What a Point & Shoot Can Do

[rutt]

I love my DSLR, but there are a lot of times when it is the wrong tool for the job. I went to NYC this Saturday for just a few hours to visit my Dad. I could have dragged my big camera, but I wouldn't have gotten these shots in the taxi:

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/3108000-L.jpg

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/3108002-L.jpg

[damonff]

I agree Rutt. I only use a Nikon 885 right now. I'm getting an 828 next week and I'll see what it's like to have an 8 megapixel camera!

[jimf]

I agree Rutt. I only use a Nikon 885 right now. I'm getting an 828 next week and I'll see what it's like to have an 8 megapixel camera!

Don't get too caught up in the pixel count. In reality most cameras are more limited by their lens systems than their sensor. I found that even at 2.5mpel I got very good 8x10 prints out of my C2500L, and I know Charles Richmond has a relatively low mpel Kodak that produces some stunning shots.

I have no experience with the Sony although it does seem to have one of the better permanent lens systems out there; I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

[wxwax]

rutt, #2 is is a winner.

[pathfinder]

I love my DSLR, but there are a lot of times when it is the wrong tool for the job. I went to NYC this Saturday for just a few hours to visit my Dad. I could have dragged my big camera, but I wouldn't have gotten this shot in the taxi:



http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/3108002-L.jpgRutt - I could not agree more - I have used the Nikon CoolPix 995 for several years - here is an image from Maysville Ky taken in the summer of 2002



http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/3161370-L.jpg

ANd here is an image that alway gets a bang from a Nikon CoolPix 950 - all of 2 megapixels.... Puny by todays standards but takes nice pics just the same

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/2363881-L.jpg

[pathfinder]

Another picture with a CoolPix 995

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/3179312-L.jpg

[tmlphoto]

I love my DSLR, but there are a lot of times when it is the wrong tool for the job. I went to NYC this Saturday for just a few hours to visit my Dad. I could have dragged my big camera, but I wouldn't have gotten these shots in the taxi:

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/3108000-L.jpg

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/3108002-L.jpg
I like the first one. Here is a Point & Shoot sucess. ( I think so anyway)

[wxwax]

A couple of years ago I took my Olympus point-and-shoot into the desert, surprised myself with some decent shots, and got enthusiastic about shooting again.

http://wxwax.smugmug.com/photos/13845-M-1.jpg

http://wxwax.smugmug.com/photos/13846-M-1.jpg

[Wings]

I knew Fish has a bunch of neat camera stuff, but...are you saying you guys all have cameras other than point & shoot? Now I feel like a total dork.

[wxwax]

I think my camera's pretty close to being a point and shoot. But I try to always use the manual controls.

Hey, who cares what you shoot with? You're making great shots, and you seem happy with it... so no need to feel like a dork. I'm agonizing over upgrading, and half of me thinks I'm an idiot for doing so.

[damonff]

I feel your pain Sid. I love my Coolpix 885 but I think I need to take it to the next level, whatever that means. Pathfinder has a great shot with the 995. I don't know. I know that I'll buy this Sony 828 on payday and then in a year I'll want a Canon dslr and then...and then...but truly it's fun. It's just expensive. Oh well.

[pathfinder]

I feel your pain Sid. I love my Coolpix 885 but I think I need to take it to the next level, whatever that means. Pathfinder has a great shot with the 995. I don't know. I know that I'll buy this Sony 828 on payday and then in a year I'll want a Canon dslr and then...and then...but truly it's fun. It's just expensive. Oh well.The CoolPix 885 is a fine camera - It has 3.34 megapixels - slightly more than the 995 - and has an image size 2048 x 1536 F2.8-4.9 38-114 mm zoom

You can find a complete review of the 885 at http://www.dpreview.com/news/0108/01082302nikoncoolpix885.asp

and of the 995 at

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Nikon/nikon_cp995.asp The 995 is listed as discontinued... 3.14 megapixels 2048X1536 - Sound familiar?http://www.dgrin.com/images/icons/lickout.gif They probably both use the same image sensor I suspect.

Anyway here are few more images with the 995

This is a picture of an elevated railway 180 feet in the air and about a half mile long - not something you expect to see driving through the Indiana farm countryside - and its shadow. In color and B&W.


http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/3258633-L.jpg


http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/3258636-L.jpg

Just continue to show the world the Chinese pictures you have been taking with your CoolPix 885. They're geat