At Newport Beach with a Point and Shoot...

[erich6]

Took my son to row-boating with the cub scouts this morning and decided to bring along my wife's Kodak point and shoot digi-cam. I was curious how much I could get out of this 5-MP camera. Here are three representative shots. Aside from lack of RAW (what a difference it makes!) and poor JPEG compression I think it's not too bad. Comments welcomed.

Erich

http://hbphoto.smugmug.com/photos/74636401-L.jpg

http://hbphoto.smugmug.com/photos/74636379-L.jpg

http://hbphoto.smugmug.com/photos/74636508-L.jpg

Erich

[Atrucker]

Perfectly fine for 99% of the people in this country. Those of us who hang around these sites are a bit more picky. Shooting RAW with my old D7i 5mp camera sure made a difference over the jpegs.

[Pezpix]

Argh @ the June gloom here in SoCal!

Yeah! For the cool pictures of Balboa Island!

I was in Newport yesterday as well Erich6, and capturing depth and color can be a real challenge during these gloomy days, especially if that gloom never burns off all day.

Personally, I love your third shot as it really captures the water texture well as well as grabbing some good action. One of my big gripes with digicams has always been capturing depth of field with complex water shots but your shot really has some good texture to that water. Thanks for sharing and keep in mind, we're only 2 weeks from the end of June Gloom here :thumb

[saurora]

Argh @ the June gloom here in SoCal!

Thanks for sharing and keep in mind, we're only 2 weeks from the end of June Gloom here :thumb
Actually, that's not true. I've been on vacation for a week enduring the gloom. Since I go back to work tomorrow, I can assure you the sun will come out...:roflI was not inspired to shoot much this week due to the lack of cooperation on the weather man's part.

Nice shots, Erich. I find the good P&S cameras do a bang-up job for a lot of what needs to be captured. Now if they could just make them so you could have a shallower DOF, I'd be sold!!!! :D

[erich6]

Thanks for the comments everyone but I still like my 20D better! :wink

This coming weekend is supposed to be sunny so all kinds of different opportunities. Actually, had a chance to spend a couple of hours at Bolsa Chica yesterday afternoon and the weather was terrific.

Cheers,

Erich