First Pics with new Camera. Comments appreciated
Discussion
I'm no expert at all so take how you will...
I like one and the other glass bulbs, but especially one, good colour contrast and sharp focusing. I think you've done a good job of the light reflection as well, the matt reflection in six is nice compared to the mirror reflections in the earlier pictures, if that makes sense?
Three and four are forgettable, four seems to have too much colour depth and three too little.
The old machinery is lacking context I think, in a farmyard scene or a dew laden cobweb at dawn, all that classic stuff, but otherwise the cold shots are a bit meaningless.
The last one is nice in a lord of the rings kind of way.
I like one and the other glass bulbs, but especially one, good colour contrast and sharp focusing. I think you've done a good job of the light reflection as well, the matt reflection in six is nice compared to the mirror reflections in the earlier pictures, if that makes sense?
Three and four are forgettable, four seems to have too much colour depth and three too little.
The old machinery is lacking context I think, in a farmyard scene or a dew laden cobweb at dawn, all that classic stuff, but otherwise the cold shots are a bit meaningless.
The last one is nice in a lord of the rings kind of way.
Edited by olf on Sunday 27th August 23:01
I'd check where the camera is focusing on. The shots with the single pink flower and the purple and green vase (?) show that the camera has focussed behind the subject and I think the one with the two plums has focussed in front of where you wanted it. Try to reduce the bright areas of light coming from the top of the still lifes. Oh, and watch out for the backgrounds, you have a strange man wandering around your garden !
glenn911c4s said:
I was thnking of buying this camera, what is your overall impression, or should I put the extra and buy an SLR?
It's a little early to say. I came from a point and shoot Sony job and that was pretty bunk. This is excellent and can produce some really nice images - my girlfriend's taken some really good ones.
If you're an enthusiastic amateur who may still want a lot of point and shoot features, it's great and only cost me £240 with loads of extras. If you're looking for more manual functions and will be fiddling loads with them - I'd go for the full SLR. Some of the manual functions are a little awkward to access to be honest, ok for a well planned, set up shot, useless for quick shots, although the preset functions are very good, the 10x zoom is great and the image stabiliser seems to work well.
Phil
PS: Thanks for the comments everyone some helpful stuff in there.
Mannginger said:
glenn911c4s said:
I was thnking of buying this camera, what is your overall impression, or should I put the extra and buy an SLR?
If you're an enthusiastic amateur who may still want a lot of point and shoot features, it's great and only cost me £240 with loads of extras. If you're looking for more manual functions and will be fiddling loads with them - I'd go for the full SLR.
I've got the S5000 and I absolutely love it. So much so, that I've just bought the S9500 which I'm still getting to grips with....and it cost a little more than what you've paid for yours. Not had chance to play with it a great deal but impressed with it so far, although some people don't give it a favourable report.
I would say a lot depends on your budget and your needs. If I had more wonga I would probably have gone for an SLR but this was the most I could afford. Not that I'm complaining, I'm happy with both cameras.
CarMac said:
I've got the S5000 and I absolutely love it. So much so, that I've just bought the S9500 which I'm still getting to grips with....and it cost a little more than what you've paid for yours. Not had chance to play with it a great deal but impressed with it so far, although some people don't give it a favourable report.
It really depends on what you want. I've come from a background of having used a proper film SLR a lot when I was younger and a Sony Cybershot happy-snap digital more recently. I got a S9500 with a view to it bridging the gap between the Cybershot and a D-SLR, keeping the ease-of-use (especially framing the photo on the LCD screen) that my wife likes for taking photos of her stock for her web-based business yet at the same time allowing me a little more freedom for rediscovering photography.
Unfortunately for me, the S9500 did re-awaken my enjoyment of photography and instantly frustrated me because it was pretending to be a SLR and wasn't. It also messed up several photos by failing to focus properly, photos that even the Cybershot would probably have got. That's why I took it back and got a proper D-SLR (a Canon 350D). It could well have been user error on my part or perhaps a defective example of the S9500 that a replacement might have fixed, but I really couldn't get on with the digital viewfinder and wanted a proper SLR optical viewfinder.
But as I've said on other threads, I'm not knocking the camera as such, I'm just saying that it didn't suit me - a personal choice thing.
My wife is a little miffed that she's lost the ability to frame up on the LCD, but we couldn't afford to have both the S9500 and the 350D. Besides, she was a bit annoyed by the out-of-focus shots that would otherwise been good photos and that made her less resistant to changing the S9500 for the 350D.
It's horses for courses though - whatever suits your particular style.
Edited by JonRB on Tuesday 29th August 13:39
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