new camera

My new camera arrived today, a Konica Minolta Dimage Z3. This is a replacement for my much-loved Dimage Z1 which had been misbehaving, so I gave it to my brother. When it arrived by post, it had obviously been knocked around so much in transit that it is now fully functional again. Oh well, I had already paid for the new one.

This shot is a detail of a piece of pottery in our kitchen, and the brown in the bottom left is a piece of yellowy-brown slightly glossy card. This was taken from about 10 feet away, with the camera on maximum zoom - 12 x optical and 4 x digital - and flash. I usually disable digital zoom as on these cameras the resulting photos are very grainy. But here I was playing around with a new toy.

(All earlier photos in this blog were taken with the Dimage Z1, as were those on the Eden Project and Cardiff pages of www.electricallanguage.co.uk)