{"id":152,"date":"2006-04-17T17:53:15","date_gmt":"2006-04-17T17:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2006-04-17T19:15:25","modified_gmt":"2006-04-17T19:15:25","slug":"looking-for-a-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/2006\/04\/17\/looking-for-a-camera","title":{"rendered":"Looking for a camera"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.
\nMy first photos were something of a shock.The lens is fantastic: very sharp, and the zoom range is amazing. The rest, though, is not so great. The reports about the noisy sensor are entirely true. I have no idea how the store owner managed to get the quality he showed me; even in normal daylight, areas in light shadow are mottled with green and purple. As the camera increases its sensitivity as the light fades, the noise increases dramatically. I was not at all happy, and went back to the store the following day. They gave me a Canon EOS 10D to try for a few days as a comparison. It’s in a different class, unfortunately in terms of price, too. The lens, a good Canon, couldn’t match the Leica zoom on the Lumix in terms of sharpness, but the sensor in the Canon is far<\/em> better. I returned the Lumix to the store last Thursday, and was given a full refund with no argument. I’m now back to my old Olympus, and considering whether I’m willing to pay for an SLR and good lens, and lug the weight around…
\n(Unfortunately, I can’t post any photos where you can see what I’m talking about; I’ve already deleted all but the best photos I took with the camera.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading “Looking for a camera”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagebuch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}