Treated myself to a camera...
 

I've never had anything more than compact type camera before, and for the last 8 or so years I've only had a camera on my phone. Which was fine for quick snaps of the kids and for holidays, but after getting my new bike I started to find some nice places, which my phone didn't do justice to.

The camera I chose is a bridge camera, a Canon, 20MP with something like 45x zoom. I took it on holiday with us last week as I knew we were going on the North Norfolk railway, so thought it'd be a good opportunity for a few shots.

Heres a few I had while trying to figure out how it worked. I popped out on the bike today and had a play around with different settings, just need to sort through them and see if any of them are actually any good.

*edit* resized so they don't make the page ridiculously huge, but quality seriously affected...

https://i.imgur.com/5rZP35Y.jpg?1R

https://i.imgur.com/mC52EQR.jpg?1

https://i.imgur.com/QjWebUR.jpg?1

https://i.imgur.com/4UE59J9.jpg?1

https://i.imgur.com/sYOi63h.jpg?1

A great range of photos with lovely clarity and the bonus with the Canon bridge camera is how light it is and one lens does everything. Here is a photo I took in January 2013 in Kenya with a Canon bridge camera which I later donated to my wife. It does really good video and the image stability is a useful feature. Enjoy your camera and I look forward to seeing more of your photos. Thank you for sharing.


2 Giraffes take in an early morning walk


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...8650f36b_b.jpgTwo Giraffes Meru National Park Kenya by philip Gate Keeper, on Flickr

I still shoot with the Canon SX cameras. Basically because I could never justify the £5,000 price of a good long reach lens for my 5D.

Great pics Derrick, I must start using my bridge camera's.

I bought a Fuji about 6 years ago along with tripod and bag etc, then I bought a Hitachi which I've never really used as I find it too complicated. :duh: I seem to prefer my smaller Samsung compact camera for ease of use, but I reckon I'm missing out on some good quality shots it seems.

I have to say, I know I've never had a decent or semi-proper camera before, but I'm impressed with the ability of this camera so far. Less impressed with the lack of quality when posting here, but the only way I can see to share them is to upload to a site like Imgur and then resize.

I only really bought it as I'd been out for a ride on the new bike, exploring some small country roads and stumbled across the Welland Valley Viaduct. I found a good vantage point and wanted to take some half decent photos of it. I'll start a separate thread that I'll keep updated with photos I've taken while out on the bike.

Some great photos there.
Have you tried flickr?
You can link images to here in various sizes with no loss of quality.

Thanks I’ll have a look at Flickr, got a feeling I’ve used it before but stopped for some reason