{"id":88,"date":"2007-08-03T19:43:46","date_gmt":"2007-08-03T23:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/08\/03\/digital-slrs\/"},"modified":"2007-08-03T19:43:46","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T23:43:46","slug":"digital-slrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/08\/03\/digital-slrs\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital SLRs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went out to dinner with my dad, and we stopped by Staples for a few minutes. While he looked at real stuff, I wandered down the camera aisle and was pleasantly surprised to find, for the first time ever, a Canon digital SLR that didn&#8217;t have dead batteries.<\/p>\n<p>It had no storage medium, but allowed you to shoot and review images. So here are my first impressions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li>My current camera is big. This is bigger. However, it&#8217;s hard to get a good feel for it because it has an enormous metal anti-theft thing and it&#8217;s chained down on top of that.<\/li>\n    <li>It has an 18-55mm lens. Nothing extraordinary, but 18mm, even on a non-full-frame camera, is awfully wide. 55mm isn&#8217;t exactly the 370mm (equivalent) mine goes out to, but it&#8217;s still good reach.<\/li>\n    <li>You get great tactile feedback. You half-press the shutter and the AF sensors being used are illuminated. You press it down the rest of the way and hear a <em>real<\/em> click from the camera, as opposed to it playing an obnoxious &#8216;film advance&#8217; sound effect.<\/li>\n    <li>Since it&#8217;s got a real lens on a real sensor, you can play with depth of field. With a nice wide aperture, I took a shot of another camera on the display, and was pleased that everything but what I focused on was blurred.<\/li>\n    <li>Zooming via lens ring is far, far more intuitive than zooming via W\/T buttons.<\/li>\n    <li>It goes up to ISO 1600, which would be quite handy in low-light situations. I didn&#8217;t have time, nor good resources, to see how the images looked at that setting.<\/li>\n    <li>The flash is &#8216;intelligent.&#8217; I didn&#8217;t pay it much attention at first, but I noticed that it was flipped up after a few well-illuminated shots. It was firing at very low strength for a nice fill-light. It wasn&#8217;t a blinding flash that leaves the foreground blown out and the background black as I&#8217;ve come to expect from cameras. But then again, $900 of camera had <em>better<\/em> have a decent flash&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m not at a point where I can justify spending $900 on a camera (not including the few grand I&#8217;d want to sink into additional, longer lenses), but I can say with certainty that if I <em>did<\/em> have $900 to sink into a camera, I would have bought it on the spot. (Actually I would have found it cheaper online. But that&#8217;s not the point.)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went out to dinner with my dad, and we stopped by Staples for a few minutes. While he looked at real stuff, I wandered down the camera aisle and was pleasantly surprised to find, for the first time ever, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/08\/03\/digital-slrs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}