a digicam in the middle of vegas
last weekend, we went to vegas. it was an impromptu trip, meaning we all woke up that saturday morning without any thought of spending that night in the strip.
it started out like any saturday in our house. that menas i get up, brew a pot of coffee, drive out and get a baker's dozen of einstein bro's bagels[they have the best bagels and spreads!]. only difference is today, i dropped my bro off at the local budget rental car service cause he was going to rent out a truck[aka pickup in the phils] for the day cause he planned to buy bags of cements for some backyard work he was planning to do.
when he pulled up the driveway with a ford f-150 double cab, with only a little under 3k miles on it, we were all oggling. honestly, it was an absolute be-a-u-t! then ideas started flying. at first it was just to drive up to sedona, until finally the destination became las vegas. woohoo, i love road trips! i love driving!
but before we went on our way, i first went to the local best buy and bought a digicam for my sis. i figured vegas would probably be the best place to test it out. i was looking for something inexpensive, but with decent quality, so i settled on the $150 class of digicams. there was a sony cybershot, a kodak, nikon, olympus, canon and an hp. with those heavyweights, you'd think that i'd get one of them. nope, i got a panasonic lumix, also in the same class as the others. specifically, its the Panasonic DMC-LS70.
it was a tough choice, all of them had pretty much the same specs. all of them were in the 6-7MP range. what won me over was it had the highest ISO setting at ISO 1250 and it had the most decent picture quality when i tried shooting while moving sideways. ISO is basically the light sensitivity of the camera. the higher it is, the more light sensitive the camera is. the more sensitive it is, the lesser number of times the flash will go off and therefore be able to capture more real ambient lighting.
to be honest, i wasn't expecting much from it. but after the vegas trip, i was all WOW! amazing digicam! the blurs while taking photos from a moving car are forgivable. and night shots are decent, and in vegas, that's saying a lot! vegas poses a difficult challenge for digicams in that its got a lot of lights. its like trying to take a picture of fireworks. if you leave the flash on, the fireworks will be really small. without the flash, everything is a blur. same with vegas, with the flash, all you can see are tiny lights. without it, you're going to have a mess of lights. but this camera performed well for a digicam. with the flash on, the lights just seemed a little darker. without the flash, there was a little blurring, but nothing a steady hand could fix.
oh, did i mention that i didn't change batteries the entire trip? i did snap 227 pictures, 3/4 of them were 7MP and the other quarter in 3MP. amazing battery life.
overall, i'd give this digicam a perfect 5. that's how good it is.
so, for some pictures from the digicam and the continuation of my story on our vegas trip, head on over to my multiply site[ugh! nooooo!]. i'm sorry, i didn't want to put it there but its just a lot easier to upload pics there, not to mention a lot safer from magically disappearing...
Click here to go to my multiply site!
it started out like any saturday in our house. that menas i get up, brew a pot of coffee, drive out and get a baker's dozen of einstein bro's bagels[they have the best bagels and spreads!]. only difference is today, i dropped my bro off at the local budget rental car service cause he was going to rent out a truck[aka pickup in the phils] for the day cause he planned to buy bags of cements for some backyard work he was planning to do.
when he pulled up the driveway with a ford f-150 double cab, with only a little under 3k miles on it, we were all oggling. honestly, it was an absolute be-a-u-t! then ideas started flying. at first it was just to drive up to sedona, until finally the destination became las vegas. woohoo, i love road trips! i love driving!
but before we went on our way, i first went to the local best buy and bought a digicam for my sis. i figured vegas would probably be the best place to test it out. i was looking for something inexpensive, but with decent quality, so i settled on the $150 class of digicams. there was a sony cybershot, a kodak, nikon, olympus, canon and an hp. with those heavyweights, you'd think that i'd get one of them. nope, i got a panasonic lumix, also in the same class as the others. specifically, its the Panasonic DMC-LS70.
it was a tough choice, all of them had pretty much the same specs. all of them were in the 6-7MP range. what won me over was it had the highest ISO setting at ISO 1250 and it had the most decent picture quality when i tried shooting while moving sideways. ISO is basically the light sensitivity of the camera. the higher it is, the more light sensitive the camera is. the more sensitive it is, the lesser number of times the flash will go off and therefore be able to capture more real ambient lighting.
to be honest, i wasn't expecting much from it. but after the vegas trip, i was all WOW! amazing digicam! the blurs while taking photos from a moving car are forgivable. and night shots are decent, and in vegas, that's saying a lot! vegas poses a difficult challenge for digicams in that its got a lot of lights. its like trying to take a picture of fireworks. if you leave the flash on, the fireworks will be really small. without the flash, everything is a blur. same with vegas, with the flash, all you can see are tiny lights. without it, you're going to have a mess of lights. but this camera performed well for a digicam. with the flash on, the lights just seemed a little darker. without the flash, there was a little blurring, but nothing a steady hand could fix.
oh, did i mention that i didn't change batteries the entire trip? i did snap 227 pictures, 3/4 of them were 7MP and the other quarter in 3MP. amazing battery life.
overall, i'd give this digicam a perfect 5. that's how good it is.
so, for some pictures from the digicam and the continuation of my story on our vegas trip, head on over to my multiply site[ugh! nooooo!]. i'm sorry, i didn't want to put it there but its just a lot easier to upload pics there, not to mention a lot safer from magically disappearing...
Click here to go to my multiply site!
4 comments:
a weekend? 200+ shots? a 7Mp camera?! no battery change?!
are you for real?! :)
nice pix though! =P sana sa New York mo naman next na gamitin yan! punta tayo sa Times Square. tapos, punta din tayo sa Atlantic City, NJ.. mag-casino tayo! haha!
hehe, basta pwede maki-bunk in! haha
...and yes, i'm for real. and to think, the battery that i used was the one that came with it... you know, those unknown brands with wierd names...
...and no, i probably won't be able to use it again since its already packed and pinas-bound na... probably get a different one nalang... =D
waw, ayos nga yung pics... how much kaya in peso?
7.5k, converted from usd..
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