm Finepix 3800. This means it'll fit in a pocket and be more likely to go places with me. I like the fact that the on-off switch is not a knob can be inadvertently knocked into the "on" position while crammed into a coat pocket or bag, draining the battery. It doesn't have a viewfinder, but the LED on the back is a generous size. I definitely need to get the hang of the very sensitive zoom lever, learn my way around the menus and get a feel for how fast or slow the shutter reacts, but tonight's experiments were a good start.
Curious about the image stabilizaiton features, I deliberately did not try to hold the camera terribly still on certain shots - and it shows. However, when I was more careful:
Using internal memory only, I got about 20 shots before it asked for a memory card.
The Asian Art Museum is open late on Thursday evening: maybe I'll head over and try some low-light shots of the permanent collection - this camera actually has something called "museum mode!" And perhaps a zoo trip or something this weekend.
This 12 megapixel thing though. This computer is OLD and it takes time to upload files this big. Come to think of it, the memory card that was just fine for the 3 megapixel 3800 is going to fill up pretty quickly.....
