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Reading Lindskold's new book, Dragon of Despair. More than halfway through it. Love it. Absolutely love it. Also love my library. This is slow going as it is in competition with the camera for my attention (otherwise it would have been finished by now), so I just went online and renewed it through the 28th. I should actually finish it next weekend, I'm thinking. Good book. I won't buy it in hardcover, but I will definitely be getting it on paperback, unless she drops android orgies in the end of it or the like (this is a fantasy novel, by the way). From the distinct lack of agonized shrieks from another friend when she read it, I'm assuming I need not worry about robots invading the plot. ;)
Packed up the laptop (as I'm on call) and hauled it with me to the Gardens this morning. Played with the new camera there. I may put some pics up from that, may not. It likes to let the sky get way, way too bright on auto, blowing out all the detail and lightening up the rest of the scene more than it needs. It likes to do that with anything bright, really - it apparently likes bright to be blinding. Other than that, which I think I can control (got some good shots - as far as tonal values, my framing stank - in spite of it at the Vietnam Veteran's memorial, once I knew to watch for it), I'm pleased. I'm going to need more memory, I think. 256 sounds like a lot, but even if I take only "fine" pictures, that's 130 images or so. If I want to go into "hi" mode, it isn't even close. But I hate to get more cards. Spendy. We'll see.
I do like the improved controls. The coolpix 990 that dad loaned me was cool. This? Ever so much more easily used. I especially like the ability to go into modes where you can set one item and it auto-adjusts the others to the scenes. Particularly "shutter speed" - say, while photographing koi, in shadow, under the water. Koi do not hold still. I don't care what the light levels are. Tripod or no, the fish move. Strangely enough. With this, I can force it to snap fast enough to get the things, and it does its best to correct - which yields an acceptable picture, dark, but not so dark as to lose details.
Packed up the laptop (as I'm on call) and hauled it with me to the Gardens this morning. Played with the new camera there. I may put some pics up from that, may not. It likes to let the sky get way, way too bright on auto, blowing out all the detail and lightening up the rest of the scene more than it needs. It likes to do that with anything bright, really - it apparently likes bright to be blinding. Other than that, which I think I can control (got some good shots - as far as tonal values, my framing stank - in spite of it at the Vietnam Veteran's memorial, once I knew to watch for it), I'm pleased. I'm going to need more memory, I think. 256 sounds like a lot, but even if I take only "fine" pictures, that's 130 images or so. If I want to go into "hi" mode, it isn't even close. But I hate to get more cards. Spendy. We'll see.
I do like the improved controls. The coolpix 990 that dad loaned me was cool. This? Ever so much more easily used. I especially like the ability to go into modes where you can set one item and it auto-adjusts the others to the scenes. Particularly "shutter speed" - say, while photographing koi, in shadow, under the water. Koi do not hold still. I don't care what the light levels are. Tripod or no, the fish move. Strangely enough. With this, I can force it to snap fast enough to get the things, and it does its best to correct - which yields an acceptable picture, dark, but not so dark as to lose details.
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