Nice Camera

[LaGirl]

i have a nikon d80. GREAT CAMERA!!!!

[tamor]

Good pics Margie. But it's easy when you've got a good model. She's a cutie!

[Praxeas]

Margie, I went ahead and bought that cam last night. It was the last one left. It's a great camera! I love it. BTW You said you were shooting a wedding, do you know what settings you would use?

[CC1]

Prax,

I don't know anything about that camera but I can tell you this - try not to fall in the rapids and go over a small waterfall if you are ever in Scotland and have your digital camera in your shirt pocket.

The ten or fifteen minutes until you escape your deadly circumstances clutching to the side of the waterfall are too many minutes for your camera to be underwater.

Although my camera dried out and continues to take pictures something messed up in the circuit board or wiring and the battery will not keep a charge. I thought it had just ruined the battery and bought a new one but it does the same thing. You can charge it up and immediately upon unplugging it the camera will show the battery almost depleted and you can only take a handful of shots before it goes dead. Arghhhhhh..

At least since the new camcorder got completely washed away into the Loch I didn't have to worry about whether it would work again or not.

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by CC1

Prax,

I don't know anything about that camera but I can tell you this - try not to fall in the rapids and go over a small waterfall if you are ever in Scotland and have your digital camera in your shirt pocket.

The ten or fifteen minutes until you escape your deadly circumstances clutching to the side of the waterfall are too many minutes for your camera to be underwater.

Although my camera dried out and continues to take pictures something messed up in the circuit board or wiring and the battery will not keep a charge. I thought it had just ruined the battery and bought a new one but it does the same thing. You can charge it up and immediately upon unplugging it the camera will show the battery almost depleted and you can only take a handful of shots before it goes dead. Arghhhhhh..

At least since the new camcorder got completely washed away into the Loch I didn't have to worry about whether it would work again or not.

lol...I remember years ago at Magic Mountain someone was on the Revolution and at the top of the loop is camera went flying away...

[Margies3]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

Margie, I went ahead and bought that cam last night. It was the last one left. It's a great camera! I love it. BTW You said you were shooting a wedding, do you know what settings you would use?

Prax, I'm experimenting with settings right now. I've played with it for a couple of hours today. Lots of fun! I suppose I will use a big variety of settings, depending on what shot I want to get at the wedding.

Did you know that you can set the camera up to take pics in Sepia tone? And a whole host of other intensities as well. That is going to be fun to play with.

I took some photos today of my lillies using different settings for each one. It was pretty amazing how different each shot looked even tho they were all taken with the same lense, from the same spot. Unfortunately, by the time I got around to doing this, it was getting towards dusk. So I'm going to go out tomorrow when the sun is bright and see what happens.

You didn't get the camera bag that came with the package deal, did you?
Did you buy your camera at the store or online? I bought mine in the store, but we ordered it online, then I picked it up immediately at the store. If I had just bought it through the store, it would have cost me $90 more than ordering online. The store here was great about working with me on this.

[MissBrattified]

Jeff has a Sony Cybershot H1 , and its an awesome camera. I LOVE it! The pictures are SHARP, up to poster size. It takes fairly decent video as well.

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by Margies3

Prax, I'm experimenting with settings right now. I've played with it for a couple of hours today. Lots of fun! I suppose I will use a big variety of settings, depending on what shot I want to get at the wedding.

Did you know that you can set the camera up to take pics in Sepia tone? And a whole host of other intensities as well. That is going to be fun to play with.

I took some photos today of my lillies using different settings for each one. It was pretty amazing how different each shot looked even tho they were all taken with the same lense, from the same spot. Unfortunately, by the time I got around to doing this, it was getting towards dusk. So I'm going to go out tomorrow when the sun is bright and see what happens.

You didn't get the camera bag that came with the package deal, did you?
Did you buy your camera at the store or online? I bought mine in the store, but we ordered it online, then I picked it up immediately at the store. If I had just bought it through the store, it would have cost me $90 more than ordering online. The store here was great about working with me on this.

I picked it up at Circuit City instead of ordered it online. It was 90 off and saved shipping. It did not come with a bag. So I had to get one separate. The cam was 609$ before tax. The only problem I have is focusing with the zoom lense at far distances sometimes and seeking the AF stuff in the view finder out in the sun. Otherwise this camera is the best I have ever had.

I took a shot of a moving car and it was perfect. I especially like the continuous auto focus mode. Rather than what we normally do with point, auto focus then shoot, this one you can hold the button part way down on a subject and as it moves it continually refocuses..awesome! And the shutter and storage is fast.

I'm still learning all the ins and outs

[Praxeas]

You know, now that I think of it, the guy did give me a 10% discount when I bought a bag and extra battery and the memory card
This is my bag, but mine is black, the EX 160. I think the sale item was the 120

and the extreme 3 Compact Flash which is 20 Megs per second read/write...which is 133X speed. I didn't purhase their warranty plan thing. I've never ended up using those things by the time they expire

[Margies3]

That looks identical to the camera bag I ended up getting. It was $49.00.
I had already bought their package deal which included a $39 bag and a 1G memory card for $59, so when I returned the first bag, I just added an extra $10 and got the bigger bag. The memory card on it's own was $29, so I guess I saved a few pennies. Nothing to write home about.

I'd love to see your pic of the moving car. I think I'm going to go out this afternoon and try doing that. Or maybe while the kids are playing baseball or Keith is riding his electric scooter. This is going to be so much fun!!!