Point and Shoot

My Christmas gift this year was a Canon Powershot, a point-and-shoot model with a 10x zoom and image stablilization. I love the size of it. I had felt that lugging the Rebel and lenses was too cumbersome and was complaining about never having the camera around to capture moments "on the go". All I had to use previously was my cell phone which is old and takes extremely grainy photos. So I'm playing with this camera, too, trying to appreciate its compact-ness. (Is that even a word?) You'll see from the photo below that the quality is definitely not the same as our SLR. However, there is much to be said for having a camera you can toss in your purse and bring along everywhere you go.

So, what I learned the past two days of photographing the birds with both cameras is that this camera does have a nice zoom, but if I use it, I'm going to get very grainy photos. I can't really adjust the ISO the way I'd like: there's an Auto and a Hi setting. So probably not the best camera for photographing birds, but for documenting the every-day stuff, it'll do. And maybe I should just start carrying the camera pack instead of my purse. I'm sure I could find room in there for a wallet, keys, and a tube of lipstick. What else does a girl need, really?



The birds have been faithful visitors as the temperatures dipped below zero this week. This goldfinch just grabbed a seed and flew up to the post to enjoy it. I was happy to catch him in mid-flight.

There's lots of better photographs over at Camera Critters.