I purchased the coolest little digital camera this week. It is a Panasonic DMC-ZS1 Lumix. It has 10.1 megapixal resolution, a 12X optical zoom, 25 mm wide angle, 3 preset aspect ratios to choose from, and approximately a gazillion preprogramed settings to make your picture taking experience a confusing but joyous event. My absolute favorite thing about it at the moment is the pinhole camera setting. It knocks down the color a notch and gives that beautiful softened and darkened edge created by a real pinhole camera. You can even get glorious closeups of flowers, bugs, still life setups, whatever, without using the macro setting. The photo above was one of my favorites so I paired it with a quote for this week's theme but I am including several more images below. I took all of these yesterday in Lowe's garden department. Click on any picture to enlarge.
I recently bought a cheap 12 megapixel Olympus camera at Big Lots. It also does great closeups with a macro & a super macro setting. I won't be getting rid of my other camera, but I really do like the new one for certain things. I could never zero in on insects and things like that with the Casio, but it does great movies. I'm disapointed with the Olympus in that regard. But I've started a file of closeups on textures. Really neat! We are so much alike it's scary!!! Mom
ReplyDeleteThanks for your nice comment.... we were a bit on the same wavelength with the pinhole camera. Your flower fotos have a lovely atmospheric quality.
ReplyDeleteReally beautiful photos, love that pinhole setting, what a great technique! That's one of the great things about living in a warmer area, up here in the NE, I think there's just paperwhites and all those other winter bulbs in our garden centers! Lovely...
ReplyDeleteBeautiful--and I think it is brilliant of you to pop in at Lowe's!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat lovely images!
ReplyDeleteThe pinhole drops the illumination at the edges? It's a great effect. I too like the one you have singled out !
ReplyDeletesweet colours and I love your left-handed images too. as a left-hander i have often struggled with right-handed drawing attempts, yours are pretty amazing! and thanks for visiting my site I really appreciate the feedback :-)
ReplyDeleteThe one at the top is my absolute favorite, very peaceful!
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