The Insomniac Coder

All hear this: Operation "Gadget Lust" is in full effect. I am sacrificing my Nikon 1 J1 rig for the greater good (the greater good is defined as "Pedro wants another camera") The auction is for $650 Buy It Now, starts at $499.95 and includes free shipping and insurance, it is at  http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290666430189#ht_1491wt_1139  These images of the auction lot are not retouched, they have not been modified beyond simple cropping. I will gladly provide more pictures if requested.

These are mostly random shots set in one of the automatic modes while I learn how the camera behaves: This is the first time I get any obvious distortion in the panorama modes, note the back window of the Jeep .  This is shot using the blur background mode.  Most of the following were shot from a moving car, through dirty glass: Shot in HDR+ mode.  Overall the camera behaves almost exactly like the DSC-TX9, except the lens is much nicer, and the vibration reduction is more effective. It is really hard to take a bad shot with this camera. Colors are usually warm, except on video. I uploaded a sample in AVCHD 1080/60p here .

  This made me miss film a tiny little bit. The problem is that it also reminded me of how god damn expensive it was to shoot all that film, then either develop it (smelly, tedious, but rewarding) or having it sent out to process and print ($$$). Then I started remembering how much I sucked at using a light meter correctly, which was the most painful when shooting slides, which had a hell of a lot less room for error than print film. I shot a lot of blue snow, and flat shadows back in my film day. For some reason B&W film never gave me much grief. Tri-X and Plus-X always made me look like a hero, I really loved shooting these two films.  What killed my film addiction? A Sony digital camera that cost an arm and a leg, and had a huge, gorgeous chunk of glass as its lens. I tested one at my job, and liked it so much that I bought one for myself. That camera, the DSC-S70, let me take pictures I could have never figured out with my Nikon D60 35mm SLR.  It's been 1...