What is a Small Digital Camera? (Pictures Added!)

[Gdad]

Thanks all-

Love this shot---the silhouette of the hand

Yes the hands- I chimped out like 100 or so shots with a hand in the middle of them since the gals in front of us pretty much kept their hands up like that the whole show. Of course they did stop several dozen times to take arms length flash self portraits of which I must be in the background of every single one shielding my eyes.

all of the cell phones (?) in the audience and the colors are great.

Probably some cell phones but mostly light up toys- lots of kids there and they had some stuff that would make the Disney cart vendors jelous

 

[racreel]

If he's there alone, that's kinda creepy...

He must be a big fan!

 

[Gdad]

Great shots Jeff!! I do have one question though; I bought DW the same camera a year or so ago because of some pictures that you took at the studios and the Beauty/Beast show with it. How do you get around the high noise? It seems like all of her pictures have a lot of noise. I know what to do with my Pentax (slap on the 50mm prime) but not really an option for us, is it? Here is a good example I think.

Thanks- I have no idea I really did no processing at all. My technique was as follows:

1 - Put the camera in 'Night Scene' mode
2 - Hold the camera out in front of me zooming usually to maximum
3 - Time it to avoid the swaying hands
4 - Press the button

I will admit a few of them I shot at a -1 EV but found it irritating that the camera always reset that to zero when shut off (which I had to keep doing because I forgot to put new batteries in the thing.) Aside from that all I did was resize the lot in Lightroom (no NR) and upload to Flickr. Looking now though I see every shot was taken at ISO 250- I have no idea why I would have guessed 'Night Scene' mode would have bumped it up. I probably should read the manual.

What ISO was the pup taken at?

 

[RBennett]

Thanks- I have no idea I really did no processing at all. My technique was as follows:

1 - Put the camera in 'Night Scene' mode
2 - Hold the camera out in front of me zooming usually to maximum
3 - Time it to avoid the swaying hands
4 - Press the button

I will admit a few of them I shot at a -1 EV but found it irritating that the camera always reset that to zero when shut off (which I had to keep doing because I forgot to put new batteries in the thing.) Aside from that all I did was resize the lot in Lightroom (no NR) and upload to Flickr. Looking now though I see every shot was taken at ISO 250- I have no idea why I would have guessed 'Night Scene' mode would have bumped it up. I probably should read the manual.

What ISO was the pup taken at?

He was shot at ISO 800. The only light we were using was from a large picture window about 6 feet to the left of this picture. And then recently she took some night shots at Disney that just came out kind of bad. But I will do some more testing with Night Mode and see what happens! Thanks! I thought maybe there was some PP that you did or weird settings that I wasn't aware of on her camera.

 

[Gdad]

The IS in the camera seems to work pretty well. A lot of the ones I shot were the 35mm equiv of a 350mm lens and it looks like the shutter speeds were 1/60 to 1/30 with a few even lower. I guess try a lower ISO and slower shutter speed might help.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Just taking a guess here...

I am assuming they do not want DSLR's in the venue. Now of course a DSLR could only have a 10-20mm lens on it and a P&S could have as much as 300mm of reach but the big point I think they try to make is that if a person is allowed to bring a DSLR, they should be allowed to take their 500mm f2 lens (if there is such a thing) with it if they so desire. This becomes a problem to the other people at the show when your lens is blocking their view. Therefore, they are not trying to make it so that you CAN'T take a pic (thus allowing P&S cameras) but more that it is the possible physical size of the DSLR that bugs them.

This was explained to me by a Fenway Park employee. Although they don't care what you bring into Fenway, they did say that I would have to give up my seat if it got in the way of other people watching the game (and they complained about it).

This makes complete sense.

I saw Paul McCartney at Fenway this summer and deliberately didn't bring in my dSLR, thinking it was about the artist not wanting non-pro pictures out there. I'd taken it into Aerosmith at Tweeter several weeks earlier and was a little paranoid there and even caught a little bit of flack here about it when I posted some pics.

So I was completely the night at Fenway when I saw everyone openly walking and shooting with their dSLRs. Fortunately I had my trusty S3 in my purse so did manage to get a few decent shots (we were high above home plate and the stage was in the outfield) as well as some neat video footage of my kids singing along which I now treasure, so it wasn't by any means a total loss.

It's just a little frustrating not knowing what the right thing to do is.

McCartney

Aerosmith w/ Dropkick Murphys

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Jeff, what a great night with your DD!

I'm sure we'll be heading to see Miley at some point, also. I've even gotten to like some of her songs. I don't know if you remember my posting a story a couple of years ago - I was driving in my car one beautiful spring day with the windows wide open, channel surfing and couldn't quite find any good songs on the radio. I hit the CD button and one of my DD's Disney CDs was in there. So I hit play and began to enjoy Miley's If We Were A Movie - the way I like my music: very loudly. I pulled up to a stop light and noticed that my music turned the head of a driver in front of me and to my right (in a very nice car, the likes of which I'd never seen before) - and dammit, he chuckled. (Hey, what can I say, it's a catchy tune!) The light turned green and as I passed him, to my chagrin I realized it was Joey Kramer, Aerosmith's drummer. I actually had my dSLR right on the passenger seat but never thought/didn't have time to fire off a shot or two. LOL

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Wait a minute, I think I saw his cousin on the beach last year. (Or was it Kramer?)

 

[J3nn78]

One of the "regular camera" guys with 2 canon bodies has a white tag on his bag, I would guess he has media access. Maybe from local paper? I doubt they let paying spectators bring in step stools either.

We took our older son (4) to see Starwars in Concert last week. I just borrowed my father-in-law's very basic nikon coolpics since I assumed a DSLR wouldn't be allowed. The P&S nikon was crap, my Iphone took just as good of an image somehow. No manual controls, F5.6 lens. Seemed like 3 stops of DR.

Now I want to get a good small camera for just such occasions. Im thinking the Panasonic LX3 would work, F2 to F2.8 24-60 lens.

 

[AndrewWG]

Great shots Jeff! I got lucky and had my sister take DD10 to the concert in Boston a few weeks ago. I "couldn't" go because my sister bought the tickets on her credit card (for her and her daughter to go) but her daughter ended up not being able to go. They gave her "ticket" to my daughter instead. However, they were will-call tickets so my sister had to be there to pick them up, being the one who bought them with her credit card. Confusing enough? Well, the bottom line is PHEW! I didn't have to go. I would have if I had to though......

 

[Quicklabs]

You did a great job, Jeff! And what a wonderful dad you are to tolerate that concert! LOL

 

[spinetnglr]

Really nice shots Jeff!! Looks and sounds like you and DD had an awesome time.

 

[dishappygirl]

Is Canon G11 good?

 

[boBQuincy]

Is Canon G11 good?

It was about time to hijack this thread anyway.

I suppose good is relative but if your question is "is the G11 good for concert photos?" the answer is a sort of yes. *Except* that the G11 has a lot less zoom range I would say it is at least as good as the SX110 Gdad used . However... Gdad is a very accomplished photographer and is good at getting the best out of whatever camera he uses. It would take some experience before we might expect to get as good results as he did.

The G11 is loaded with Canon's latest bag of tricks, IS, noise reduction, RAW, and a smaller sensor to improve image quality over the previous generation. It works, the G11 does better at high ISO than just about any comparable P&S (from what I read). Image quality at lower ISO is very good too. Still, it is no dSLR nor does it come close in image quality when lighting conditions get difficult. The key point is it may be good enough to meet (or exceed) our expectations, especially if we do not wish to carry a dSLR.

We have a G11 and have tried it in many lighting conditions, it does well up to about ISO 1200 which is good enough for many indoor photos without flash.

 

[Evad]

I think everybody is missing the point here. You are all saying what a great dad Jeff is for taking Camryn to the concert but it was really Camryn that took Jeff.
It's Jeff that is the huge MC fan....


Great pics Jeff!!

 

[Gdad]

It's Jeff that is the huge MC fan....

Hey! Leave my weight out of this!