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Post by julesd68 on Oct 12, 2018 15:24:05 GMT
Let's do this in a properly forum-like manner. Everybody ignores the post until I suggest looking at a used Canon Ixus of some stripe and then everyone piles in to tell Mike why I'm wrong. The Ixus is a serious recommendation, though. Here's a fine example of a used Ixus ... one careful owner www.ebay.co.uk/itm/282934164411?ul_noapp=true
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Post by Slinger on Oct 12, 2018 15:27:49 GMT
Let's do this in a properly forum-like manner. Everybody ignores the post until I suggest looking at a used Canon Ixus of some stripe and then everyone piles in to tell Mike why I'm wrong. The Ixus is a serious recommendation, though. Here's a fine example of a used Ixus ... one careful owner www.ebay.co.uk/itm/282934164411?ul_noapp=true"camera has some wear signs (pealed [sic] color [sic])" Obviously, the owner specialised in taking photographs of the sandblasting process.
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Post by julesd68 on Oct 12, 2018 15:30:40 GMT
Thanks very much Jules. Do you have a favourite from these 3 and if so what does it for you ? The idea of a small camera becomes more appealing at those prices and size. That's easy - the G7. You can see from design and controls it's more of an enthusiast's camera. You should find the robust SLR like controls much less fiddly to use and when you want them there are plenty of nice manual features in the camera. 10mp is more than enough pixels for what you need. My old 6mp SLR still gives superb results. The price is excellent for that camera - presumably low because one of the corners has had a knock - you would need to test thoroughly on receipt of course ...
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Post by ChrisB on Oct 12, 2018 16:58:31 GMT
Happy to (sort of) help! Hope you get on top of the problem.
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Post by MikeMusic on Oct 12, 2018 17:21:04 GMT
Thanks very much Jules. Do you have a favourite from these 3 and if so what does it for you ? The idea of a small camera becomes more appealing at those prices and size. That's easy - the G7. You can see from design and controls it's more of an enthusiast's camera. You should find the robust SLR like controls much less fiddly to use and when you want them there are plenty of nice manual features in the camera. 10mp is more than enough pixels for what you need. My old 6mp SLR still gives superb results. The price is excellent for that camera - presumably low because one of the corners has had a knock - you would need to test thoroughly on receipt of course ... I'm warming to the idea of a small camera for me. Could carry easily walking or on the bike and for situations where I need to move fast like a fox at the door or a monster bird flying through the trees. The boss's Canon is a big beast with more controls than I want
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Post by MikeMusic on Oct 12, 2018 17:21:53 GMT
Happy to (sort of) help! Hope you get on top of the problem. Thanks Chris. Appreciated. Will be trying out in the next few days and see what I get.
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Post by MikeMusic on Oct 14, 2018 12:56:23 GMT
That's easy - the G7. You can see from design and controls it's more of an enthusiast's camera. You should find the robust SLR like controls much less fiddly to use and when you want them there are plenty of nice manual features in the camera. 10mp is more than enough pixels for what you need. My old 6mp SLR still gives superb results. The price is excellent for that camera - presumably low because one of the corners has had a knock - you would need to test thoroughly on receipt of course ... I'm warming to the idea of a small camera for me. Could carry easily walking or on the bike and for situations where I need to move fast like a fox at the door or a monster bird flying through the trees. The boss's Canon is a big beast with more controls than I want G7 bought and paid for. Prepare for questions
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Post by MartinT on Oct 14, 2018 13:17:29 GMT
Make sure you have a card reader or reader slot in a laptop. It's much easier to grab images that way rather than faff with USB and the camera connection software.
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Post by julesd68 on Oct 14, 2018 13:19:14 GMT
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Post by MikeMusic on Oct 14, 2018 18:09:04 GMT
Make sure you have a card reader or reader slot in a laptop. It's much easier to grab images that way rather than faff with USB and the camera connection software. Have an SD slot on the laptop and desktop. One reason to not use the Olympus was the USB lead chore
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Post by MikeMusic on Oct 14, 2018 18:09:38 GMT
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Post by julesd68 on Oct 19, 2018 0:33:37 GMT
Has the G7 arrived Mike?
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Post by MikeMusic on Oct 19, 2018 9:34:58 GMT
It has ! I have opened the box and feeling less than confident put it to one side. Will investigate this morning
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Post by julesd68 on Oct 19, 2018 9:57:06 GMT
Go for it! You just want to run some very basic tests at this stage to check all working fine. Before you take any pix, have a look at manual for these settings - Make sure that the quality and image size is at max. You want to deselect any kind of dynamic area autofocus where the camera guesses what you want to focus on. Select a single point (centre of viewfinder) autofocus mode instead. This is often in P mode, not Auto, but not sure on your camera. Take a few simple test shots outside and send them to me please.
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Post by MikeMusic on Oct 19, 2018 11:10:36 GMT
Go for it! You just want to run some very basic tests at this stage to check all working fine. Before you take any pix, have a look at manual for these settings - Make sure that the quality and image size is at max. You want to deselect any kind of dynamic area autofocus where the camera guesses what you want to focus on. Select a single point (centre of viewfinder) autofocus mode instead. This is often in P mode, not Auto, but not sure on your camera. Take a few simple test shots outside and send them to me please. The boss took it and snapped away. Found the manuals supplied are all foreign so will go back to your kindly supplied download. There's a huge amount of options. Almost as many buttons. I assumed 'compact' meant much less. It is a real camera ! >Make sure that the quality and image size is at max. When I find out what they are I will ! >You want to deselect any kind of dynamic area autofocus where the camera guesses what you want to focus on. >Select a single point (centre of viewfinder) autofocus mode instead. This is often in P mode, not Auto, but not sure on your >camera. Ditto. Found P as I used that on the boss's big Canon >Take a few simple test shots outside and send them to me please. Hopefully this afternoon Now to look at the downloaded English manual 170 pages !
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Post by MikeMusic on Oct 19, 2018 11:44:09 GMT
Manual written for those who already know what they are doing. Used to be the bane of my life when trying to get software to work on PCs. The Manual written by people who know it all inside out already.
For the uninitiated. (Press On - left out) Press Display (Press Menu - left out) Press Camera Icon
Huge amount of functions. Lots going on in the manual. Can't see a "Take a simple Pic" page or function. Although it seems as if I can anyway. Probably going onto a card of sme sort or is it memory ? Did I miss something, a lot ?
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Post by Slinger on Oct 19, 2018 11:56:17 GMT
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Post by julesd68 on Oct 19, 2018 12:02:38 GMT
The beauty of this camera is that it is a point & shoot, and a much more advanced camera when you need it. If you just want to snap away now put Mode dial on AUTO and shoot. Images are stored on an SD memory card. You will get much better results generally though by putting in P and changing focus as I suggested. Go to page 61 of advanced manual and select ‘flexi zone’, making sure that focus box is selected to be in centre of screen as per pages 62-63. This way, whenever you take a photo, position centre box exactly where you want focus to be set, press shutter half way down to focus, then you can either press button down fully take shot, or keeping shutter pressed half way down, ‘recompose' the shot and then take the pic. See p34 for checking size and quality of pics. You have the advanced manual. After you've done those two things, here you can download the Basic manual which will be less overwhelming to show you the basics. see page 3 of this guide re memory card
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Post by MartinT on Oct 19, 2018 12:35:51 GMT
Wouldn't he have to load the film in the dark? I remember having to do that with my Standard 8 cine camera.
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Post by ChrisB on Oct 19, 2018 13:02:09 GMT
No, 120 film has backing paper on it, so you don't need to turn the lights out.
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