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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
01-07-2017, 02:55 PM
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Here's one taken recently with my Nikon S9900 pocket camera. I had forgotten about this shot and discovered it again while browsing through my library in LR5.
According to the EXIF data it was taken at the 35mm equivalent of 629mm, 1/400 th @ f6.4 and ISO 160. It was also shot under overcast lighting conditions and through two panes of glass in the window.
It's not bad for a camera that will fit into a shirt pocket and has a 30x zoom.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
09-17-2016, 12:49 PM
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I had to shoot a couple of macro/close-up shots the other day and grabbed my Nikon Coolpix S9900 as it was right next to me in my desk drawer.
It didn't do too badly using the on-board flash and the macro setting on a camera that will fit into my shirt pocket and has a 30x zoom!
The shots were to make sure the battery cap was the correct type before I shipped it off to another forum member who had acquired an old Spotmatic II that was missing it's battery cap. I have a FUBAR'd Spotmatic II in a box of old camera parts and the cap was no use to me anymore so I sent it to him to help him out.
Pentaxians have to look after each other after all. :lol:
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
04-09-2014, 09:25 AM
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My first camera was a true 'toy' camera. I was about 10 years old (1967) and spotted it on a grocery store shelf while running an errand for my mother and I knew I just had to have it. I ran back home with the groceries and spent the next couple of hours begging and pleading with my mother until she finally gave in and coughed up the money for it on the understanding that I would do extra 'chores' for the next month! Once I had the money in my hand I ran back to the store hoping that they still had the camera in stock as there were only a couple left when I first spotted it. Now here's the kicker, what I actually had to buy was a 1 lb. bag of barley sugar boiled sweets (candies) and the camera was a free gift attached to the package! Total cost was a whopping 2/6d, two shillings and sixpence (in old UK money) or 25p (in modern UK money) or roughly 42c in current US money but you have to remember that you could get a packet of 20 ciggies for less than that price back then and I got one shilling (5p) a week as 'pocket money' for running errands and doing chores for my mother.
The camera itself was plastic bodied but had a glass lens and looked like a small, black, SLR and shot 126 roll film. Controls consisted of a film winder and a shutter release and that was it, the film had to be re-wound into its can by holding down a button which released the winder mechanism while turning a large recessed screw-head under the can with a coin. It actually took very good shots for what it was and I put many rolls of film through that camera. I still have some prints from that period in a box upstairs, maybe I should dig them out and scan them so that you can see just what that little toy camera could do.
I used that camera for a couple of years until my parents bought me a Kodak Instamatic ( G4AQB - Analogue Native!: Kodak ) for Christmas and that became my main camera right up until 1979 when I bought my first SLR, a used Pentax Spotmatic with 50mm and 135mm lenses.
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