New Camera

For my birthday Dad very kindly got me this new camera. It's the Panasonic FH1. He asked me what colour I wanted and after looking at the list of colours they came in I chose orange and he was not particularly happy. He kept asking me whether I was sure and I really wanted a camera that was different.

Taken with old camera (focus problems with 2nd pic which I couldn't see due to tiny screen)

So far it has been pretty good. The screen is way bigger and better than the old camera. There are tonnes of modes. Can't change any of the settings I don't think (except for ISO) Macro is pretty good. And it takes alright pictures in low light conditions as seen in the japanese restaurant post. Quite easy to use and many times lighter and thinner than old camera. Oh and there's a food mode =]

This is the old camera. 5mp compared to 12mp now. Photo quality is a little worse than new camera but not very differentiable until low light conditions. My favourite function on the old camera is the manual focus, so fun to play with. However you can see the old camera is a BRICK. Not pocket friendly.

Do you get what I mean by the screen is tiny? Can't tell whether the picture is good or not using that screen. Oh and it has a viewfinder which dad loves.

New Camera except it ain't mine

My dad bought a new camera, Canon 550D, he's been raving about it for months. Now he finally has his own.
Still learning all the buttons and functions and all that. Can't really say anything bad about the camera. However Dad bought a lens that isn't designed for my type of photography except for maybe sunsets. The closest distance it can shoot is 20cm or so, meaning it it extremely difficult to take pictures of FOOD and FLOWERS, my two favourite subjects to capture. Hopefully Dad will get a macro lens =] Also my laptop can't read the HD SD card cos it's probably too old. Turns out the only things that can read it in the house is the plamsa TV and the netbook, the two extremes of screen size. So hopefully I'll have some better looking pictures soon. Have a look at my flickr account for a few photos I've taken with it.

Also since Dad, my bro and I constantly fight over who's turn it is to play with the camera, I really want to get my own DSLR, hopefully I can win one.....I'm dreaming.