Earlier this month I had the pleasure of taking a river cruise of sorts through Berlin... including both the former East and West parts.I shot the photos with my new Canon SD700 camera (which I'm generally pleased but not thrilled with) and posted them on various services.
See my Berlin boat tour photos on...
- Flickr [ set | slideshow ] (strong community, many features, good privacy protection)
- Fotki [ set | slideshow not directly linkable ] (handy admin features, nice hierarchical options)
- Picasa Web Albums [ set | slideshow ] (smart pre-caching, great Picasa integration)
You may note a few funky/overly-general tags (e.g., "Places" and "Geography" and such). This is because I'm having problems debugging a hierarchical-categories-to-IPTC-script. If that doesn't mean anything to you, no worries; it's only a minor annoyance and doesn't affect the photos themselves :-D.
I did slight editing (brightness, contrast, cropping, etc.) using Corel's Paint Shop Pro X (trial version; I'm a paid user of version 8... and God what awful URLs!!!) and organized/tagged the photos using the incomparable and very affordable software called IMatch by Photools.
My thoughts on my new Canon SD700 camera:
- Startup time is wonderfully fast.
- Very easy to use.
- Feels comfortable, solid in my hands.
- Outdoor photos are consistently good, even in lower light.
- Zoom is great, even with movies.
- Movies can be taken even in quite low light!
- Battery life is amazing! I literally shot for hours a day always using the LCD, never once got a low battery warning!
But...
- The image stabilizer helps quite a bit, but still doesn't allow for very-low-light photos.
- Photos -- even at the highest quality setting -- aren't as sharp as I'd like. This is my biggest complaint.
- Battery/SD card door feels flimsy.
- The damn thing is pricey (as "low" as $449 at reputable places).
- I still envy the much thinner/lighter ultra-compacts that my friends have (even though they don't take near-as-nice photos).
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Anyway, I hope you enjoy the pics, and I'd love your feedback and shoutouts and such either here in my blog comments and/or in the comments in the galleries themselves. :-D
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