Sunday, June 8, 2014

New Kid on the Block

After my little pocket digital camera literally went to pieces, I decided to get a new small camera. Too many choices out there, but since I'm partial to Pentax, I looked at and ended up getting a new Pentax MX-1. For a pretty good price. It's a little too big for 'pocket' status, but takes considerably better pictures than the old camera. Bigger, better sensor, more modes and features, vastly better movie mode, etc.
It's also better than my old Canon Powershot G6, which its technically similar to in many ways. But since its many years newer, it definitely outclasses the old G6 thanks to improved technology. No big surprise. I considered a new G16 Powershot which is also a great camera, but it was a little more than $200 more than the MX-1. So that settled that. Shall we get on to a handful of photos all taken with the new camera?
Some purple flowers, shot pretty close and with a short depth of field. This camera has a pretty good macro capability, I need to work some more with that.
A wooden Blacksmith sign. Sun was just over the edge of the sign.

This camera has a couple modes of built-in HDR capture also. The lower level settings aren't dramatically different than normal, but the 'Strong 2' setting is just that - STRONG! Yowza! All the HDR shots are as they look out of the camera other than cropping/straightening and misc cleanup of the image.
True Love will never fade. Well, this one shouldn't - its ceramic tile. Just don't break it! This is HDR, but maybe not quite as obvious. How about this -
A roof overhang, definitely showing some of the HDR effect. It was a bit shadowy in here when I took the picture. Really popped out the shadowy areas. Finally, this next image of an ordinary sunny day shot shows the strong HDR effect best.
Those are some bright clouds. This is definitely a use it only once in a while for dramatic effect setting. I need to experiment more with the lower HDR settings to see where I could use them.

That's all for the new gadget now. More interesting images as they appear!

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