Friendly doorway
A side door of one of the apartment buildings I often walk by. Sometimes I've seen people here in all the chairs and more standing around. Apparently quite a friendly, sociable group of renters.
This is probably my last PowerShot A590IS flickr picture, because late this afternoon I returned the defective camera for a full refund. The day after purchase its zoom lens started lurching uncontrollably and the playback of stored pictures often refused to work at all. The A590IS has many features I like, and a few that annoy me, most of all glare that often obscured the display (I sure have been spoiled by my the digital viewfinders in my two Olympus digital cameras). The construction on the one I happened to get felt light and shoddy, waiting for a bump or simply a little more use for the next feature to stop working. I'm sorry to give up its portability, but it didn't feel like a camera I could depend on (like my Olympus SP-550UZ, so far).
By the way, you can easily see the barrel distortion along the top edge of this A590IS shot. My SP-550UZ also has some barrel distortion, it seems hard to avoid in wide angle lenses, even those for SLRs. This A590IS picture was shot at its most wide angle, which is about the equivalent of only a 35mm lens (slightly wide angle) for a old 35mm film camera.
Friendly doorway
A side door of one of the apartment buildings I often walk by. Sometimes I've seen people here in all the chairs and more standing around. Apparently quite a friendly, sociable group of renters.
This is probably my last PowerShot A590IS flickr picture, because late this afternoon I returned the defective camera for a full refund. The day after purchase its zoom lens started lurching uncontrollably and the playback of stored pictures often refused to work at all. The A590IS has many features I like, and a few that annoy me, most of all glare that often obscured the display (I sure have been spoiled by my the digital viewfinders in my two Olympus digital cameras). The construction on the one I happened to get felt light and shoddy, waiting for a bump or simply a little more use for the next feature to stop working. I'm sorry to give up its portability, but it didn't feel like a camera I could depend on (like my Olympus SP-550UZ, so far).
By the way, you can easily see the barrel distortion along the top edge of this A590IS shot. My SP-550UZ also has some barrel distortion, it seems hard to avoid in wide angle lenses, even those for SLRs. This A590IS picture was shot at its most wide angle, which is about the equivalent of only a 35mm lens (slightly wide angle) for a old 35mm film camera.