After 3 years of great service, I’m semi-retiring my Canon Ixy (2.1 Megapixel) in favour of my new Canon Ixy 500 (5 Megapixel). I can’t go into all the details here, but needless to say, this thing has a whole raft of new features, and the picture quality really is amazing, as I think you can see in the Niseko gallery. I’m really loving how many more pictures I can attempt now, and see if I can do some more justice to the things I see around me.

All I have to do now is figure out how to take decently framed shots of interesting stuff. I think I should head over to Bastish.net for some inspiration. His stuff is amazing (and I thought that even before he left some comments on this blog !) I just wish I could find the shot of the monk looking at the girl on the train again - curse my failing memory!

On the subject of cameras, the best reviews seem to be on DPReview, and Steve’s Digicams.

If you’re a Mac owner and have .Mac, they also have some good tutorials as part of the iPhoto information.

Original Comments

Comments from the original WordPress blog post.

Rudolf — 2004-03-21

Monk Checks Chick Out:

http://www.bastish.net/rememberwhen/002392.html

Kevin is a rock star:

http://www.thewesternworld.net/blog/pics/BloggerMeetup2.html

kevin — 2004-03-21

The trick is to take hundred, and hundreds of photos…. about ten may end up with interesting stuff… of those, one or two may be interestingly framed :)

BTW, my camera is only 2 megapixles, but I too am thinking to upgrade to a DSLR. Not because I am not happy with the quality, but because I want to play with all the cool photographer-lingo features, like aperture, and other things I have been learning about, but can’t control with my camrea.

graham — 2004-03-22

Thanks for the comments. I really liked my little Ixy, but it did sometimes do odd things with colour and such. The new one is great though, but yeah, I think I should maybe just take more and abuse the 512Mb worth of Compact Flash I have (50% donated or came with camera!)