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| In the woods with the new camera |
When I took the picture below a month or so ago with my old camera I remember being REALLY happy with it. And it is a good picture, but look how it compares with a similar picture from my new camera (above). The new camera is just so much sharper and vibrant.
Yesterday I played around with the new camera trying to take close ups. This is where my old camera (Olympus TG3) excels. And I really can't take the close up macros that the old camera was so good at. With my old camera I could get super close and then zoom in even further. And it also had automatic focus stacking to get everything in focus.
Yesterday I experimented and learned some things about the new camera. While the minimum focus distance is only about 8 inches and no zoom - so no close ups of small flowers - it does have a super sharp lens. Also I have much better aperture control. I can set it to f 16 and get everything in focus with a huge depth of field, or I can set it to f 1.7 and blur the background with a short depth of field. I found that I can still take plant close up photos - it is just that they are a different 'type' of photo than the ones I took with my old point and shoot. I also learned that on the new camera I had to use the manual focus. But I like this - it means I decide what is in focus.
Another big discovery is that I can really push the ISO on the new camera and not have it degrade the quality of the image. With the old TG3 if I pushed the ISO setting I ended up with really grainy and muddy pictures. Not so with the new camera. It has a full sized sensor so I guess it is better at low light pictures. I set the ISO at 3200 and took a bunch of close ups. The high ISO let me set the aperture to f 16 and still take pictures at a relatively fast shutter speed.
I can't wait to try taking pictures inside at night and see how people pictures look at a high ISO setting. Patrick
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| In the woods with the old camera |
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| Lily Pads |
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| Background intentionally blurred with a somewhat short depth of field (f 1.7 was TOO short) |
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| Shot at f 16 to increase depth of field |
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| I took this one of Pushki seeds at ISO 3200! |
Interesting comparisons. The woods photo does point up the difference between old and new. It's always exciting to get a new camera. And then learn all about how it might work best to deal with the tasks you need it to deal with both near and far.
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