In The Photographer Blog image of the week feature that runs weekly on a Monday I share a photograph I have taken and talk a little about it. So I thought it would be good to take a close look at the camera I am using at the moment to take the photographs.
My Traveler DC-5080 is the camera I use at the moment and was a present from my husband a couple of years ago. As point and shoots go it’s at the cheap end of the range, but it is a 5 million pixel camera and I feel takes really nice photos.
Although it does have limitations because of the model I was pleasantly surprised by the options that it does have. Including different photography modes like macro, sport, night, portrait, landscape and backlight. It also has a movie mode although I don’t use that much.
The features that interest me the most are the settings and how much I can adjust them. On this camera I can adjust the EV compensation, white balance, ISO, colour, sharpness and saturation. And these are the settings that I want to learn more about, I will be looking at them seperately in future posts. But I am very happy that I can adjust these and have a mess around with them to see how they work. This is the part of taking photographs that I want to improve on, adjusting the settings to improve the image that I am taking.
The camera itself is nice and small with an internal rechargeable battery making it ideal to stick in my pocket whenever I go out, because you never know when a photo opportunity may happen. All in all it’s a descent starter digital camera for me, and will let me get to grips with the settings and learn more about digital photography.
Which camera do you use on a daily basis?
Mandy
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Hi, my name is Mandy, and I created the Photographer blog to help DSLR beginners get more out of their cameras and their photography.
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Traveler DC-5080 camera was a gift I received from a friend. Even though it’s a lovely camera, am not able to make use of all that it offers because the manual is written in German and other languages alien to me. Efforts to obtain the English version of the manual is proving futile.
Can i be helped? How and Where
It depends what you are struggling with? A lot of digital camera functions and icons are the same or similar on most cameras these days. And there is a lot of helpful tips on the internet for point and shoot cameras (and on this blog) that you will be able to use on your camera. Hope this helps…
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