November 25, 2006

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    I got a Canon Powershot S3 IS for my birthday.  My mom got it for me.  I was pretty shocked.  It was an expensive birthday present.  The camera is pretty damn sweet.  This is the supermacro mode.
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    It's hard to learn to focus it -- it's got a lot more manual controls than my Z3.  It also shoots at higher resolution. It's a 6 megapixel and the Z3 is a 5.  I don't have the money for a Digital Rebel, so I am not going to have any 8 megapixel shots for a while.

    The Z3 can shoot 11 megabyte pictures while the Canon Powershot S3 IS shoots 17 megabyte pictures.  Jin and Sara took a zillion pictures with my camera over the last two days.  I took pictures of the moon and a mouse ball (sounds terrible, I know -- mooning and mouse balls).

    Here is the Z3 in supermacro mode.  It is a lot easier to focus than the Canon -- but that could just be because I am used to it.

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    Anyway, the lighting was different -- these two shots were taken months apart.  But anyway, the Canon S3 is pretty sweet. I'll have to see what it can do.