I’ve been looking for a new digital camera for some time now. Every time I looked at a new camera, I decided that the improvement over my current camera (an old 2 megapixel Olympus!) wasn’t worth the money. Mary-Anne decided to buy me a new camera for my birthday last week, but didn’t know which one to choose. We went to a camera store, where the owner advised me. I wanted something with a good zoom range and good picture quality, and expected to buy a digital SLR. The store owner convinced me to buy a Lumix DMC-FZ30: 8 megapixels with a 35-420 Leica zoom lens. I’d heard that the Lumix cameras had a rather ‘noisy’ sensor, but the owner showed me some photos he had taken, which looked good. I was convinced, and walked out of the store with the Lumix.
My first photos were something of a shock. Continue reading “Looking for a camera”