First day photo with Gina's new camera"
Hi Folks, A SLR is too big and heavy for Gina (My lovely child bride 72) to take on her hikes, so she has had every Olympus UZ digicam they make up to her present 18x optical SP-550 UZ. Well, after looking at photos taken by Rose from Australia (aka Birdeye) I was blown away, and got her the same camera Rose uses, Panasonic Lumix FZ50. Came the day before she left for England to climb the 3 highest peaks in Britain in 3 days, so she left it for me to play with. I love it, and here is a photo of a Curve-billed Thrasher sitting on a Cholla Cactus in our garden. A picture is better than a 1000 words! Thanks for looking . . . Gus :D aka Windy
Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ50 Digicam 12X optical
Used Program Mode (Since I'm the thinking camera's man)
Photo taken 5:45 PM with sun just above the west range of mountains
1/400s, F 7.1
ISO 100
Spot Metering
Auto WB
420mm equiv
Cropped & resized photo, and though it needed a tad of pop. So I took it to CS3, Curves, Linear contrast & adjusted a point
