Playing with my new camera.

[Dennis S]

This is part of the thread I copied and saved for my Ref.

This is part of the thread I copied and saved for my Ref.

PLEASE ENJOY IT IS A GREAT CAMERA:

CAMERA
I got the Canon PowerShot Pro Series S3 IS 6MP with 12x optical Image Stabilized Zoom.

The S3 has an incredible optical zoom, and an in-camera digital zoom on top of that. I was testing it out in our back yard and made some incredibly close-up shots of a baby robin, and shots of a garden spider tight enough to count the eyes.

Noni then took it on a cruise to Alaska and loved it.

It incorporates the same sort of Image Stabilization technology that Canon uses on their professional cameras, which will open up a whole world of low-light telephoto shooting for you.

It also has a great video camera feature, but get big cards (1g) if you plan on using it.

The only downside to the S3 is the noise that creeps in at about 800ISO. Try to keep it down to 400 or so for best results.

If you want to make really, really nice prints, purchase a piece of software called Noise Ninja. It's a remarkable noise reduction application that saved my butt on one very large assignment that was nearly killed by noise. It's a Photoshop plug in, and I don't know if it can be used as a stand alone. Check their web site.

Someone mentioned dpreview earlier. That's a great resource.

Enjoy the new camera! Interesting that you laned with the same one I did for Noni.
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[Mary]

Thanks, Dennis.
I will check into the Canon.

Do you mind repeating which one you bought?
I think both cameras must be excellent from the caliber of the pictures I've seen.

 

[geebee]

Ellie was practicing to have cofee with her friends. I am sorry I couldn't get her there.

Almost as good as the real thing. Maybe next time you are in the area.

Thanks for the photos.

 

[Phyllis]

The photos are beautiful, Dennis - remind my of my DIL's father's pictures who is into Nikon digital cameras big time. He made us a present of a D100 many years ago and he gets every new Nikon that comes out. One of the forums he pointed us to is : http://www.nikondigital.org/discuss/ubbthreads.php
and I think you might enjoy it. I emailed you once long ago with his information, but if you would like to get in touch with him , pm me and I will give you his email address. He is very much into taking photos of flowers and animals and his favorite is to go to the West Palm Zoo on photo shoots- and of course his favorite subject is his grandchildren when they are visiting.

 

[Dennis S]

Well:

Well:

Thanks, Dennis.
I will check into the Canon.

Do you mind repeating which one you bought?
I think both cameras must be excellent from the caliber of the pictures I've seen.

To begin with, I have a very indulgent wife. Except for the pictures I have posted in the last two weeks, you are looking at pictures that were taken with the Canon. It has a great zoom and takes great pictures. One thing I haven't been able to show on the forum are the movies you can take with it. You would want a large memory card, but the sound and picture of the movies astounded me. You just turn the dial to the little "movie camera", hit the little red "record" button and you are in business. You can zoom in and out, etc. I haven't seen its equal for movies.

The Canon does a great job with close-ups as well. I have large hands, and the camera body is a little small--which means I sometimes have pushed buttons I didn't mean to push. You can minimize that by being careful. Also, I think the lens cap comes off too easily, so you need to watch that a little.

I would say this is an ideal camera for 99% of us--but more importantly, Stretch said the same thing about this camera.

As I said, I am blessed with an indulgent wife. I knew nothing about photography before my AVR surgery. Since then it has become a great interest. Well, I was reading about digital SLR cameras and became very interested. There were some good deals on some of the Nikons. Based upon my reading, I bought the Nikon D40 DIGITAL SLR CAMERA w/18-135mm lens. That is the camera I have been using for any pictures I have posted in the last two weeks. So far I am loving the pictures.

I don't see one of the cameras as totally replacing the other, but I really love the Nikon right now.

I have always purchased my equipment from B&H photo over the internet. They are reliable, and I trust them. I believe Stretch mentioned in another thread that he purchased his equipment from them. If you have other questions, please let me know.

 

[Karlynn]

i am sure her mother (my daughter) would like for me to make it perfectly clear that that there was no actual consumption of coffee by the 2 year old in this picture . Apparently Ellie & Karlynn consume their chocolate milk with similar gusto!

My Mother-in-law always says she doesn't remember a time she didn't drink coffee. Being Swedish, she was raised on a cup of coffee with lots of milk from the time she could hold her own cup. I, on the other hand, have had probably a total of 1 cup of coffee in my life. Love the smell! Hate the taste!