Although I enjoy writing this blog, taking pictures for it
and sharing the historic local pictures, it pays its way by advertising my
bookshop.
So another secondhand camera today which I hope, once I learn
to use it properly, will take some pictures that would be very difficult to
take with the camera on a mobile phone.
My day off today so I went off to Herne Bay and bought some
books, then had to come back to Ramsgate at lunchtime and so had lunch at
Wetherspoons in The Royal Victoria Pavilion here in Ramsgate.
The trouble with buying cameras or for that matter lots of
other things, is that you can’t try them out before you buy them. One of the
useful exceptions here is the Cex Shops now scattered around the area.
I have to admit that since I bought my first bridge camera last
year, a Canon S3 IS I have been fascinated by the whole concept of bridge
cameras, so I have been going into camera shops and Cex shops and trying some
out.
Up to now, nothing I could reasonably justify gambling the
money on looked worthwhile. But today when I tried out a secondhand £75 Nikon
Coolpix P90 I decided to give it a try. The worst case scenario is selling it
back to them for less.
This is Ramsgate Cemetery from Plains of Waterloo
Holy Trinity from the same place
Birds over the sea
but this is the main thing I bought it for, a ship on the horizon
If you want some amusement here is what's on the camera card, all taken on auto, as I haven't a clue about the settings yet https://photos.app.goo.gl/b4zBoSBgeQA5aHSI3
For some comparison here are today's shots from the Canon https://photos.app.goo.gl/91suVf1z5RHqbEBA3
Sometimes I am just astounded that professional people are
so far behind with their technology, one of my customers is retiring which
involves moving and asked me about selling their books. Mostly paperback
fiction. Have a look at the pictures of the fiction in my bookshop at http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/fiction/
says I. Then get out your mobile and photograph the spines of what you want to
sell and then share the file of photos with me. Honestly I could just as well
have been suggesting the engaged in some brain surgery, oh well.
Here are yesterdays new arrivals in the bookshop
I did do a bit more to my watercolour of the clockhouse while was in Wetherspoons
mainly these bits
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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.