Geek gadget alert
Ouch, it's been ages since I last posted anything. It's not even that I haven't had anything to write about - it's probably more like that I have done more things that equate to "having a life", I went to Norfolk for a long weekend which was brilliant, and work has been insanely busy, so I have been too lazy to write blog postings. But now I'm back because the novelty of "having a life" has worn off (I'm not actually that sad, honest :-) and I have to have an outlet for my new hobby: my brand new camera.
Yes, I have taken the big step, raided my savings account and finally upgraded my camera to something a little more modern (although my old camera was only 4-5 years old, that would make it an antique in digital camera terms, and I've been looking with envy at what everyone else's cameras were able to do for quite a while). So I bought a brand new camera this week. Since the two things that most annoyed me about my old camera were the frustrating (lack of) zoom and (equally lack of) wideangle lens, I went all the way and bought one of those super-super-zoom hybrid cameras: the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ18.
It is absolutely brilliant actually. On my daily walk through Hampstead Heath (I walk 5 miles to work everyday now, very healthy - and relaxing) I tried to take pictures of the local wildlife before, but what you could see was usually *random landscape* with black dot in the middle where you tried to zoom in on some animal. This time you actually could see the animal in the picture. A novelty! I was 20 mins late for work and got mistaken for a birdwatcher, but hey.
Anyway, here are some of the photos. I actually feel quite lucky that I get to walk past all this on the way to work everyday, despite living in the Big Smoke!
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Great photos! I love them.
I had the same kind of problem with my old camera; It didn't have zoom lens. (^ - ^) So last year I decided to buy a new camera (with zoom lens, of course!). Only regred of this purchase is that I didn't really know about cameras so I chose whatever was available with the reasonable price. Most of the time I am safisfied with it, but sometimes think I should've paid more for a better ones. But again, I didn't know anything about cameras any way... so I am better off with one I own right now.
I plumped for the FZ8 in the end. The 48x zoom is just too good to pass up, when compared to the Canon's 16x or so zoom. Having seen some shots around the web (Flickr is great in that you can browse photos by type of camera, isn't it?!), I think I am going to like it.
Looking forward to it arriving. Can't wait. I need to do some serious testing and learning very quickly, as I am doing a wedding early in June with it! ;)
Hope you receive it soon, is the wedding the same one you were making all the name cards for?