Experimenting

[mbarrick]

OK, I finally got one of the batteries charged and took my first few pictures with the new camera. Behold the art that is the first picture with the new camera:

Yes, I accidentally hit the shutter button and took a picture of the floor. It was an auspicious moment. But it is a really high resolution picture of the floor. This is a crop from the unresized version of the photo above. Eight megapixels of carpet and cat-hair!

In keeping with photographic tradition I naturally took about sixty pictures of the cat. Seriously. Sixty. One of the things I was playing with was the burst mode. I bought fast memory and can get somewhat over 3 frames a second at full resolution  - which is about ten times faster than my old camera. No more cursing missed shots at fashion shows. I've included this one to show something else that I am drooling over: depth of field. Note how Tharsis' face is in focus but the papers he is sitting on are not. Achieving this is no longer something that requires effort.

This rather blurry mess hearkens back to one of the first photos I posted when I got my old camera, which was a 4 second exposure. I was excited because the old camera could do up to a 16 second exposure. Above is as 30 second exposure (hand-held, though a closed window - so it is utter crap) and the new camera has a bulb mode, i.e. no limit. I could shoot star tracks if I wanted to.

And, getting the hang of it now, this is an indication of what I can do in the dark with this camera.