New camera and a bunch of photos

May 11th, 2007  |  Published in Photography, Pictures  |  5 Comments

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So after researching and reading and agonizing over which little point&shoot camera I wanted to pick up, I finally settled on the new Nikon P5000.

Major feature rundown:

  • Weighs around 280g with battery and memory card. Super light.
  • It’s 3.9 x 2.5 x 1.6 in. Tiny, but not so tiny that it’s awkward to hold/use.
  • Excellent ergonomics/design. Controls are intuitively laid out, easy to access and use, and the menu system is very nice.
  • 10 megapixel.
  • Kick ass macro mode.
  • Automatic, semi-automatic (Shutter priority and Aperture priority), and full manual mode. I used full manual mode for all the pictures I took this morning, and it’s dead simple to use.
  • Drawback: no RAW support. This is a bit of a drag, but is the only drawback I’ve found so far.

All that aside, here are the shots I took while walking home from my doctor’s appointment this morning: May 11 walk.

Random note: turns out using the “Rotate picture” feature on Flickr completely hoses the EXIF data for those images. I’ll have to re-upload the ones that need to be rotated.

Responses

  1. Lilandra says:

    May 11th, 2007 at 12:48 pm (#)

    I’ve heard of this camera.
    But I’ve never noticed that rotate on flickr messes up exif.
    Now you have me curious to go check!

    Congratulations!

  2. Cozby says:

    May 12th, 2007 at 9:14 pm (#)

    Wow, some great shots.

  3. Cozby says:

    May 12th, 2007 at 10:14 pm (#)

    Wow, some great shots.

  4. dria says:

    May 12th, 2007 at 11:36 pm (#)

    Thanks :D

  5. dria says:

    May 13th, 2007 at 12:36 am (#)

    Thanks :D

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