The two attached pictures were taken with a Canon PowerShot SX120 IS. (They have been reduced to 640 x 480 pix.) Costs just under $200 US, some less in China. I chose it specifically because it is powered by two standard AA batteries rather than a dedicated battery. This camera is part of my traveling kit and I got tired of carrying all of those separate power supplies around. Every electronic gadget I now carry (with the exception of my cell phone and computer) is powered by either AA or AAA batteries. One small, lightweight charger (which works with both 110 vac and 220 vac) keeps everything running. It can be a bit tricky to get it to focus on what you want but with a little fussing it usually works just fine. The image stabilizer makes a tripod unnecessary. One less thing to carry. ddf Delwin D Fandrich Piano Design & Fabrication 620 South Tower Avenue Centralia, Washington 98531 USA del at fandrichpiano.com ddfandrich at gmail.com Phone 360.736.7563 From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Albert Picknell Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 10:51 AM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] Digital cameras was RE: Slipping Beckets pictures The camera I used was a Panasonic (Lumix) DMC-FZ18. It's a slightly higher-end (meaning bulkier) camera, though not a DSLR. The price was a little over $500 CDN about a year and a half ago. I didn't have to use a tripod; I just held the bottom portion of the pins between my fingers, brought them up close to the camera (held in my other hand), focused and shot. Ditto what Mark and Marcel said below. Cheers, Bert --- On Sat, 2/6/10, Mark Dierauf <pianotech at nhpianos.com> wrote: From: Mark Dierauf <pianotech at nhpianos.com> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Digital cameras was RE: Slipping Beckets pictures To: caut at ptg.org Received: Saturday, February 6, 2010, 3:04 PM Also http://www.dpreview.com/ for in-depth reviews, etc. - Mark Marcel Carey wrote: Before buying a camera, have a look at www.kenrockwell.com <http://www.kenrockwell.com/> . He has a good site for helping you select from your needs. Marcel Carey, RPT Sherbrooke, QC <http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9708126> _____ The new Internet ExplorerR 8 - Faster, safer, easier. Optimized for Yahoo! <http://downloads.yahoo.com/ca/internetexplorer/> Get it Now for Free! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100208/afa18cbb/attachment-0001.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IMG_0146 -- c&s.JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 76745 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100208/afa18cbb/attachment-0002.jpeg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IMG_0148 -- s.JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 80001 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100208/afa18cbb/attachment-0003.jpeg>
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