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A belly Full of beer and pizza helps, a mix of videos and photography created by me all the good bad and the ugly, also some junk I find from around the interwebs!

Anyhoos, this is the main stuff I have used over the years……….

Still Digital Photography

Recently I upgraded to a Canon Power shot SX20 IS camera, while not a DSLR It’s as close to one as you can probably get, Don’t want a DSLR anyway this meets all my needs and more. I thought here I would show all the digital cameras that I have used since my venture in to digital photography.

Cybershot dcs51

The First Digital Camera I owned was a Sony Cybershot Dsc-51.   With a whopping 2 mega pixels, 2x Optical Zoom,  1/2.7″ (6.64mm) Sony Super HAD 2.0 Megapixel Effective, Still Image: 1600 x 1200, 1280 x 960, 640 x 480, 320×240, PEG Movie: 320 x 240 HQX, 320 x 240, 160 x 112 (NO AUDIO) it had other bits and bobs, but a very basic camera. (example shots from this camera, include Amsterdam and New York 2003)

Minolta Z5Next Came the Konica Minilta z5 the massive 12x optical zoom drew me to this camera, 1/2.5″ CCD, 5.2 million total pixels,  other specs are • 35 – 420 mm equiv. (12x optical zoom) F2.8 – F4.5, APO GT, 13 elements in 10 groups, Image size can be 2,560 x 1,920, 2,048 x 1,536, 1,600 x 1,200,  shutter speeds Program AE: 2 – 1/1000 sec, ISO 50,100,200,320.  Also capable of shooting movies, this time with sound. example photos include the Paris sets > 2008, New York 2008, Washington D.C and Canada 2009. oh ifs for sale too, drop me a email if interested….


Nikon CoolPix L12 This was purchased as a small supplementary camera, as the Minolta Z5 was to large to carry around on a daily basis ect, picked it on on a cracking deal whilest in new York.  It has 7.0 mega Pixels, 3x optical zoom lens (35-105mm in 35mm equivalent),  High ISO capabilities up to 1600 (Auto only, no manual control), Automatic exposure and 17 pre-programmed Scene modes,  also does videos 640×480 @ 30fps movie mode with Audio,  examples of these shots are scatterd around a few galleries .

Most recent purchase was the Canon SX20 IS It was either this on a DSLR,  This offers almost the same functionality than a DSLR.  1/2.3 ” Type CCD, 12.1 million effective pixels, Image sizes of up to 4000 x 3000, 28- 560 mm equivalent, 20x Optical zoom (W00t!!) iso, Auto, 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, shutter speed Auto (1 – 1/3200 sec), 15-1/3200 sec, aperture, Auto (1 – 1/3200 sec), Videos maximum 1280 x 720 @ 30fps.  lots more features, google it.


Video

Kodak Zx1 a basic pocket video camera, shoots in 720p HD, at 60 fps with 16:9 aspect ratio.  It’s also waterproof, this helps since I live in Scotland.