{"id":36,"date":"2009-05-12T02:00:02","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T00:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.svenneve.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2009-06-09T17:40:29","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T15:40:29","slug":"point-and-shoot-dammit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.svenneve.com\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Point and … Shoot dammit!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CanonBought a Canon Ixus 95 IS a couple of weeks ago, after browsing the web for hours and hours upon end to find decent reviews on various cameras, i came to the conclusion, don’t focus too much on quality, just take something that actually points and shoots and has enough options and settings for you to tinker with.<\/p>\n

So, just after strolling into a photo equiment store i found this camera, the Canon Ixus 95 IS<\/a>, and the price was slashed (cheaper than i could find anywhere online) because the store was quitting as people these days tend to buy more and more online giving retailers a hard time, bad for them, good for me.<\/p>\n

After having played with it for a couple of weeks now, i must admint, i’m pretty amazed at the quality of these little things these days, sure, it doesn’t beat my 350D<\/a> with Canon EF-S 17-55mm f\/2.8 IS USM<\/a> attached, but then again, that thing doesn’t fit in my pocket.<\/p>\n

The camera starts up nice and fast, so it’s ideal for those ‘moments’ photos.<\/p>\n

It has enough features and settings to tweak the camera enough so it is able to make more than decent pictures .<\/p>\n

For example, i have to permanently keep the thing stopped down for atleast 2\/3 EV so it won’t give you the trademark digital point-and-shoot look (you know, the burned out, white clipped and chromatic abberation garbage.)<\/p>\n

My only 2 big gripes with this thing though are the fact that the camera needs a lot of light, otherwise the sensor noise becomes appearant very fast, and combine that with the overly aggresive noise reduction, it can quickly ruin an otherwise nice image.<\/p>\n

Here’s some pictures taken with the camera, a macro shot, and two shots of my dog, one closup to show the fur detail (and a close crop to show the insane noise reduction at work) and a shot of my dog in full sunlight with some nice fill bounce from the grass and floor.<\/p>\n

All images are resized to 800×600 using a BSpline resampling algorithm, the JPEGs are then saved out again using a float DCT method, a 1×1 subsampling factor on all channels, Optimized Huffman table, smoothing is off of course and JPEG quality is set to 90%.<\/p>\n

\"Dandelion<\/a>\"Pan<\/a>\"Plan<\/a>\"Pan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bought a Canon Ixus 95 IS a couple of weeks ago, after browsing the web for hours and hours upon end to find decent reviews on various cameras, i came to the conclusion, don’t focus too much on quality, just take something that actually points and shoots and has enough options and settings for you…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[5,7,6,4,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.svenneve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.svenneve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.svenneve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.svenneve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.svenneve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.svenneve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"http:\/\/www.svenneve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.svenneve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.svenneve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.svenneve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}