Camera-geeble

[jethrien]

I love my camera, I love my camera, I love my camera!

My old camera had all kinds of fun functions which I never really used to their full advantage - really learning and having it stick involves taking dozens of rolls of film with copious notes so you can actually see later what changing various parameters does. This camera does lots of the same things, plus extras, but with the instant gratification of letting me see what just happened when I changed the ISO or whatever.

(Yes, I realize that I'm, like, four or five years late to the party. Shaddup. Leave me be, with my lovely lovely camera I love.)

Of course, I haven't actually printed anything yet or anything. And I don't make any guarantees that I won't want an SLR at some point in the future. But right now, I'm happy.

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[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

I got the Lumix LZ8 for Christmas this weekend and have been having fun with it since. I definitely still want an SLR one day, but this is what I'll be carrying around with me all the time, and it seems to give a fair amount of control over how pictures will turn out. I still have a lot of experimenting to do.

What function are you using more of so far? Manual, aperture, or shutter priority? Or just automatic?

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

So far, I have no idea. I took it out in the snow on Friday without having cracked the manual, and so was shooting entirely on automatic because I couldn't figure out what all the buttons did. (There was an initial attempt which resulted in a lot of gah! What was that? What did I do? Why's it all yellow/black/moving?!? So I switched over to easy mode before I ran out of lunch break.) I spent an hour or two last night actually reading through the manual and playing with everything. But I haven't actually used the camera under normal conditions and knowing what any of the functions were.

I think what I'm most excited about is the ability to control colors. A lot of the pictures I've been disappointed with in the last couple years have either been shots in our apartment (whose lighting comes out very yellow unless you do a lot of tinkering) or outdoor shots where I remember the colors as vivid and they came out washed out. I love that I can tell the camera what kind of light I'm shooting in (tungsten! flourescent! sunshine!) and that I can manually change the color saturation.

I suspect that the majority of the pictures will end up being manual, because a lot of my pictures are casual pictures of friends and the like - quick snaps without a lot of fiddling. But being able to get vacation pictures to come out right, or being able to feel like I can take 20 shots of that flower with a dozen different settings without wasting time and money printing two dozen shots for one good one - hurray!

Camera's coming with me to my parents - hopefully I'll get some more time to play.

[lithoglyphic.livejournal.com]

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