Yah, not anymore unfortunately. Like I said, some Frankston puke probably sold it to cash converters the monday after last years FA Cup final. The good thing was that I had it set to manual for some sunset shots out of Eureka Tower that evening, so hopefully they weren't smart enough to reset it to manual and thought it was a piece of crap. Small merciesEBB wrote: If you're able to adjust ISO to 100, great, can you also adjust aperture? And shutter speed? That would help you alot.
If not, then under-expose slightly and use digital software with levels adjustment. 'Ponit and shoot' camera's give good results but are limited.
I'm also a noob.
Yeah on top of a pretty decent auto system, it had 4 manual ISO settings, 50, 100, 200 and 400. You had about 7 or 8 different shutter speeds as well so I played a bit with combinations of them. Could AWB for things like tungsten and you could also manually set it using coloured paper. Did sepia, b&w as well as video. $550 it cost with pouch and cards. It was a great piece of tech and I miss it a bunch. Not sure about aperture sizes though.
So yeah, looking for something next time with a few less features for the social snaps, but definitely getting an SLR for playing around with too. LIke you said, there's only so much a point and shoot can do. Landscapes tend to be a bit of a waste, and I'm not a fan of digital zoom. A few different styles of lenses would be ace to play with. Roll on tax return time though as she's a bit of an initial outlay as far as hobbies go!
Thanks also for the tip on diffraction. Googled it up and picked up some good info for when I approach that level. Cheers!
lol We were staying up in the mountains in Laminton National Park near the Gold Coast.
