A brief search around a few blogs or forums will tell anyone that I am not the only bead maker that has ‘issues’ with my camera.
Most of the time it is well behaved – a little Canon A550 entry level point & shoot that will captures kids, pets, scenery & flowers quite nicely - albeit not with the finesse of my older , tired & temperamental Canon G2, but it does the job....sort of.
Most of the time it is well behaved – a little Canon A550 entry level point & shoot that will captures kids, pets, scenery & flowers quite nicely - albeit not with the finesse of my older , tired & temperamental Canon G2, but it does the job....sort of.
“Issues” is really an understatement when it comes to beads – we are at war!
Quite frankly – it hates me….& the feeling is entirely mutual. I’m sure when I turn it on in the vicinity of beads it sneers at me – I’ve heard it. It then gets stubborn & refuses to capture colour & light correctly or consistently, displays a nasty temper by showing me random coloured backgrounds ranging from blue, yellow through to pink tinged – when all have been taken in identical lighting conditions, within seconds of each other on the same manual settings.
Quite frankly – it hates me….& the feeling is entirely mutual. I’m sure when I turn it on in the vicinity of beads it sneers at me – I’ve heard it. It then gets stubborn & refuses to capture colour & light correctly or consistently, displays a nasty temper by showing me random coloured backgrounds ranging from blue, yellow through to pink tinged – when all have been taken in identical lighting conditions, within seconds of each other on the same manual settings.
The one that thinks Cuteness plays a part!It really should be grateful that it is being used over it’s heftier Big Brother the “G2”. Maybe it thinks it can get away with it because of it’s ‘cute’ factor. Who knows??
War indeed - & it is NOT going to win!
I have a plan – a cunning plan. In fact if it was any more cunning I could pin a tail on it & call it a weasel.
My plan will scare it into submission….well, I hope it will.
I have started making certain noises around my wee A550 – noise that involve the phrases “SLR” & “Canon Digital Rebel XSi” (or as it is known here the EOS 450D …personally I far prefer the one with Rebel in the name – lol).
Today I went one step further & even went to the camera store & fondled a Rebel XSi. As I cradled that sexy beast (& it is SEXY!) in my hand I realised just how much I missed the feel of a real camera – the wonderful balance they seem to have that comes with the additional size & weight, not to mention the complete control you have when manually focusing via a lens….
When we played around with photographing some beads ‘au natural’ it’s true power became immediately apparent……
War indeed - & it is NOT going to win!
I have a plan – a cunning plan. In fact if it was any more cunning I could pin a tail on it & call it a weasel.
My plan will scare it into submission….well, I hope it will.
I have started making certain noises around my wee A550 – noise that involve the phrases “SLR” & “Canon Digital Rebel XSi” (or as it is known here the EOS 450D …personally I far prefer the one with Rebel in the name – lol).
Today I went one step further & even went to the camera store & fondled a Rebel XSi. As I cradled that sexy beast (& it is SEXY!) in my hand I realised just how much I missed the feel of a real camera – the wonderful balance they seem to have that comes with the additional size & weight, not to mention the complete control you have when manually focusing via a lens….
When we played around with photographing some beads ‘au natural’ it’s true power became immediately apparent……
The Big, Black, Sexy one that knows betterAnyway you get the idea! I’m trying to scare that cute wee A550 into submission – don’t know if it will work, but I sure am enjoying the memory of that Sexy Black Rebel!... (& if the wee cute but useless thing doesn't know that I can't actually afford to buy one - well that doesn't matter...does it?)
4 comments:
OK...your plan had me cracking up...talk about a turn of a phrase...love the cunning and weasel one. :)
Ooooooo, sexy! But don't tell your camera I said so ;) I'm also whispering this, just so my poor little bitty Nikon Coolpix won't hear me! Little cameras are great workhorses, but oh, man, the big boy cameras are just so, well, sexy.
Looks good to me! Sexy, isn't quite the word, but WOW! Reminds me of things I'd rather not think about right now, but wow!
Oh Mallory - you should have seen it with the bigger appendage attached....oopsy - I mean Lens!
Lisa - the 'cunning as a weasel' phrase isn't mine sadly (we don't even have weasels here in New Zealand ) - I'm afraid that one is a direct steal from the TV series "Blackadder" with Rowan Atkinson :o)
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