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| Thread ID: 121710 | 2011-11-08 06:29:00 | Funny colour | Cicero (40) | PC World Chat |
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| 1242533 | 2011-11-11 19:08:00 | Good choice Ciccy. I just bought two myself, one for me and one for the memsahib. Got a package deal price that included cases and 2GB memory cards. The reviews are very good and I like the use of AA batteries, I have zero faith in lithium-ion rechargeables, they drop dead at the most inconvenient moments. If a company as steeped in photography as Canon can't make a decent camera nobody can! I have been struggling with a Fuji Finepix F610 (that I won in a PCW competition) and from day one it produced under-exposed images. It has a 100+ page manual and I tried everything in it except human sacrifice. They could be gamma, contrast and colour corrected in Irfanview but it was a pain having to process them all. I tried everything but nothing worked, not even upping the ISO from 160 to 400. Like an idiot I then went out and bought a Fuji Finepix J210, but that had the same problem, though not quite as pronounced. It also introduced me to the joys of viewfinder-less photography so that one was pretty hopeless as well, though its exposure performance was a little better. The only good thing about the F610 is its closeup capabilities and I'm keeping it for that. Cheers Billy 8-{) :thumbs: Ah, glad you tried it out with your scientific bent. My camera is a Finepix S1500 which seems ok, but as I have said, there is not a photographer trying to get out, but I do enjoy some nice accidental pics. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1242534 | 2011-11-11 20:46:00 | My camera is a Finepix S1500 Wait, what? |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1242535 | 2011-11-11 20:57:00 | Wait, what? The Canon belonged to the Memsahib |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1242536 | 2011-11-29 08:22:00 | Sorry, I should have passed this on a couple of weeks ago - I missed seeing it in my in-box :( "I got a response on the forum from a senior Canon technical guy, Chuck Westfall, who's the top guy technical PR guy worldwide. "Someone may have been playing with the A430's 'Color Swap' function, which allows users to specify a color within a captured image to be substituted or swapped with another color on images taken afterwards. This can be corrected by executing a "Reset All" command in the camera's set-up menu." So either it's that, or the camera's stuffed. Please pass it on to the forum." |
Zippity (58) | ||
| 1242537 | 2011-11-30 01:39:00 | Ah, what memories that photo recalls. The erratic idle of the Gypsy Major clattering away at idle, that anticipation of the coming flight. Climbing in and pulling the straps over ones shoulder, fishing for the lap straps and pulling them over the pin of the Sutton harness and pushing home the locking pin. Waving the chocks away and a quick burst of power to get moving then full rudder, another burst of power with the assistant holding a wing tip and pointing towards the end of the runway, taxing slowly moving head from side to side to see around the long nose. Any checks were done while still chocked so it is line up, look around for other aircraft close the side hatch and slowly open the throttle. A dab of left rudder, stick central and the tail comes up of its own accord. The ride across even the bumpiest grass is the ride of a Rolls Royce. A short run and airborne, the Gypsy Major now sounding smooth and sweet at full thottle. Power back to 2200rpm, 70 mph and a long climb looking all around for other aircraft. The visibility is not the greatest with all the wings struts and wires. Levelling out at altitude, back to 1900rpm. Loop, roll stall turn, spin, inverted flight hanging in the harness and if the aeros were carried out clumsily, maybe the engine quits and the prop stops. No electric starter here. Nose down, the wires singing in the wind as the airspeed approaches 140mph, the prop still stationary but flicking over one compression occasionally until suddeny it keeps turning and power is restored, as is flight. Back to the field. Power back to idle down wind, glide approach all the way, the engine popping continually. Descent contolled by judicious sideslipping, straightening up at the last minute to level off inches above the grass, leaning out the side to see the ground as the nose comes up. Holding off and holding off until the moment when the stick is quickly pulled hard back, the aircraft stalled and dropped gently on the three points. We can all rememeber our instructors words as he talked us through the landing. Back, back, back, RIGHT BACK. Roll to a walking pace, no brakes. A burst of power to turn of the runway and the slow taxi back to the starting point. The assistant chocks the wheels, each magneto is checked in turn for a dead cut, the both switchs to off, throttle wide and the Gypsy clatters to a halt. Silence. The engine has stopped, the flight is over but the grin will last for some hours. Thanks for the memories Cicero |
tut (12033) | ||
| 1242538 | 2011-11-30 04:15:00 | Quick update on the Canon A1200, the photos are several classes ahead of the Fuji, with no exposure problems and good results on auto. It takes good movies too, but the memory fills pretty quickly and an 8GB memory card is advisable. It gets hot on continuous movie too, though I think that was partly high battery drain because they were well down in capacity by the time my 4GB memory stick was full. They did recover though, and showed nearly full capacity again the next day when they had cooled down. If it was a Lithium it would have been dead in 15 minutes so I can't complain. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
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