Quoth Alan Brand:
>On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 01:42:52 -0400, Anen <amagee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>You have the advantage of living in (or near) a large city. I don't
>>know of any source of digital cameras here other than Futureshop. Or
>>maybe Black's.
>
>Oh yeah, Owen Sound is a bustling 21,000. But we do manage to sustain
>two real camera stores in addition to the chain store Black's and
>Business Despot outlets.
As far as I can tell from yellowpages.ca, the only privately-owned
camera store is Harvey Studios. I've always known them as
photographers but apparently they sell cameras now too.
>>>The S2 is a nice
>>>camera, but showed me another base requirement - I much prefer dark
>>>gun-metal to ****ny silver!
>>
>>I prefer the dark metal too. Feels more like a "real" camera.
>
>True. And it's much less noticable, so candid shots are easier.
Also it fails to resemble my car. Which is silver. Like most other
cars on the road. I hate it.
>>There's got to be a nice balance between number of buttons and
>>usefulness of menus. Too many buttons have you pressing the wrong one
>>all the time.
>
>I find the menus incredibly annoying - buttons are more my speed.
Menus are OK for things you only do once in a blue moon. Like format
the card and set the date and time.
>>Does it let you make your own set of default settings? One thing that
>>annoys me in my current camera is the flash. It defaults to "auto". I
>>turn it off, but every time the camera is turned on, it's back to auto
>>again.
>
>Allegedly, but I'm still in early learning mode and haven't tried it
>yet. The flash doesn't flash if you don't lift it up yourself.
Ah! Perfect.
>>>>Anne, camera-wanting girl
>>
>>AlanB, camera-wielding girl
>>
>>I'm still wielding Michael's old Nikon 950, which, except for the
>>battery door problem, is solid and reliable. But it *is* old and
>>there's a noticeable lag between the time you push the button and the
>>time it starts to take the photo. Since my current interest is
>>photographing dogs and since dogs move very fast, I end up with a lot
>>of shots of empty space where a dog used to be.
>
>"S****t" mode and "burst" (continuous shooting) are your friend.
It only takes maybe six pics in burst mode before it has to stop and
spend 3 hours saving them. Well, maybe more than six, but not many.
And maybe less than 3 hours, but it feels that long. And of course the
dogs do all kinds of cute and interesting things while the images are
being saved, then disappear as soon as it's ready to start shooting
again.
Anne
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