On the road to financial ruin.
15th April 2009
Back in 2204 I decided that instead of having all sorts of camera gear in a bag gathering dust from lack of use, I would sell it all off and buy a small digital camera that I could carry all the time. The Nikon Coolpix 5700 was purchased.
Very soon I really got the camera bug again and started the climb back up the digital camera ladder, Fuji S3 pro, some Nikkor lenses followed. Then the Nikon D200, more lenses. Discovered Canon and after some long involved web searches and pondering the pages of many magazines, I bought the Canon Eos 5D & the Canon 24-105mm Lens, then the battery box, a 100-300mm Sigma followed then a 16-35mm Canon, which was replaced later for the mark 11 spec. Lots of memory cards angle finders tripods, heads and more gadget bags than the local camera store, know the feeling?
The Canon eos 5D mark 11 came along eventually and in I went, great camera, I held back from buying the battery box (so far)on the grounds that it added more weight around my old neck and to date you can't buy batteries for it for love nor money. While I was ordering my new 5D 11 Canon announced the G10 compact and I was hooked.
So now I have gone the full circle, back to a compact, carry everywhere camera, I'm keeping the 5D for it's wonderful quality, but at times the G10 is just the job, light great image quality, it'll never take the place of a DSLR but for the web it's a peach of a camera.
This is a shot from the Nikon Coolpix 5700, 4 images stitched. Sometime I'll post a shot from the Canon G10, watch this space.
Very soon I really got the camera bug again and started the climb back up the digital camera ladder, Fuji S3 pro, some Nikkor lenses followed. Then the Nikon D200, more lenses. Discovered Canon and after some long involved web searches and pondering the pages of many magazines, I bought the Canon Eos 5D & the Canon 24-105mm Lens, then the battery box, a 100-300mm Sigma followed then a 16-35mm Canon, which was replaced later for the mark 11 spec. Lots of memory cards angle finders tripods, heads and more gadget bags than the local camera store, know the feeling?
The Canon eos 5D mark 11 came along eventually and in I went, great camera, I held back from buying the battery box (so far)on the grounds that it added more weight around my old neck and to date you can't buy batteries for it for love nor money. While I was ordering my new 5D 11 Canon announced the G10 compact and I was hooked.
So now I have gone the full circle, back to a compact, carry everywhere camera, I'm keeping the 5D for it's wonderful quality, but at times the G10 is just the job, light great image quality, it'll never take the place of a DSLR but for the web it's a peach of a camera.
This is a shot from the Nikon Coolpix 5700, 4 images stitched. Sometime I'll post a shot from the Canon G10, watch this space.
