Lunar Shots - Taking Pictures of the Moon

In my early days with Picasso, I tried clicking the moon with the full zoom (12X) using my Canon Powershot S3 IS in the 'Auto' mode. But, it always turned out to be a white blurred blob.

After doing a little research on the internet, I learnt some tricks about the 'Custom' option of my camera. I adjusted my shutter speed to 1/160, the aperture priority to f3.5, zoomed 12X and clicked. Voila! See what I got...



This is a cropped image, but I was really impressed with what I could do with this camera. I am sure had I got a tripod and a lens, the image would have been even sharper.

Picasso - My Canon PowerShot S3 IS

Today, I got the camera that I bought; my Canon PowerShot S3 IS. Its a real beauty, not just cos how it looks, but also the pictures that it takes. I christened it as Picasso cos of the great artistic abilities it possesses. :-)

I played around with a little bit today and I am already impressed about what I can do with it. Here are some of the point-and-shoot pictures that I took. Have a look!

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Most of these pics were clicked in 16:9 wide aspect ratio, which is a very cool feature of this camera. You can even shoot movies this way!

Photography - An Emerging Passion

After trying out my hands with various digital cameras of my friends (such as Canon Ixus, Casio Exilim) I have decided to equip myself with one too.

After browsing through hundreds of 'em in Amazon and trying out a few of them in the local mall, I have finalized on Canon S3 IS. Its an SLR-like 6MP digi-cam and has an unbelievable 12x optical zoom. The pics taken from this cam looks amazing. The best feature is definitely its 12x optical zoom and the image-stabilization. It also provides feature to capture images and movies in the 16:9 aspect ratio. Just too eager to get my hands on it.

Amazon.com is charging me some 16 grands for the cam and the 2 GB Ultra SD Memory Card. However the current market price for just the cam in India is 27K. Definitely recommending to all the photography freaks.

I will be getting it on 17th of this month. Will keep the Flickr updated with my latest shots. So keep looking.... :-)