Since TS is such a photo-buff, and he's taught me a thing or two on the trips we've taken to India, Oz and Thailand, my little digital IXUS just seemed a bit inadequate. It take great idiot proof pictures, but I felt a bit left out when we were shooting a great sunset and I couldn't add any manual functions. So in a little trade-up (Thanks Taylors), we've gotten ourselves a Canon PowerShot S3 IS.
It's not an SLR, but it has plenty of manual functions and a 12X (!!!!!!!!!!!!!) optical zoom as well as super-macro mode (I LOVE taking things up close), and most-importantly, I can switch it to full-auto mode in the event that I'm lazy, TS is not around to tell me what settings to use, or I discover that my attempt to manually control the images turns out crap.
Anyway, taken about 50 photos so far, and most of them suck. It seems I should have read the manual first. The only three (half) decent ones follow.
Ok, so I promise to take more lessons and brush up on the technical details, cannot wait to get to Australia in 3 (!) weeks.
PS, the new S5 is out. It's 8 megapixels vs our 6, and has an attachment for a slave (?) flash, plus some kind of updated processor, but for 20% less money we thought we'd just get this. Anyway, we can always find someone to help us UPGRADE when the time is right....
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Mmmmm HOMEMADE nasi lemak. Jealous!
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