Friday, June 28, 2019

Some Eye Candy

Getting camera peripherals organized...ha ha.
I had my small point and shoot Canon at the recent mud-bath event - another time another story - and an elderly gentleman (probably my age) came up with his Canon DSLR model and looked at me and asked what I was shooting with and we discussed briefly photography and cameras. He admitted, and I have NEVER had a man photographer admit this to me, that he usually shoots in Auto mode with his big fancy camera! I explained that with my point and shoot I do not have to worry about too many settings, but my Canon DSLR is usually in Aperture mode. I have gotten comfortably used to that. I admit that I rarely use about 75% of the camera's marvelous settings.

Due to an upcoming trip this fall I have decided to buy a "bridge" camera which means you get the advantage of a DSLR without the weight of too many lenses.  I now have that new camera with its attached lens and it is a different brand from my Canon and absolutely a complete difficult change for an old lady like me. 
(If you are totally uninterested in photography you can scroll to the bottom for your reward for my sitting in the heat and humidity in the mornings and trying to figure out why this does not focus easily!  It is one of the stupid 100 settings, I know.)   

The photographers' group online recommended that I download the 400-page guide from some guru. The brand is a Sony and most of the professional photographers in the group have told me it is a devil of a camera to learn.  I downloaded some guide...not sure it is the one they recommended but am having a heck of a time getting the focus I want. For those of you who know anything about cameras and want to drool the non-removable lens is a 24mm-600mm. Takes a lot of battery power to drive this.

I have also set it to silent mode, which means if I am not careful, and I do try to be careful, and shooting in sports mode and failing to turn it back I get 25 shots of the same thing! When you do not hear the clicking noise, it is both a pro and a con.

It does weight slightly less than my Canon and they say it is super weather sealed.  Anyway, I have a steep learning curve ahead before my October trip and already my computer is getting too full of images.  Now the next step is to buy more memory?  I deleted almost 1,000 digital images today and I stopped shooting in RAW/JPEG and just shoot in RAW.  

OK, now for the reward of some eye candy;  my yard is brimming with butterflies!













 

17 comments:

  1. My point and shoot Cannon is heavy and old. Those are it's only problems. We bought a fancier Canon, and we forget to use it. LOL

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  2. Yes, the pictures are wonderful.

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  3. When I bought a compact to go with my DSLR, I stuck with Canon with which I was more or less familiar. Not sure if they have a zoom quite like that though. Have fun.

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  4. Beautiful Butterflies, taken with your new Canon, can't beat it.

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  5. Yeah, I went right to the eye candy and definitely worth it. Beautiful!
    "an elderly gentleman (probably my age)" -- this is an expression i have caught myself saying lately,

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  6. Great photos. Your garden is alive with beauty on wings, tiny ones!

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  7. Beautiful butterflies and great camera! Good luck learning to use it. :-)

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  8. I am finding that I use my iPhone 8 now more that my Nikon DSLR. It sure is easier to pack around, and the photos are quite good in most settings. My most recent posts are iPhone pics.

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  9. From my untrained eye, you are learning very well!

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  10. OK... I'm definitely impressed. Those are amazing photos. However, my brain is not good enough to grasp all the settings. My Canon point and shoot did well enough for me, but now my iPhone XR takes much better photos.

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  11. I can see you are going to have a lot of fun with that new camera! You (and it) have taken some beautiful images. Your experience with depth of field obviously paid off, I love that one.

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  12. Wow! The sharpness and color are fantastic!

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  13. oh gorgeous pictures. we're not getting any butterflies this year so far. seen a couple of swallowtails and the little hairstreak and some skippers but that's all. as for cameras, just give me a point and shoot.

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  14. If you took these with your new camera it looks like you are getting the hang of it. They are very good. I find a DSLR easier to use than the bridging cameras because the buttons are easier to find than scrolling through the menu. But I agree they are heavy for trips. I often just use my phone if I don't want to carry a camera and hen use processing to bring them up to scratch. 24 to 600 is impressive. Is it analogue zoom or digital zoom?

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    1. It is a real zooom lens and does not process in camera. I am surprised that I can actually hand hold it. It is not as sharp as with a tripod, but I am impressed.

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  15. Your pictures are really fantastic. I agree that if you are using your new camera, you certainly are doing well with it.

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