Harumble! All systems go with regards to email!
on December 28th, 2011 at 18:52I’m not quite well yet but I’m a whole lot better than I was this last week.
As a result our email system is online and running smoothly (at least from what I can tell!). The contact form goes to that address and it’s business as usual.
When I’ve not been working on that I’ve been researching cameras. I’ve been taking the site’s photos using a Fujifilm Z1 and, to be frank, I’m not satisfied with the image quality or the camera in general. You guys deserve better than that and I wouldn’t mind if I could take decent pics of my personal models too!
I was hoping my parents’ old Fujifilm S5000 would be available for me to take back with me to Edinburgh but as it turns out it’s not in use for a reason – the camera system is toast. Warm, buttery toast. Essentially when one switches it on the viewing/album mode works just fine but it just powers off or crashes when attempting to take photos.
Fortune smiled on me however, as I found a Nikon Coolpix 5700 nearby, also free for the taking. Unfortunately it too is knackered! It will take photos but even without the lens cap on they just come out completely black. Brilliant!
Can’t be helped, these things do happen. So I’ve been researching DSLRs and “bridge” cameras. I can’t afford a DSLR just yet (and frankly it’d probably be wasted on me) but a bridge camera seems ideal (they bridge the gap between DSLRs and point and shoot digicams).
I’m considering the Fujifilm FinePix HS20EXR at the moment. Anyone got any opinions on it?
I’ve used both a coolpix, and a more expensive system-digital camera, and, oddly enugh, the camera I’ve been most pleased with, is the one in my iphone 4…
If I were you, I’d put my money into getting a good photo editing program.
Personally, I use adobe photoshop, just press ctrl-shift-L, just after the image is loaded, before croping and re-sizing. Then use filter, sharpen, unsharp mask, and fiddle around ’till you’re happy.
All the photos in the catalogue are already enhanced as best as I could. The old Z1 did its best but I’m still not satisfied with it (even using a light box and a tripod).
I ended up getting the HS20EXR and so far I’m quite happy with how it turned out. I’m planning on posting some photos soon once I’ve finished my bikers (although there’s a thread on Dakka Dakka here).
I’ll be playing around more with photos once I return to Edinburgh as I have a significantly bigger screen there which makes photo editing much, much easier!