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Sony DSC-WX220 bought for the sum of thirty quid. This little camera will live in my pocket. I bought it to be a crossover between my iPhone and my Olympus Pen. The Olympus is an amazing piece of kit, with incredible imaging, but far too big for daily use. The iPhone has been frustrating me for a while. Although the image quality on the iPhone 6s is decent, the lack of zoom, tiny storage and woeful battery life have just got too painful for me. Too many times I've seen a cool shot that's just been out of reach of the tiny sensor and poor zoom. So many occasions I've not had my DSLR but needed more than the iPhone. I now have a solution and I'm pretty chuffed. .
So far this little Sony is awesome. It's tiny. Bloody tiny. It fits easily in a pocket no problem. The main reason it's great is that it packs a 10x optical zoom. I'll be using this all the time while on the move. The flash is decent, auto focus is fast, 1080 video is smooth and the built in WiFi makes sharing easy. I know compact cameras are dying off thanks to the smartphone, but I'm bucking the trend. I'll continue to use my iPhone for snaps for sure, but I'll be using this camera a hell of a lot too. For £30 I'm proper amazed at this tiny camera - all good. .
Blimey this has turned into a bit of a blog post, besides photography really isn't about the kit. It's the least important aspect. The best camera is one you have with you. . .
unintentional multiple exposure shot. it's not even possible to have multiple exposure shot on olympus XA4.
We were on a boat and some idiots were feeding these gulls. Then they tried to stop, pissed off those gulls.
Can the Powershot G11 be considered to be part of the EOS lineup, since it supports the Speedlite EX series?
A photo from my old and beloved Sony DSC-W100. After months of struggle, it finally died for good. I wrote about it on my blog:
"I always bought a lot of cameras. I could never decide what I liked, could never decide what I wanted or needed. Sad really, I've wasted so much money on cameras it almost isn't funny. It definitely isn't funny. I at one time would carry two Leica M9s with different lenses so I wouldn't 'miss' anything. 20k of kit and did it make me a better photographer? No. My photos weren't better. It was ridiculous.
A couple of summers ago, I was starting to get out of this. Mostly because I had sold off my expensive Leica gear to pay for going back to school. That summer, I traveled back to my home province of #Newfoundland. Drove halfway across Canada. I didn't even take that many photos on the way. I didn't really like photography much anymore even though it was supposed to be a project.
After being there for a couple of weeks, I was going somewhere with my aunt and she asked me to look for her keys under the seat of her car. Next to the keys was this old digital camera. A #Sony dsc something-or-other, I pulled it out. To my surprise it turned on, ha. My aunt joked that it had been there for a winter, or two. It kept me occupied for the 15 minute trip. I don't know what I loved, I just loved how it worked. It reminded me of the old Ricoh film cameras I had once used. Simple settings, one click for everything. Viewfinder. The first photo I took of my cousin next to me (I'll post it next- the last fish photo was from this as well) is a very important one for me. I started to take photos again. I took photos of everything for the next two weeks. I took the @artisanandartist strap off my Leica and jimmy rigged it to work on this one. Strap surely cost more than the camera. Cameras really don't matter. At least 'good' ones don't.
During the last two years, I've learned more from this camera than any other. It allows me to not think, which is the way photography should be. I should take photos as I feel like it and it has taught me to try and take good ones without thinking too much. The camera died for good (I believe), and it is a sad day. I don't talk about gear much, but I sure loved this camera. And owe it one. It got me back into loving photography.. RIP little dude."
There is more on my blog including many of my favorite photos from that camera:
jtinseoul.wordpress.com/2015/04/30/so-long-friend-death-o...
May 1, 2015.