New Camera (warning large photos)

[Anonymous]

Well I got a new camera today, I saw an ad at Fry's Electronics for a decent mid-range camera for a decent price. It's an Olympus SP-500, Fry's had a promo price of $249 plus a 512MB memory card for free. It's got a lot of manual features that allow you to adjust just about anything you want in just about any combo of manual/auto pieces as you could imagine, shutter speed (important!) , apature size, etc. It has a up to 10x optical zoom (yummy) a macro mode and a SUPER macro mode to take pictures of something that's 3cm infront of the lens! Also it's 6 megapxiels so it takes nice high resolution pictures (well atleast compared to my 2MP olympus D380 ) Anyways it's got more features than I know right now.

But of course I just had to try out a few shots without reading through the manual
I got a few good ones, but here's a couple zoos that I took the picture of.
The size is still quite large as I didn't want to shrink the photo, although I did crop the photo so you're only seeing about 2MP worth of photo.
This is definately "show off" size


My metallic pink zoos.

Something I dubbed Orangutan Zoos (actually got these for free from Al G Blenny at the BA-CFM!)

 

[bleedingthought]

Am I the only one that can't take close ups like this?!

Beautiful pictures!

 

[Anonymous]

Well I had very few that I could take before with my limited camera (Fuji FinePix S3000), with this new camera I have a lot more control over many aspects like shutter speed, aperture, focus point (even manual focus). That and more mega pixels just naturally gives more details, that 2 megapixel image above was cropped out of a 6 megapixel image, so it's just a small portion of the larger picture.

Still working on going through the glass though at an angle though as there seems to be a bit of a haze regardless of how I focus.

 

[bleedingthought]

Going through the glass is probably my problem.

Also, there should be the same amount of pixels in every part of a picture, so if you just crop it, it'll still be the same. Unless you did something else, right?

 

[Anonymous]

Well what I mean by the image pixels is that that picture taken with my 6MP camera will have a lot more detail than my 2MP camera taking the same picture. The physical size on the screen is just a result of their being more pixels overall even if the same coral is pictured in both. So where as the above picture is 2 megapixels (about 1600 x 1300) the same one taken with my 2MP camera would be maybe 700 x 485) not to mention I have honest to god lenses to zoom in closer too where as my pocket cam does not.

 

[Anonymous]

Wahoo, Mike's got a camera I know your new job for BAR :lol: