So I bought the Canon SX50 HS. I’ve got a lot of pictures on Flickr, so I’ll just embed this one:
It’s a spruce tree in my driveway, and I was standing about 50 feet from the bough you see here.
I put up a lot of examples of the amazing zoom on this beast. I also like the low-light capabilities.
I’m thinking of getting a FA-DC67A Ring Adapter
I’m shopping for a new camera. My trusty Canon Powershot A620 still works, but it is literally falling apart and can’t be trusted as my primary camera any more.
So I’m shopping. I’ve given some serious consideration to the Fujifilm FinePix HS35EXR
I’ve read a lot of reviews: DP Review, of course, and Wirecutter, but several other reviews as well.
One of the best things about shopping for cameras is that you can see what real people are doing with it. Take a look at Flickr’s Canon SX50 HS group.
Here are some of my favorite tools for working with digital images.
Pixelmator. This is my go-to program for digital images, and someday they’ll ship 2.0 and it will be awesome.
Xee calls itself “a lightweight, fast and convenient image viewer and browser.” I agree. The best feature, for my money, is that it lets you losslessly rotate and crop JPEG images. You can do that with jpegtran too, but that’s a command-line tool. Those are great for batch jobs, but image cropping is almost always better done using an interactive GUI front-end.
Acorn is my second-favorite image editor. If Pixelmator wasn’t so darned good, this would be my favorite. Usually what brings me to Acorn is when I need to do something with filters and I can’t figure out how to do it in Pixelmator. The tech support is great, too.
Speaking of filters, I like to goof around with FX Photo Studio, too. MacPhun, the maker, also makes a cute one-trick-pony called Color Splash Studio which is worth the $2 I paid for it.
I also use a ton of different command line tools. I’ll write about those someday Real Soon Now.
I happened on this video earlier while looking for Ian Anderson‘s “Eurology.” This is a very creditable cover version, but what makes it worth watching is the amazing flute-camera the artist (Jackinart) put together.
At first, watching it makes you a little sea-sick, but it’s worth watching to see how a flutist holds their instrument. I always thought there would be more wobble than this, but it’s pretty much rock-steady. Very impressive. And a great song, of course.