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201113 Photos For July 13
Dufferin Arch, CNE
After lamenting the sorry state of my phonecam, I realized I have something better in the Canon A520, which is an old point-and-shoot I generally only use for short (i.e., 30 second) video. Despite it’s low-techsavviness, the el cheapo Canon A520 (you can probably pick one up off Craigslist or eBay for $10) still trumps any phonecam, even the iPhone. Did you know that even on these old point-and-shoots you can shoot in aperture priority, shutter priority, manual settings for both, control white balance, exposure compensation, exposure metering (evaluative, centre-weighted, and spot), and even ISO? Yes, they may appear lowly, but you actually have much more control over your basic digicam than you probably realize.
I’ve uploaded 13 photos taken with the Canon A520 shot mostly today (a few yesterday) on the walk home. I fooled around with 1-step editing in Lightroom, but otherwise what you see here is performance out of a basic point-and-shoot. Not bad!
Nigel
If I remember correctly, its a Canon specialty that even on their point and shoot they let you go all manual. My Kodak (its pretty bad, but yeah), and my friend’s Sony didn’t seem to let us do that.
Gail
Except for the Panasonic Lumix that I inherited from David, I’ve only ever bought Canon point-and-shoots, they are workhorses and perform pretty well in low light!
Zhu
Really good indeed!
I used to love my first digital camera, the Kodak Easyshare I bought back in 2006. I took all my travel pictures with it in 2008-2009 and they turned out great. The only downside is that the shutter is pretty slow so it’s not a great camera for handheld night shots or freezing action.
Gail
Do you still have it and use it at all, Zhu?