Saturday, August 28, 2004
Great tips for compact cameras
Every so often I re-read Philip Greenwood's tutorial on using a compact. It's on photo.net. Some great ideas in there, especially on the creative use and non-use of flash.
Reading the comments following the tutorial, you can see that many people become obsessive about the camera, not photography. Many of the threads on photo.net deteriorate into a "My lens is better than your lens because the manual says so" monologue (a problem that's not limited to photo.net either). I love my Mju, but mostly because it fits in my pocket. Most of my other cameras don't.
As I'm on the subject of compact camera tips, Photo Secrets is pretty good too. Searching Google for "compact camera tips" gets you lots of pages like these. ¶ 2:08 PM
Reading the comments following the tutorial, you can see that many people become obsessive about the camera, not photography. Many of the threads on photo.net deteriorate into a "My lens is better than your lens because the manual says so" monologue (a problem that's not limited to photo.net either). I love my Mju, but mostly because it fits in my pocket. Most of my other cameras don't.
As I'm on the subject of compact camera tips, Photo Secrets is pretty good too. Searching Google for "compact camera tips" gets you lots of pages like these. ¶ 2:08 PM
