Fireworks, camera
Nov. 7th, 2005 07:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
armbWent to the Cambridge fireworks on Saturday. Forecast rain didn't happen, which was nice. We were well back where it's quieter and not so crowded - near a small cluster of photographers (with tripods etc.), but not (as far as I saw) including ewx. I didn't take a camera - maybe next year, by which time I plan to have a digital, allowing instant feedback of what worked (at least to some extent).
Ones I currently fancy include the Pentax Optio WP because it's compact enough to take everywhere and waterproof, and the larger Canon A610 because "compact enough to take everywhere" is possibly "annoyingly fiddly".
I also fancy a DSLR sometime, but that's another can of worms. (I have two film SLRs, a Pentax ME-F and my father-in-law's Minolta Dynax 7, neither with enough lenses to make switching systems out of the question but both things it might be nice to be compatible with (Pentax 28mm, 50mm, 75-150 zoom with graunchy movement, all manual focus aperture priority only; Minolta 35-80 (I think) AF zoom). Sell the Pentax stuff and get an old Canon AE-1 body instead if I get a Canon DSLR is one option.)
Ones I currently fancy include the Pentax Optio WP because it's compact enough to take everywhere and waterproof, and the larger Canon A610 because "compact enough to take everywhere" is possibly "annoyingly fiddly".
I also fancy a DSLR sometime, but that's another can of worms. (I have two film SLRs, a Pentax ME-F and my father-in-law's Minolta Dynax 7, neither with enough lenses to make switching systems out of the question but both things it might be nice to be compatible with (Pentax 28mm, 50mm, 75-150 zoom with graunchy movement, all manual focus aperture priority only; Minolta 35-80 (I think) AF zoom). Sell the Pentax stuff and get an old Canon AE-1 body instead if I get a Canon DSLR is one option.)
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Date: 2005-11-07 04:53 pm (UTC)