TZ-5 -- No-brainer style

Hi,

I've been a fan of this forum for the last year-plus. I'm a noob photographer, so I decided to see what I could get using "auto everything." The following pics are from a TZ-5, latest firmware, on "iA" mode and wrung through PSE for cropping and auto levels/contrast/color. In short, all decisions here, but for the crop, were made by intelligence not my own. Each has a focal length of 280. All critcisms welcome, of course.

Dragonfly (species escapes me) at Lake Quivira, KS.



Butterfly (black swallowtail, perhaps?) from my backyard in Fairway, KS.

Well......auto everything worked out quite nicely!

sworthy said:

Hi,

I've been a fan of this forum for the last year-plus. I'm a noob
photographer, so I decided to see what I could get using "auto
everything." The following pics are from a TZ-5, latest firmware, on
"iA" mode and wrung through PSE for cropping and auto
levels/contrast/color. In short, all decisions here, but for the
crop, were made by intelligence not my own. Each has a focal length
of 280. All critcisms welcome, of course.

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I must take issue with a portion of what you say regarding "intelligence not my own" - it was your intelligence which brought you to the decision to buy the TZ5 - that was brilliance, indeed. The pictures are also strong evidence of your intelligence and good taste in deciding they were good enought to share. Thanks for that.
--
JimW203

They are pictures, not pixels; taking them can be fun - try it sometime.

Nice shots! Close-up (or dare I call it "macro") photography is one of the many pleasant surprises with my TZ5. For whatever reason (28mm lens? 2in min distance?), they just look nicer with the TZ5. So much so that I've stopped pulling out my EOS 10D with Sigma 18-50 macro zoom each time I see an interesting flower (or insect).

--Carl

Centauri27 said:

Nice shots! Close-up (or dare I call it "macro") photography is one
of the many pleasant surprises with my TZ5. For whatever reason (28mm
lens? 2in min distance?), they just look nicer with the TZ5. So
much so that I've stopped pulling out my EOS 10D with Sigma 18-50
macro zoom each time I see an interesting flower (or insect).

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It may be the fact that digicams have a much greater DOF, which is very handy for macros. I had neglected this fact when I got a 100mm f/2.0 macro lens to go with my 5D, and was disappointed by how shallow the DOF field was. With this lens, you have to stop down quite a bit (f/16 or f/22) to get the kind of DOF that comes easily with small digicams--and that means you can't just handhold the camera, you must put it on a tripod, which is a pain. Yes, the ultimate quality is better, but it's a lot more work.

Bob

Mmmm...that's 100 mm f/2.8 macro, not f/2.0. Canon makes a 100 f/2.0, but it's not a macro lens.

Bob