We went to Margate today and I thought I would try the new fad of using a retro camera.
So this is my oldest bridge camera a Panasonic DMC– FZ30 this dates from 2005,
so 21 years old which I think is probably pretty ancient for a digital camera.
What I'm hoping is that I get some sort of retro look to the photos.
The only thing I had real issues with was the viewfinder which started off a bit dark
and it's part of the reason that a lot of the pictures are not straight.
As we were going for a walk, most of them were very much snapshots. The good thing about the camera is it has a very large aperture.
The other feature which I have never had or seen on any other digital camera is that
you can set it so you have four analogue knobs with which you can control, aperture,
shutter speed, focus and zoom. Effectively this means that you have the same sort of
control as you would have had a professional the film camera back in the day.
I used to use a thing called a Nikon F back in the day.
One thing I didn't account for is that the camera is much slower than the camera
in my phone to focus so some of the shots maybe a bit blurry.
Hopefully now the ones from my phone (S22 Ultra) camera for comparison
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