New Toy

So Simon has gone and got­ten new toys to enthuse him to reg­u­larly take pho­tos and use on his trip. That was enough encour­age­ment for me to finally go get a new camera.

Well some time ago I said I was going to get a new cam­era to take every­where with me. My Canon G2 is still a great cam­era and does everything I want, unfor­tu­nately weigh­ing in at over 500g it is not a drop in the pocket and take every­where cam­era. I star­ted look­ing for a small digital cam­era that shot RAW format (very lim­ited options) or had aper­ture pri­or­ity (again very few options). In the end I decided size mattered more than those fea­tures and I was going to settle on a hope­fully indes­truct­ible Olym­pus 720, until I walked into the cam­era store and saw the Sam­sung digimax i6, it was the size I wanted (tiny), has a three times optical zoom (all I need) and some cute tricks, it records video, audio, plays MP3s and even plays back movies (after con­vert­ing any­thing Win­dows Media can play into Sam­sungs pro­pri­et­ary format on a Win­dows machine). So I have a new toy and it does do a decent job of tak­ing pho­tos, the Beau­c­ott Build­ings in Mt Law­ley (there is some­thing about type).

Update 7 Sept noon: I need to work on that photo, the cam­era might be respons­ible for a little over­sat­ur­a­tion, but the sky was that blue, late in the after­noon. My main prob­lem is the jpeg com­pres­sion, I need a decent size photo and com­press­ing it to 100k is caus­ing the jagged edges.

Update 7 Sept 1400: Upgraded the image quail­ity (now 200k) to see if that fixes the problem.

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