S3 IS

This is about one tenth of the total frame of 1.94 mb, cut out of the middle of the photo, saturated slightly and USM in Paintshop Pro. Its part of a huge dried flowers arrangement that I have made over the years, using dried flowers from my garden. They are all contained in a lovely big mossy green vase. This one was not zoomed on the lens. When I zoom it I can get very very close from where I was sitting 6 feet away from the subject. It has a super macro setting too. Does short movies, and sound bytes. Man, this little camera is fun. The 4 AA alkaline batteries have been running through all this time. The NiMH AA batteries are charged and ready to go though. And the 1 GB SD card is formatted and ready to go also. I am using the little card that came with, for practise though.

I just got my Canon Powershot S3 IS. It has a 12X lens, which was the main attraction. I am familiar with most of the shooting modes from my 35mm Canon Elan 7e. But that long lens is great, so far. I still have much more to learn in using this little camera. I find the buttons are rather small and hard to manage. They seem to be less than half the size of the Elan's. And I have small hands. I cannot imagine how anyone with bigger fingers would be able to turn it off, without using a pen or stylus of some kind. Turning it on would be even more difficult.

Last night I had the Elan set out to try capture star trails again. I wiped the mist a couple of times, through the night. The camera was up from about 9 pm to 5 am. That is the last I am going to try with this fujichrome Velvia 50. It is not really a fast enough film to use for this. It probably is all fogged out anyway. Its a 36 exposure roll, so I have about 8 shots left to find something good to shoot, in good bright light.