Saturday, September 09, 2006
New Camera
With 3 1/2 years of use, a few times around the world and several memorable drops (the one down the steps on Bondi Beach especially) our old Olympus Stylus 300 finally bowed out and died. The lens cover came off at Rik's birthday party. Although the camera still works (by sliding the little black thing around for a while) we thought it was about time we upgraded.
After a record short research and decision making period (2 weeks) we finally decided to buy the new Olympus Stylus 270 SW. The "SW" stands for shock and water resistant. You can drop this camera 5 feet onto concrete or take it down 10 feet in the ocean and it still goes - sounds perfect.
Heading out with a few test shots from the kitchen sink or a pint glass under our belts, we took the camera down to Torrey Pines state beach on a perfect post-labor day Saturday at Torrey Pines. Well, the camera lived up to its spec. and survived being in my pocket surfing for about an hour. It takes a pretty good picture too, though many are over exposed due to the large amount of white water that always seemed to accompany Sarah coming by on a wave. Still getting used to all the options but in general it is very easy to point and shoot. The "motor-drive" feature is very useful which helped me get the one good surfing picture (out of about 20).
You can see the rest of the shots in my picassa album.
