December 23, 2007
So there should be no gap in our ablity to record our trip in pictures, generous parents stepped in and allowed us to replace our broken camera, a model which is no longer manufactured, with a Canon Powershot Pro S5 IS.
For the last couple of days, I've been having fun playing with some of the new features. Of course, a post about a new camera would be incomplete without pictures. So, using a feature aptly named super-macro, I photographed the face on a RM50 (in the Malay currency, a 50 bill; about $15) by placing it 0cm from the lens. No, that's not a typo, the bill is zero centimeters from the lens! (This only works because the face is transparent enough to be properly backlit with a lamp.)
But, I'm really pleased with the optics. Today on our way Islamic Arts Museum in KL, I shot this:
Tonight, we fly to Australia, and I'm sure there'll be more posts to come with pictures and also some S5 feature demonstrations.
