Hae-Yu
05-17-2006, 02:46 AM
My friend's graduation has been the only chance to try out my new camera, unfortunately I had nosebleed seats, and the arena was fairly dark. Handholding long zoom lenses just doesn't work. It's not a great image and I was just playing with settings, but it's the best I have to work with.
With my depth perception going, I can't guestimate distances well anymore. The podium is at least 1.5x - maybe 2x linearly as far as I can throw, which is average for a guy.
UNLV full (http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h248/Hae-Yu/UNLVGrad.jpg)
It's 800kb in size so you can see a bit better. I was only at 65mm (130 fle) out of 150mm (300 fle) zoom. I didn't do any processing on it except for a slight rotate and crop and downsample from 314 to 96dpi so the file size wasn't so big. Any jaggies are because of the compression and downsampling - they aren't on the original.
Here's a 100% crop at 314dpi. (http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h248/Hae-Yu/UNLVGradZoom.jpg)
I like the camera. An otherwise boring event was a good time to play with the settings and the camera is easy to use and discover. The color's great and any blurriness is my shaky hands. ISO 640 has no noise where my point n shoot C-5060 shows graininess at ISO 400. The white balance was easy to set and play with.
I def learned that you use a high ISO (faster "film") during dark events so you can turn the shutter speed down to avoid blur. All of my ISO 200 shots - with all other settings the same - showed motion blur.
With my depth perception going, I can't guestimate distances well anymore. The podium is at least 1.5x - maybe 2x linearly as far as I can throw, which is average for a guy.
UNLV full (http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h248/Hae-Yu/UNLVGrad.jpg)
It's 800kb in size so you can see a bit better. I was only at 65mm (130 fle) out of 150mm (300 fle) zoom. I didn't do any processing on it except for a slight rotate and crop and downsample from 314 to 96dpi so the file size wasn't so big. Any jaggies are because of the compression and downsampling - they aren't on the original.
Here's a 100% crop at 314dpi. (http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h248/Hae-Yu/UNLVGradZoom.jpg)
I like the camera. An otherwise boring event was a good time to play with the settings and the camera is easy to use and discover. The color's great and any blurriness is my shaky hands. ISO 640 has no noise where my point n shoot C-5060 shows graininess at ISO 400. The white balance was easy to set and play with.
I def learned that you use a high ISO (faster "film") during dark events so you can turn the shutter speed down to avoid blur. All of my ISO 200 shots - with all other settings the same - showed motion blur.