Seedfork's blog: Once again light rain, on and off, but mostly off

Posted on Apr 18, 2015 8:50 PM

We have had another dreary day, everything is soaked. I have a patch of Iris that is starting to turn black just from too much moisture. I may have to dig them up and dry them out.
I managed to get all my new plant markers printed out and got a lot of them put in the garden. There are quite a few I am having to wait on the plants to bloom to know what they are. The critters keep rearranging the labels and the plants. Even after I have put the netting all around my seedlings, the critter got in and just made a mess of everything again last night. Now I am thinking maybe it is not an armadillo but another raccoon. I got some cat food from my neighbor and baited the trap with that this afternoon, so maybe I will see what it is. If I don't catch it, my neighbor thinks she can get hold of wildlife camera that should catch a photo of the creature. Anyhow, 100 plant markers went in a hurry, and I could use another hundred, but they will have to wait a while now.
I did get my camera this afternoon, but did not have a lot of time to use it. My neighbor cleaned out the chicken house and let me have the results! So I shoveled all that into the compost pile.
I did at least get a little time to play with the new camera, first impression is that it is a lightweight, flimsy, cheaply made piece of plastic. It is almost the same size as my old camera, but the old one had a metal body, and it used six double AAA batteries and Compact flash. All of that gave it a heft that make it have a much more quality feel about it. This one had an all plastic body, uses a single battery, and a tiny SDHC card all resulting in it feeling like I am holding a toy camera.
The good news is my old camera was described in a camera review as having a learning curve as steep as Mt. Everest, and it was the most awful, hardest to learn, user unfriendly menu system you could possibly imagine. The new camera is so much more user friendly I would say at least a hundred times better in that respect. Now my old camera had a 1gb(maybe two) limit on the card size, it was only a 5mp chip and only had 8x zoom power. I only bought a 16 gb class 10 card for the new one, but it could go much, much larger. The new camera, has 60x zoom, I don't know what I was expecting with 60x, but it is not nearly as powerful as I thought it would be from the videos I saw on YouTube, not really that impressed. The new camera has a 16 mp chip, but I have only shot with it at 8 mp so far. I would really love to have had an 8mp 10x camera with a much larger chip, but that would probably run around a thousand dollars if they even make one.
The first photos I took were way to saturated in color, I made some adjustments and then got it too low on the saturation, but by tomorrow with a little more time I should have it just right. The photos themselves are decent, not striking but they look good to me. For my little flower taking photography the camera will be great I think, and the colors seem to be much more accurate than with my old camera so far.
Here are my first few photos, I do expect them to get better as time goes on.

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