rollingstone
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by rollingstone on Sept 13, 2005 16:26:33 GMT -5
After 4 years of great service, my 2.1 megapixel Olympus D510 camera is showing its age, so a few days ago I replaced it with a 5 megapixel Canon Powershot S2 IS. What a bewildering array of options... you can modify just about anything you can think of, this is going to take time to figure out. Have to play with it to learn the controls, but here's some of my first shots. First, this is a shot of ocean jasper taken with the old Olympus camera, that I had posted a couple weeks ago. This was near closest focus on the old camera:  Looking at the same stone in the centre of the pic using the new Canon in "super-macro" mode, I can easily get closer:  With 5 megapixels to play with, I can digitally magnify the image quite a bit for closer views (sorry about the dust speck):  And to go ridiculously close for an alien like view of a small part of that same piece of OJ:  Well, that might have limited usefullness up that close, but I thought it was cool anyway. |
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phoenix1647
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by phoenix1647 on Sept 13, 2005 16:30:40 GMT -5
ain't it fun to play with new toys? congrats on the new cam..I know you will get a lot of good use out of it.
Pho
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Post by Cher on Sept 13, 2005 16:33:24 GMT -5
Totally awesome, congrats on the new cam, now we
expect professional type photos all the time. *smile*
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Post by gaetzchamp on Sept 13, 2005 16:34:10 GMT -5
Now we will just expect lots and lots of photos. Don't be afraid to practice and post them picts. We love rock porn......
gaetz
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Sabre52
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Me and my gal, Rosie
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Post by Sabre52 on Sept 13, 2005 16:47:54 GMT -5
Great photos! Especially the closeups. Love seeing all that detail! I still haven't figured out all the options on my camera and now you've made me want to get a new one! Keep on shooting...mel
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Post by krazydiamond on Sept 13, 2005 18:56:23 GMT -5
thank goodness for your post! i'd thought that after my Sony Cyber Shot kicked the (photo)bucket i wouldn't be able to find another camera even close that could take good close ups!!
thank you, thank you!
KD
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Debs
fully equipped rock polisher
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Post by Debs on Sept 13, 2005 21:19:07 GMT -5
Cool camera pics! Love the detail you can get with that. Keep posting those pics. Okay, now I want one! ;D
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Post by rockyraccoon on Sept 13, 2005 23:30:35 GMT -5
love that close up look. we want more!
kim
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Post by joe on Sept 13, 2005 23:36:20 GMT -5
Great new camera! Those close ups are impressive. If you are interested in selling your old camera (kinda cheap  ) please let me know. Joe |
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Post by sandsman1 on Sept 13, 2005 23:38:16 GMT -5
hey rollin very nice pics that must be some camera
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HarryB41
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Post by HarryB41 on Sept 14, 2005 6:52:00 GMT -5
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stefan
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Post by stefan on Sept 14, 2005 7:42:55 GMT -5
WTF was that last shot?  Man I could see the dust mites on that speck of dust- Totally awesome- Man I want a new camera! Gotta get one for Christmas? maybe my Birthday? Hey I know the MEGA MILLIONS is up to $250,000,000 So if I win- Cameras for everyone!!!!! |
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Post by Tweetiepy on Sept 14, 2005 12:03:20 GMT -5
Hey Rolling, so glad you got a better camera, cuz you know your other pictures were just soo awful!  Love the closeups! |
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Post by stoner on Sept 14, 2005 22:25:50 GMT -5
Nice shots RS. You're gonna love playing with the new camera. I've had mine for about 3 months, and I'm still learning new things with it.
Have fun,
Ed
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rollingstone
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by rollingstone on Sept 15, 2005 3:30:40 GMT -5
Thanks for the replies everyone!
Now that I've had a couple more days to browse the camera's manual, I'm coming to the conclusion that the manual suffers a bit in the translation from Japanese. I've found one very glaring error, and several other things that are at best iffy. On the plus side, the internal camera menu-screen directions (available in 21 different languages) appear to be very straightforward once the user (me) becomes adept at using the basic camera functions, and they don't seem to suffer from language translation problems, at least as far as I've seen so far.... which of course means reviewing only one language (English) out of the 21...
I hope to experiment with more pics soon. I just need this rainy/cloudy/dull weather to go away so I can actually get some decent light for pictures.
Highly patterned stones will of course make for the best close-up pics, so I'd better get to tumbling more agates and jaspers. Well, after some initial playtime, I suspect the super-macro feature will be used only occasionally, but it should always be a handy feature to have around for when I do polish a batch of strongly-patterned stones.
To Joe, sorry, but the old camera has already had dibs put on it by my daughter and her pals, plus I see myself taking it on somewhat camera-risky outings... the beach, fishing trips, etc.
Tweetie, LMAO! ... thanks!
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Post by creativeminded on Sept 15, 2005 8:55:54 GMT -5
That is way too cool. My parents just got a new digital camera so I got their old digital camera. My dad was reading through the instructions on their new camera and finally had to quite because he couldn't use some of the functions as he was going through them.
Tami
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) please let me know. 
Man I could see the dust mites on that speck of dust- Totally awesome- Man I want a new camera! Gotta get one for Christmas?
