October 2006

New Camera! After months agonizing between a DSLR (multi-thousand dollars, heavy, expensive lenses, dirty sensors) and the Panasonic Lumix FZ50 - I opted for the $600 FZ50.

Let's see if I made a good choice.

Tue 10-31-06 100 percent crop of quilt-corrected<br />
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OK, weird shot, I know. It's 11:15, last day of the month, and I haven't taken anything to post. So I'm playing with manual focus, zoom and flash, and I take a picture of a quilt on my office chair - about 4-5 feet away. I'm astonished at the quality of this shot. This is 100% crop at full original size - no noise reduction, just a curves correction and a small amount of sharpening. This is just regular cotton fabric - the little pink blobs are actually about 1/8" diameter.<br />
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I think I'm going to like this camera a lot! Just need to learn its quirks.

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Tue 10-31-06 100 percent crop of quilt-corrected

OK, weird shot, I know. It's 11:15, last day of the month, and I haven't taken anything to post. So I'm playing with manual focus, zoom and flash, and I take a picture of a quilt on my office chair - about 4-5 feet away. I'm astonished at the quality of this shot. This is 100% crop at full original size - no noise reduction, just a curves correction and a small amount of sharpening. This is just regular cotton fabric - the little pink blobs are actually about 1/8" diameter.

I think I'm going to like this camera a lot! Just need to learn its quirks.

tue 100 percent crop quilt correctedjpg

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