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Doyle D. Chastain
{K:101119} 4/12/2006
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Laurie:
A nice, pastoral, tranquil, idyllic scene. I especially like the 'bird's eye view' from the mountaintop . . . almost like a low flying plane. Nicely done!
Regards,
Doyle I <-----
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Laurie McIntosh
{K:958} 1/2/2006
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True... where I was thinking that the fz5 would come in handy is the shot out of the bus/car/plane window... the shake compensation is meant to be plenty good-o. But, thinking back, it would have been the zoom that would have been useful, and the lack of a decent wide angle that I would have most missed. So, A620 is probly the way to go.
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Ian McIntosh
{K:42997} 1/2/2006
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Yes could make many friends travelling with stuffed into the pocket the fz5.
My thoughts are they should have wide angles for travel, not zooms.
There's a panasonic (Lx1)does 28mm width looks really exciting with 16x9 frames, and the canon s80 does 28mm, but both run on special batteries.
At 35mm I think the a 620 the widest thing on AA's I've found so far...
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Laurie McIntosh
{K:958} 1/2/2006
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It's A80-ish... it's a 7MP jobby, has the swing out and rotate preview screen (what you had trouble with on the 80, if I remember rightly).. it's also got a Scene setting where you can tell the camera what the likely situation is (Children & Pets is one setting here) which presumably alters the choices it makes for shutter speed and aperture.. but if I had my time over again, I think the Panasonic DMC-FZ5 would be my choice. Not so easy to stick in your pocket without making people think you REALLY like them, but I've heard only good things about the pictures it takes...
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Ian McIntosh
{K:42997} 1/2/2006
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Hmmm is this the new thing in the same line as the a80?. I'm researching travel cameras for friends. Does look like the nicest thing you can fit in your pocket.
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Ian McIntosh
{K:42997} 1/2/2006
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A cherished view.
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Laurie McIntosh
{K:958} 12/31/2005
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Ha! Sorry Roger, I meant the suburb, not the bridge itself - although that would also hold true of the bridge, were it in the shot. In fact, it's about 45 degrees out of shot to the right of this picture...
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Roger Skinner
{K:81846} 12/31/2005
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yeah .. see what ya mean about the bridge....
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