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Camera mishap!
About a month ago, I had an "accident" with my Sony DSLR. Getting
forgetful in my old age, I had been taking some pix of the Jeep, and
left it on the front bumper...
Yep, you know what happened
next. About 2 miles from the house, slowing down to a stop sign on a
slight downhill. Recovered the camera. It had broken the battery door
and battery latch off, smashed the lens, ejected the CF card off to
Goddess knows where, and put a few scrapes on the body...
I was *VERY* lucky. The rear LCD was intact, the buttons and controls were intact, and the lens was a $50 "kit lens", *NOT* my uber expensive Sigma wide angle or other lenses I have - from "fairly cheap" to very pricey!
I bought the camera in 2008. Being that its a digital device, it's worth nothing today - so I made that work for me. I bought a parts body for $26, that probably works Ok, but I removed the damaged parts from it to refurbish mine. In addition, I bought the next newer model for $65, and it came with a somewhat better kit lens that covers the same focal range as the broken one - plus some.
But it gets better. The next newer model has the capability of accepting a vertical grip - something I remember wanting for my original back in the day - so I went shopping. $150 for a used vertical grip - except for a brand new one located in our "favorite Asian country". What it was doing there, I don't know, but it was $50/shipped. It arrived today, and its fantastic!
This actually turned into a blessing in disguise:


Sheet of paper under the cameras is the instruction sheet for the vertical grip - in Russian and several Oriental languages! Had to look it up online to get the English version.
Camera to the left in both shots is the original, Sony Alpha 100, with the Sigma 17-35 lens; to the right is the new(er) Sony Alpha 200, with an original Minolta Maxxum 70-210 "Prosumer" constant F4 lens from 1985.
I only wish I had Zee's talents!
-Zorba, "The Veiled Male"
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
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I see things every day that would make for great pics. It would be extremely hazardous to attempt photos from my vantage point.
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
I would like to get a better camera for my travels, but i like my PnS for compactness and ease of carry.
whats the saying goes, the best camera is the one in your hand. So thats why i do what i do and have what i have.
my bro did the same with one of his hunting rifles, but instead of putting it on a bumper, it was leaning against his car and drover over it.
but thats has my bro written all over it.
- Don Burt
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
Worst that could have happened though was I would have been out $35 and somebody else might have been out a tire.
Mike
N454casull
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
Many moons ago when I was a commercial HVAC tech I stopped by my aunt's house to fix her air conditioner. I left my brand new 18V DeWalt hammer drill on the side of my utility body service truck and drove off. I remembered it within a block but it had already fallen off and I never found it. I guess somebody saw it fall and was quicker than I was.
My largest SLR lens is 800mm, even with a 2x extender it does not come close to the p 1000.
Image quality isn't as good on the p 1000 but you can get shots you would not be able to get.
If you shoot raw like I do you can tweak the focus and come close.
You can do things like this with ease. You used to need a studio and pro software to play like this.
Notice reflection on my glasses. That's just a fun selfie right in my backyard.
These are pictures of my nieces I took playing around at their house this past Christmas.
Not even trying that hard. Just some slight edits to make the colors pop a little.
But as to actual specs, this is from their site:
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
And yes you are correct, the internal software on the phone corrects for the extreme wide angle really well to the point that you really just can't tell. With the old SLRs the fisheye effect used to trouble me significantly unless I sed it as a dramatic element for a picture. With the iPhone it's not a factor at all.
The cloud backup is VERY nice since I can take a picture with my iPhone and by the time I get back to my Mac to post a topic here, the picture is already on my desktop library. Air Drop is next level stuff. I took all those pics of my nieces, did a little editing and just walked over to my sister in law and put them on her phone without having to even use wi-fi. It is great for sharing video you just took with folks that are around you since it uses no data plan GBs, which is great for folks with limits on their plans.
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
NOT a smartphone
The one I settled on.
The one I used briefly...
I think it's my Facebook profile now.