I don't remember when I got my current camera, four or five years ago I guess. I really like it,
but it is on it's last leg. I don't mind the scratches and the dents...
But on the Wytheville ride this year I started noticing a blob when there was sky in the picture...
I tried to clean it off, but to no avail... I guess there's some goo inside, or maybe the sensors
(not that I even know what "the sensors" are
) are going bad in one place... it seems to be getting
worse...
So I ordered a $80 Sony DSC-S2100 from Amazon... blegh... no where near the camera as my
old Canon... I studied all the specs, the Sony was much better in every area except F-stop, it
was way worse there...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-numberAnywho, I returned the Sony and got the current version of the same Camera I had, now it is a
SD4000... I just now got it and ran out and took a few pics, it seems real good
...
One thing I like to do that the Sony was awful at is crop pictures. We all have to resize our pictures
to make them Internet worthy, nobody wants to download a bunch of 12 megapixel photos with
someone's post... cropping is a way to focus in on the interesting part of a picture and make it
small at the same time... but the cropped Sony pictures were all pixelated... icky... Here's a massively
cropped picture from the SD4000 Canon...
Most of South Carolina looks like this at this point...
Here's my driveway
Here's how far the Mini made it on Wednesday... I hoed out all that mess so I could
back it back to near where it was supposed to be...
Anywho... I think I like this camera... it is in a plastic housing, not aluminum, I guess it won't dent,
hope I don't break it!
-Mike
