The compact camera picture thread!

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Panasonic LF1 which I sadly gave away and Medion compact and Canon Ixus which I still have.

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Medion pictures.

Whitby.

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Somewhere in Scotland.

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Industrial accident, Canon Ixus.

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I printed that first Scotland picture out filling an A4 sheet but then just filed it away and forgot about it. Years later I found it when looking for something else and was pleased at how nice it looks, as long as I don't look at it through a magnifying glass.

Anyone care to post some nice compact camera pictures?
 
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I had an LX2 and then an LX5.

I found these cameras to be too slow to capture anything moving so I used to prefocus/hyperfocal. This was taken with the LX2.

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I can't remember why I framed it like that, I can only assume there was something blocking the view to the right, maybe someone was stood there. So, I cropped it 1:1.

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LX5.

My then GF on a ski lift thingy.

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The view from the balcony with the sun in the frame.

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One last one. Somewhere in Kazakhstan.

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The wall of ice on the right hand side was created by a burst pipe.
 
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@woof woof Hey Alan., great idea for an equipment thread I shall contribute as often as possible. (y)
 
Medion Seaside fun.

Redcar.

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Saltburn.

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Whitby.

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York.

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I'm not a fan of cameras without a VF but one thing about this Medion is it's truly tiny, just credit card sized and it's thin too and it really can go in a pocket with your money and credit cards. It has a nice metal body too. The colours can be a bit off sometimes, I suppose it's not great at always getting the WB right, but opening the jpegs up as raws lets me process the problem ones in CS5 using the tools I like in the raw converter.

Looking at the pictures and what is possible I'm tempted to start carrying it again :D
 
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I've always had a camera since being a small boy, my dad always told me that photos of things you have done and places you have been are very important to jogging memories. So I have thousand of images that mean a lot to me 90% of them from digital or film compacts so I could post here endlessly. Here are a few anyway.

A photo of what was a new truck to me. I had just dropped 28 tonne of steel off in Keighley a job we did twice a week. The trick was to take half the pallets back on the first job and the other half on the second. The second job was done on a Friday and if you were empty you would end up doing multiple pick ups for Ireland on the way back to the Midlands and end up finishing at 8 or 9 pm
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A Jack Russell pup I bred I've always had dogs from being a small boy, But have bred German Shepherds ,Jack Russels and more recently Working Cocker Spaniels
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Again recording as a memory, A story my lad wrote

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I inherited a load of cameras from my father which were just put away in a cupboard ( mainly film) After doing Whitby Goth festival and having 1000's of photos taken of me and my wife it inspired me to have a go with his cameras. This camera was left behind as it was only 2MP ( Kodak easy share). I then more recently dug it out and was really surprised. (Then my grandson killed it !)

A picnic at Trimpley
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Defenders of the realm, at a Rock house at Enville
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On a dog walk on Highgate common
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I remember an early digital compact at work that took AA's or AAA's, I can't remember but I do remember that they only lasted a few minutes. It was kept in the purchasing dept in the same cupboard as the batteries. When I needed it I'd fit new batteries and rush off to take a few pictures and more than once the batteries went before I finished.

Does anyone else remember or have a compact that bad on batteries?

I gave up and as above with industrial accident I took my own Ixus to work to use.
 
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woof woof said:
I remember an early digital compact at work that took AA's or AAA's, I can't remember but I do remember that they only lasted a few minutes. It was kept in the purchasing dept in the same cupboard as the batteries. When I needed it I'd fit new batteries and rush off to take a few pictures and more than once the batteries went before I finished.

Does anyone else remember or have a compact that bad on batteries?

I gave up and as above with industrial accident I took my own Ixus to work to use.
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Canon PowerShot A300
Canon PowerShot A80

Had both - those AA batteries :rolleyes:
 
This post is all on a Pentax Optio 550

Puerto Banus

This was the first holiday I got this camera and was messing around with DOF. (IT wasn't Jamaica, the cards were from there).


Puerto Banus 2003 by Kell Lunam-Cowan, on Flickr

New York 2003


NYC. 2003 by Kell Lunam-Cowan, on Flickr


NYC 2003 by Kell Lunam-Cowan, on Flickr

We then took a road trip down through California in 2004 - still one of my favourite ever holidays:

San Francisco 2004


San Francisco 2004 by Kell Lunam-Cowan, on Flickr

Yosemite 2004


Half Dome, Yosemite 2004 by Kell Lunam-Cowan, on Flickr


Yosemite 2004 by Kell Lunam-Cowan, on Flickr


Yosemite 2004 by Kell Lunam-Cowan, on Flickr


Valley of Ice, Yosemite 2004 by Kell Lunam-Cowan, on Flickr
 
Pentax Optio 550

This one of my daughter I actually got printed out at A2 (from a 5MP camera) as one of the picture places was doing an intro deal for £5. It held up really well with very little pixellation.

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what classifies as a compact camera? is RX1 a compact camera? how about the X100 series or RX100 series?
 
I think the original idea was compact as in small and cheap but I think people have happily expanded that to small and cheap now.

At one time my Medion could be bought new for £10 from the Medion shop :D Mine was a present.
 
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I think the original idea was compact as in small and cheap but I think people have happily expanded that to small and cheap now.

At one time my Medion could be bought new for £10 from the Medion shop :D Mine was a present.
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I just thought Compact meant small and fixed lens...
 
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I think the original idea was compact as in small and cheap but I think people have happily expanded that to small and cheap now.

At one time my Medion could be bought new for £10 from the Medion shop :D Mine was a present.
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If only I'd remembered that they were called Point and Shoots.
 
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If only I'd remembered that they were called Point and Shoots.
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I started with a Kodak Instamatic 36 which had a 43mm f11 fixed focus lens and I think two speed settings 1/40 and 1/80. I recently bought a Panasonic GM5 and 20mm f1.7 as that gives me a small camera with a 40mm equivalent lens. The camera had an issue and is currently away for repair but I'm hoping it returns fixed and useable.
 
The Didcot cooling towers in use, taken from a train with a Panasonic TZ4...

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After the TZ4 came the TZ40...

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And now a TZ70...

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I started with a Kodak Instamatic 36 which had a 43mm f11 fixed focus lens and I think two speed settings 1/40 and 1/80. I recently bought a Panasonic GM5 and 20mm f1.7 as that gives me a small camera with a 40mm equivalent lens. The camera had an issue and is currently away for repair but I'm hoping it returns fixed and useable.
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I remember my interest in photography being rekindled when Panasonic released the GF1. I'd lost interest in lugging a Nikon D80 around and the compact format (and 20mm f/1.7) really appealed. The only downside was it was pretty unusable above ISO 400. Ended up getting a GX1 which was a little better then finally jumped ship and bought an Olympus E-P5. I found myself carrying around a body and four lenses and the format lost what made me interested in it in the first place.

That's why I think there's a place for a small point-and-shoot. Small, convenient and affordable. I know a majority would say that smartphones have superseded P&S cameras but for me, the experience isn't the same. The photos here are testament to their usefulness. I'd be happier in a dubious backstreet on holiday with a P&S than with an expensive smartphone.
 
I had a GF1 with 20mm f1.7 but decided I didn't like back screen shooting so changed to a G1 which convinced me that mirrorless was the future as I compared it to my FF Canon 5D and thought it matched the 5D or at least got close enough to it. I used my GF1 and G1 at any ISO up to the max which I think was ISO 1,600 for the GF1 whilst the G1 I think had an extended ISO to 3,200. I was happy enough with 1,600 and even 3,200 was useable with care. I've just bought another 20mm f1.7, it is slow to focus but it is compact. I have an Olympus 17mm f1.8 which I think is a better lens and much faster to focus, it's bigger though.
 
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