366 Days, 366 Photos: 01/17/2008

Center for Molecular Genetics, shot by Natalie Kardos

This is one of the lab buildings on campus. It’s not a particularly pretty building (none of them really are), but I really liked the symmetrical shadows on it this morning. This photo was taken with the Canon SD1000 and converted to black and white in Adobe Lightroom.

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Daily Photo : 01/08/2008

CMME Stairwell, shot by Natalie Kardos

This guy was actually also shot today. A surprising result, considering it was taken with the Canon SD1000. It’s frustrating at times, because I try to get the approximate metering I want by focusing it on different areas of the photo, but I feel like at lower ISO’s it performs great. I also feel like the transition to black and white more closely resembles black and white film than other digital cameras. Then again, it could just be the natural contrast of the shot – as far as I’m concerned, the more contrast, the better.

Another camera? You’ve got to be kidding me…

My Olympus digital point & shoot camera has been dying a slow death ever since I got it as a graduation present in 2004. It’s survived many trips, but I’ve had a few problems with it – mainly a) it takes xD cards which have never gone down in price, and b) about the only manual control I have over it is turning the flash on or off. Not very useful for me.

I’ve had my eye on the Canon Powershot SD1000 for a little while. The combination of its portable size (~the same as a pack of cigarettes) and its manual funtions (I can set ISO, spot metering, macro focusing, etc) won me over. About the only thing I wish it did was shoot in RAW format, instead of JPEG. Oh well.

I found a good deal on it from Circuit City over Thanksgiving, so I just couldn’t pass it up. And already it’s proven useful for the purpose I wanted it – to be portable, for those shots that you don’t expect but just kill you to pass up.