Steve's Digicams Photo of the day
This is nice. I like a good macro shot. This is a particularly striking set of colours. Taken with a Sony S75, which is not a camera I know a lot about. Steve's Digicams gave it a positive review, back when 3.3 megapixels was a lot of pixels.
If I've got a problem with Sony (and I have) it's that their product naming is particularly bad. The S75's successor would seem to have been the S85, but even that was a couple of years ago, and after that the S-series seems to have run out of steam. Sssssssssssss...
Sony might offer you a DSC or a DCR or a Mavica range of digicams. I expect they know what they mean by all the different acronyms, but I certainly don't. This kind of random chopping and changing of product names and ranges is not unique to Sony, but they probably lead the world in it.
I generally don't like Sony's styling, and their cameras always strike me as being gimmicky consumer electronics things before they are tools for taking photos, but I know that side of things does appeal, and the results (see link) speak for themselves.
The other problem I have with Sony is their "Not Invented Here" philosophy. Memory sticks? Puhleaze. If they used one of the other industry standards I'd look more kindly upon them.
Digital photography opens up whole new worlds, simply because you can take your time getting the good shot. What always used to bore me about keen photographers was the amount of time they spent setting up shots. But when you're paying for the film and the developing and printing, and don't know how it's going to come out until it is developed, then that's a natural consequence.
A natural consequence of instant gratification digital photography is that you can keep shooting until the ideal shot turns up on the LCD screen. And then take a couple more for good measure. So you suddenly find yourself crawling around looking for grasshoppers, or dewdrops on flowers, and you can keep doing that until you achieve satisfaction. So that's one reason so many of the Photos of the Day are macro shots. And you can do it with the most basic of cameras.
The other thing I see people getting into over the next year or so is underwater photography. Say you're on the beach next year and you see some crabs in a rock pool. Why not stick a camera in the water and take a few shots? You've been able to buy single-use underwater cameras for a while, but again, you can't see the results until they're developed. You can get cheapo underwater digitals now for under 100 GBP, or you can buy an enclosure (say, for the Fuji F410) that you can use when the occasion demands.
Sony do a little 2MP model for underwater use, which is just over 220 GBP. I think once you can get 3 megapixels for about the same money, people will latch on to it. Look out for pictures of seaweed, coral, anemonies, and unbarbecued prawns turning up on Steve's Digicams.
If I've got a problem with Sony (and I have) it's that their product naming is particularly bad. The S75's successor would seem to have been the S85, but even that was a couple of years ago, and after that the S-series seems to have run out of steam. Sssssssssssss...
Sony might offer you a DSC or a DCR or a Mavica range of digicams. I expect they know what they mean by all the different acronyms, but I certainly don't. This kind of random chopping and changing of product names and ranges is not unique to Sony, but they probably lead the world in it.
I generally don't like Sony's styling, and their cameras always strike me as being gimmicky consumer electronics things before they are tools for taking photos, but I know that side of things does appeal, and the results (see link) speak for themselves.
The other problem I have with Sony is their "Not Invented Here" philosophy. Memory sticks? Puhleaze. If they used one of the other industry standards I'd look more kindly upon them.
Digital photography opens up whole new worlds, simply because you can take your time getting the good shot. What always used to bore me about keen photographers was the amount of time they spent setting up shots. But when you're paying for the film and the developing and printing, and don't know how it's going to come out until it is developed, then that's a natural consequence.
A natural consequence of instant gratification digital photography is that you can keep shooting until the ideal shot turns up on the LCD screen. And then take a couple more for good measure. So you suddenly find yourself crawling around looking for grasshoppers, or dewdrops on flowers, and you can keep doing that until you achieve satisfaction. So that's one reason so many of the Photos of the Day are macro shots. And you can do it with the most basic of cameras.
The other thing I see people getting into over the next year or so is underwater photography. Say you're on the beach next year and you see some crabs in a rock pool. Why not stick a camera in the water and take a few shots? You've been able to buy single-use underwater cameras for a while, but again, you can't see the results until they're developed. You can get cheapo underwater digitals now for under 100 GBP, or you can buy an enclosure (say, for the Fuji F410) that you can use when the occasion demands.
Sony do a little 2MP model for underwater use, which is just over 220 GBP. I think once you can get 3 megapixels for about the same money, people will latch on to it. Look out for pictures of seaweed, coral, anemonies, and unbarbecued prawns turning up on Steve's Digicams.
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