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sally_mariaIs mostly looking at pictures of Bradley James playing football. (iz incurably shallow. ;-D)
But we did go out to look at cameras, as mine is 6 years old and Mum had said she would get me a shiny new one for my birthday in a couple of weeks.
I wasn't looking for anything too unnecessarily complex, as I'm pretty much a point and shoot photographer. I also knew that there was little point going for a camera with a vast number of megapixels, as I wouldn't be using them - what's the point of creating pictures that are bigger than some of the programs on my computer, just to put them up online or occasionally print them at normal photo size.
I was looking for a decent amount of optical zoom, though, as it's the thing I regret most about my old camera - there are times when being able to zoom in properly on things would have been a godsend.
So after looking at what was on offer, I decided on the Panasonic Lumix DMC FS6
8 megapixels, which is more than enough for me to use most of the time, 4x optical zoom, rather than the usual 3x at this level and while the Leica lenses are made by Panasonic rather than Leica themselves, it's nice to see them bothering about the standard of the lenses at all in a basic camera like this. It has a quite a few settings to play with, if I feel like it, but will also work most of the time as a point and shoot camera. I haven't really tried it out much yet, but hopefully I'll be better at remembering to take it places than I have been with the old one recently.
But we did go out to look at cameras, as mine is 6 years old and Mum had said she would get me a shiny new one for my birthday in a couple of weeks.
I wasn't looking for anything too unnecessarily complex, as I'm pretty much a point and shoot photographer. I also knew that there was little point going for a camera with a vast number of megapixels, as I wouldn't be using them - what's the point of creating pictures that are bigger than some of the programs on my computer, just to put them up online or occasionally print them at normal photo size.
I was looking for a decent amount of optical zoom, though, as it's the thing I regret most about my old camera - there are times when being able to zoom in properly on things would have been a godsend.
So after looking at what was on offer, I decided on the Panasonic Lumix DMC FS6
8 megapixels, which is more than enough for me to use most of the time, 4x optical zoom, rather than the usual 3x at this level and while the Leica lenses are made by Panasonic rather than Leica themselves, it's nice to see them bothering about the standard of the lenses at all in a basic camera like this. It has a quite a few settings to play with, if I feel like it, but will also work most of the time as a point and shoot camera. I haven't really tried it out much yet, but hopefully I'll be better at remembering to take it places than I have been with the old one recently.
