Posted on 04/22/2010 4:10:44 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER
When I bought my Sony DSLR I hung on to my Panasonic FZ30 and my old Olympus c2100. Sometimes I want to travel light and there are situations where the smaller camera gets results with less effort. The rose is from the Panasonic, amaryllis fron the Sony.
I'm on my second FZ30 I ran the first one until it stopped, lots of shots.
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Very nice indeed!
ML/NJ
I have a Sony DSLR.
I love the camera and the zoom but it can be a pain to lug around sometimes.
I had a small Nikon but a New Zealander bumped into me and the camera fell into The Water out in front of the Venetian hotel in Vegas.
It was sad seeing the lcd glowing down there in the blue water.
I cut mty leg real bad jumping in to retreive it.
To avoid the hassle of dragging my wife’s Nikon DSLR, I recently bought a Fuji F70, not quite the reach of a 300 mm, but a very nice 28mm wide angle on the 10X zoom lens. So far I’m quite satisfied.
Nice shots, but I don’t understand what your question or comment might be. But then again, I am rather dense.
But yes, if you want to travel light and will be shooting in very, very good light, a digital bridge camera is hard to beat.
If, however, you will be shooting in dim light, than a DSLR will give you shots with much less noise, especially if you shoot RAW, which many/most non-DSLR’s cannot do.
Another point to consider, if it’s a “once in a lifetime” trip, I would take both. You never know when your DSLR will give up the ghost (as happened to me), and then you will appreciate having a second camera with you.
Just my $0.02 worth.
1938 Rolleiflex.
Great camera!
The Panasonic shoots RAW. Most of the time if I do my job RAW doesn’t improve results that much.
There’s nothing quite like being forced to buy camera equipment while on vacation.
Talk about getting hosed.
Once in LV some clown salesman went from 200 to 175 to 150 to 100 and finally 40 for a wide angle lens.
I still walked.
Have you seen the new Fuji H10? More zoom than the Hubbel scope and super IQ. I was sceptical until I saw some images, it is really excellent.
The Canon G11 (their flagship point and shoot) went to 10 Mega-pixels from the previous G10’s 14 Mega-pixels, to try and improve on low light image quality.
The new micro-four thirds may be the wave of the future. Size wise it they are just slightly larger than bridge cameras, but with a much bigger sensor to improve low light performance and the ability to swap lenses.
Remember when all we used to have was one lens, usually a 50mm f/1.8, and we would zoom with our feet.
I'm impressed with 4/3 but I'm not about to start collecting new lenses, I'll stick with Sony?Minolta combos.
I just knew that was California, but I checked any way. Reminds me of my childhood. Gorgeous.
I love it. It’s square, correct? Medium format 6x6?
i really love this photograph...especially with the fire hydrant in the corner.
That is so true. I have an old (ancient in terms of digital photography) Sony point-n-shoot box that’s 3.3megapixels, and I generally like the images it captures better than the ones my wife gets with her very new Sony point-n-shoot with, I think, 10mpx.
It was very a poor quality lens.
Some no-name jap (china) brand.
Between the smell of the spring air blowing in, The serious need to get away i just talked my GF into canceling our boring 4 1/2 hour drive vacation in the Catskills July 5th.
Las Vegas here i come!!
2 free nights and 2 nights for 40 bucks at Harrahs.
80 bucks for four nights.
Early Southwest flights for 189 each way.
I remember when they used to be $90.
LV might be getting a little boring but so what, It beats the Catskills.
WOOHOO!!
Beautiful pics.
Terrific depth of field. I usually can’t get those results.
Sharpest lens I recall ever seeing was an Exacta 35mm SLR my brother had. He bought it used in the ‘50s.
The pics were extremely detailed.
He dropped it over the side on a canoe trip.
If you ever need a replacement for the FZ30, I have one that was driven by an old lady to church on Sundays and she didn’t bother going all of the time. (I actually bought it new and it is my favorite go everywhere camera.) I might be persuaded to let it go. I stopped my camera collection fit with a FZ18 and haven’t bought a new camera for 3 years or so.
In stock
Fuji F10
Panasonic’s
FZ5 Wife has put about 25,000 shots on this one and still loves it.
FZ18
FZ30
Canon Digital Rebel with EFS 17-85 stabilized lens. Love the pictures, but it’s a beast to carry.
Full Camera details: Rolleiflex Automat II, 1938, f3.5 Schneider Kreuzenach Tessar Jena.
Here's another, and I'll make it large. Check out the color!
The film is so big, when you enlarge the scan, you can read all the embossing on the hydrant. Infinite detail!
Hang on to it, they don’t make them anymore.
LOL, I can’t think of anything in Vegas that wouldn’t bore me and irritate my senses. Drop me off in the woods with some beanie weenies and granola bars anytime at all!
My buddy has some land in a forest in NH.
We camp there all the time.
I gotta get back up there soon before hussein bans camp fires.
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