Happy New Camera

[jacey]

I couldn't resist it. My mum gave me a cheque for Christmas and there was this gorgeous little Samsung 12 megapixel camera on sale in Dixons for half price - which came to one penny less than the amount of mum's cheque. I folded. (My previous digital camera was a whole 2 megapixels.)

I'm now trying to learn how to use it. This is yesterday's view from the bedroom window to Rusby Wood, deeply frosted.





And for some reason there's a bird's nest sitting in the middle of our lawn:


Even the weeds were frozen.

 

Comments

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

It looks cold in those pictures, especially the first and the last.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

It was definitely below freezing, but not damp and very still so I was out in the garden in just a jumper and it didn't feel particularly cold even though everything was crunching underfoot. (Of course I didn't stay out long.)

I'm still trying to get beyond the point and click stage and the software that comes with it isn't very intuitive. Luckily I have photoshop.

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

Congrats on joining the club!

Go and read the manual. It is rather daunting, and you will take weeks to remember even most of it, but it will tell you a bewildering array of option you might never have considered existed. It's well worth doing it in order to master all those settings.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

My previous digital was a Fuji 50i - brilliant for its time, but now sadly outdated. The Samsung is the P1200. The manual is a bit daunting and I barely understand the software (even downloading and deleting the images on the card is not instinctive and I've instantly resorted to the card-reader slot in my laptop instead of struggling with it) but I think there's some good fun to be had.

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

I had a very early digital - great for instant gratification, not great for anything else. I found the manual on my DSLR *very* daunting at first, but I wanted to make the most of it rather than leaving it on full automatic, so I had to learn.

And it's card readers all the way here - *much* faster.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

My new laptop even has a built in card reader that works for my kind of card (though it's not backwards compatible with my older one).