Comments | lonecow: Camera considerations

lonecow

Camera considerations

Apr 21, 2007 21:48

I don't get to talk to my parents much though they call every day, mostly because I'm usually out of the house. Uni and work and other things haven't meant much free time at home, really.

Today though I did get to talk to them a bit. My aunt and cousin have headed back to Durham, I think they spent a week in London with my parents, though I'm not ( Read more... )

pepito

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ahsavka April 21 2007, 13:28:09 UTC

I've only recently started watching your journal, but had pretty great success with my Canon Digital Elph. I've heard the PowerShot is pretty great, too. I dropped my Canon (sob) and it was fine, and later it was dropped about 10-12 feet from high atop a tree-stump and the little beast is perfectly fine. Very solid, for those of us who bring their cameras to high places and then drop them. (Augh, it still hurts my heart I'm so embarrassed by it. Why did I not put on the little wrist-strap, I almost always do ...) Cough. Anyway.

Canon FTW.

lonecow April 22 2007, 00:34:05 UTC

Thanks for the recommendation. :)

I also feel pretty embarrassed about dropping Pepito - I was just reaching for the camera strap when he slipped out and fell. But it's good to know Canons will be able to take quite more of a beating, if it does happen.

doubtful_salmon April 22 2007, 06:06:56 UTC

As a regular SLR owner...I dunno, I guess it kinda depends on how big your purse is, but I brought it around Louisiana with me everywhere I went for a whole week and it was never terribly inconvenient (except the nature of my purse was such that whenever I wanted to use the camera, I would accidentally knock half of my things onto the ground). It's really not too bad to carry around ( ... )

doubtful_salmon April 22 2007, 06:10:43 UTC

Oh, and I meant to say, RAW vs. JPG:

RAW isn't lossy. At all. RAW will give you results much, much closer to film. JPG eliminates redundant information, so it is lossy. The image will be naturally lower quality (and everytime you save a JPG, it drops in quality--so if you edit in Photoshop or something, you'd want to save it as a lossless TIFF or something to preserve what you have).

Personally, though, unless you plan on becoming professional or making massive prints, which it doesn't sound to me like you do (and if you do, probably you'll want a better camera anyway), an option for RAW files is unnecessary.

dave_t_lurker April 22 2007, 09:02:41 UTC

I've been using a Nikon dSLR for about a year now - I love it. The only downside is that it is a bit too big for general carrying around. I'm very tempted by a smaller point and shoot for day to day snaps.

RAW vs Jpeg is usually explained as the difference between negatives and prints. I've been shooting RAW a lot lately, but processing the files can take a long time (I need a faster computer).