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bought a new digital camera today (images inside)
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as the subject says, i bought a new digital camera today, a fujifilm S5100.
i have a song dsc-p32 which is nice for little point and shoot photos. no zoom, no great features. i gets me by. but i have always wanted something more professional.
i am not a professional by any stretch of the word, but my other camera is just *too* basic. spending $799 on something like the nikon coolpix 8700 would have been too much.
i found this fuji for $350 at best buy, on special from $399.
4 megapixel (same as my sony, which i am happy with the quality)
10x optical zoom (which i am in love with)
burst mode is very nice. one mode shoots up to 40 photos. i need to test this on something moving. might go to universal studios next week, rollercoasters would be a good subject.
supports RAW mode. hopefully iphoto5 will support the files.
i wanted to post this just incase anyone else is thinking of a new camera. i would advise this camera for someone else on a budget and not looking for anything too professional.
some photos i took today.
other than the chess piece and fan, they are all on 10x optical zoom, with subjects being between 3 - 5 meters (10 - 15 feet) (squirrels) and 20 meters (60 feet) (cooker & sign)
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Sure does look warm...
are you obsessed with squirrels or just over-run by them? 
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Looks like a nice SLR-like camera. 10x optical zoom and RAW is a big plus. Congratulations. Thanks for the "warm" looking pictures - it's snowing and it's 2�F here right now.
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Originally posted by waxcrash:
Looks like a nice SLR-like camera. 10x optical zoom and RAW is a big plus. Congratulations. Thanks for the "warm" looking pictures - it's snowing and it's 2�F here right now.
Make that 2Fn? Here!
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Congratulations.
i also bought a new camera this week. a sony cyber-shot p150, its 7.2 megapixels and is smaller than my ipod.
$611 with tax and two years of accidental care.
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Originally posted by KeriVit:
are you obsessed with squirrels or just over-run by them?
a bit of both. those photos were taken at college tonight. there are so many squirrels on my campus. they are always around the trees and in the grass, about 4 or 5 to a group, and lots of groups.
rats with good people skills
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I�ve got an S5000 in addition to my Olympus E-100RS.
Great camera; burst mode only works with 1MP resolution though - I used it to to photograph a Marathon here in town.
The only thing that bothers me about Fuji is the awful compression they use; but iPhoto 5 might be able to fix that when they support RAW import for Fuji.
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mdc - do you ever get any red squirrels in Florida, or have the grey ones killed them all off?
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Originally posted by mdc:
a bit of both. those photos were taken at college tonight. there are so many squirrels on my campus. they are always around the trees and in the grass, about 4 or 5 to a group, and lots of groups.
rats with good people skills
i am obsessed with squirrels too. I took a lot of squirrels pictures at close range. they are indeed smart with good people skills.
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indeed, my friend used to have some as pets and they were surprisingly smart.
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Nice pictures, thank you for sharing. 
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Originally posted by cszar2001:
The only thing that bothers me about Fuji is the awful compression they use; but iPhoto 5 might be able to fix that when they support RAW import for Fuji.
i was looking through the settings on the camera and there are two 4mp settings. normal and fine. one saves photos at around 1mb and the other at around 2mb. i took photos of the same thing with each setting and the 2mb one does look better and sharper.
Originally posted by engaged:
mdc - do you ever get any red squirrels in Florida, or have the grey ones killed them all off?
I have not been here for all that long, but i think i heard something once about grey squirrels coming in and killing all the red ones.
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Here is a pic of my first picture with my new camera that i mentioned above.
Finaly a quality product at the dell store! =)
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