[barondla]

Excellent photos everyone. Well done.

Just a note to say the Point & Shoot photo contest is open to all brands of cameras. please give it a look in the compact camera forum and enter a few images.
Thanks,
barondla

Excellent photos everyone. Well done.

Thank you. This thread is a little "neglected".

the Point & Shoot photo contest is open to all brands of cameras

Oh, I didn't know that, I had to overlooked the forum. Thank you once more.


BTW. Toy cameras are not for night photos (pic.1), but if one think it may get like the other one (pic.2).

[paulh]

Canon SD1100 IS [xposted]

[kyteflyer]

BTW. Toy cameras are not for night photos

I disagree. A decent light source will allow toy cameras to work just fine for night shots. Olympus XZ-1

[ERNR]

Ricoh WG4.

[ERNR]

Also WG4, which does macro pretty well.

[TinaS]

Greetings, toy camera shooters. Nice photos, everyone. I’ve been out for a while. Life has been insanely busy. I’m waiting anxiously for UPS to bring my new toy - canon g7 x mk ii. Hope everyone here has been well.

[ERNR]

Closeup with the Ricoh WG4

[TinaS]

Playing with the new toy.

I disagree. A decent light source will allow toy cameras to work just fine for night shots. Olympus XZ-1

Ma'am, Olympus XZ-1 camera is not a "toy"! Contrary to the Panasonic LUMIX DMC-LS80 I'm using.

Nevertheless you touched interesting point of view. My real toy cameras are/were very capricious, I've never known why they, especially Panasonic, it selects some settings and "open" itself for night shoots. Forget those Scene Mode. Panasonic gives images with fine grain in good light but in shadows and bigger and bigger color grain from 200 to 400 ISO. So photographing in the night is a lottery, for me at least with that camera.

On the other hand such a toy may be a nice tool for testing night compositions. Of course, I had to help yourself with GIMP, then and today. Two images from living room window were taken few years ago and they had been corrected then. The one with road zebra was shot from kitchen, but I had to straightened up whole composition. All enhanced shots together with ful size and downsized siblings were placed in the Nights in My Eyes Album on Yandex Disk.

See yourselves how far behind Pentax lenses and its DSLRs. One cannot results from Zero.

If you want to compare night pictures with their versions, run through
A Study on Night Shots album from Yandex Disk.

Best regards

P.S. I've corrected address to Yandex album.

Night Elves

Not all, of course, just another two of them.

Best regards

P.S. Sometimes "toy" cameras can, but when and how it's unpredictable.

Crystal Night


and

Orange Nights

[TinaS]

The g7 in toy camera mode

No matter what one's using camera during the first learning years. Even grown up shooters jump back to the Past to check how to "it was"far, far away in Time.
I'm still standing in the nice period named Back to the Future. Someday maybe.

But I did not find out my unique types of shots. Just like others, I'm still searching for what would please me above other photo pleasures. In other words it's highly probably that I will never ever be one type shooter. Too much wonderful subjects around me which beg to be shot.

Here are few latest uploads.

My best regards

It doesn't mean Black & White. I roamed that path some days. Not having flash lamps, but "special" magnifying glass and LED torch and two sources of light bulb flashlights (they give yellow light) I'm using high noon Sun rays. They are so strong that camera dims background to 98% blackness. Only one caveat - you should shoot close to window as Sun is high on the sky. Window highly makes efficient directional floodlight. Let's see. Of course I had to touch the shots with GIMP's paintbrush.

My best regards

[paulh]

Nice looking images, veraser.

I might be looking for a nicer p&s one of these days. My beloved Fuji X10 met a premature death, so I've been using old Canon Powershots. Here's one from a few years ago - SD1100 IS