I went to Kos a Greek Island on holiday. It was meant to be a total break and a beach and sailing holiday. Nevertheless I decided to do a mini project on it and took my Sony D100 with me. FOr two reasons. Firstly I wanted to do a short documentary on what it was like to be o this type of holiday, never having been on one. Secondly I wanted to be discrete in my photo taking. also I have a real concern of destroying camera in a beach environment. Sand, from my experience can be the end of a camera. As it was the Sony did not disappoint and was as discrete as I was able to be. I still got carried away and started running around on the beach poping in an out of boat huts and such and taking images which turned heads - what is he up to? The "bairns" don't like it either. So I was on my best behaviour. It was after all a holiday!!!
I have on return generated a Blurb book. You can see it on blurb.com called KOS 2010. All the images were taken with a small compact camera. Yes it is not remotely as good as the Nikon D700. Nevertheless the best camera you have is the one you with you at the time :-) The camera review websites are continually searching for the super compact. The tiny camera that will replace the big camera!!! The holly grail of cheap but not cheerful - wonderful. Well the Sony Cybershot series has always impressed me. They are tiny cameras. If the light is good then they will give you a perfectly usable image which you can exhibit up to A3 in size. For 99% of people it is what the image tells you that matters. They are not pixel peepers and cannot tell the diference between an image from a compact and a full frame sensor. I still cherish the images from my first cybershot which had a mere 5mp. My current camera has 13mp.
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