It’s Christmas Again
It’s Christmas Again
Christmas
2003 was a seminal event in my life (although I doubt I realized it at
the time). On that occasion my parents gave me a Canon Powershot
G5 digital camera. The first photo was my grinning brother seen
above. I’ve pretty much been snapping photos non-stop since then
(and put over 16 gigs on my hard drive). However, now
two-and-a-half years and over 3,000 photos later I’ve decided to
upgrade my camera. Basically, I found that the resolution and
crispness wasn’t there, plus I was trying to do things with the camera
that simply weren’t possible with it (it’s fully automatic, but the
lens and drive weren’t that great).
So
mum & dad, thanks for getting me started in digital photography,
but your Christmas present may appear on eBay soon (no hard feelings I
hope) as on the weekend I went out and bought myself a Canon EOS
20D. My god is this a great camera (Wen’s had one for a few years
and I’ve been coveting her photos since she bought it).
What can it do? Here are some photos
and here’s an explanation of why I couldn’t do them before.
First, this camera allows continuous shootings of up to 5 frames per
second, so I can literally catch waves crashing. Great range and
resolution as you can see in the photo of the crowd watching the Cup
final at Dolores Park (very cool-a guy got some of his DJ friends to
spin and he set up a giant screen!)-note that the colour’s continuous
and there’s almost no glare. Also, the camera’s really stable and
you have complete control over the aperture (up to 36 f-stops) and the
shutter (up to 1/3600th of a second). As a result you can take
great photos at night/dusk and track light really well.
I promise to take some crazy photos and put them up for everyone to enjoy.
Monday, July 10, 2006