Wednesday, 17 July 2013

The Camera Never Lies.....

.... or does it?
Last year my lovely family gave me a new Canon point-and-shoot camera for my birthday. A bit more complicated than my previous ancient Nikon. There's a printed user guide with the camera to describe basic functions... turning it on and off, using the flash etc, but anything more complicated was on the accompanying disk.
I wish they wouldn't do that!

So I decided it was time to investigate what this little camera is capable of.... and I had a lot of fun pressing buttons and finding out.

Top picture is a bright orange gerbera daisy that flourishes in a flowerpot on my back deck.
I discovered that I can change the colour to whatever I fancy by some simple actions.... blue, yellow, pink.... all the same flower!


So the camera does lie, after all! Or is it magic???

13 comments:

  1. Great fun! Does it work on faces?

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  2. That looks like great entertainment! I like that they are including these types of options in new cameras.

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  3. HAHAHA! I love it, Sham. Actually, I've just bought a new Canon point-n-shoot which I'll pick up in Atlanta come October. Out of curiosity, which one did your family give you??? My bazooka lens is really aggravating all my wrong nerves, so I have to do something different for traveling. I'll be eager, like you, to see how it works! Congratulations.

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  4. LOL...Well,it's not the Camera that lies, it's the person taking the picture, if you choose to change the color...! I can see how that might be fun, though I am a purist, at heart.

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  5. I figure that a camera always lies in the sense that it never depicts exactly what you saw although it can come close sometimes. For example, I would be surprised if the colour of the original is exactly the same as the real thing.

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  6. How exciting it is! It always needs a lot of time to learn a new one. But you did!
    Tomoko

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  7. you have photoshop in your camera!

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  8. My camera has so many do-hickies on it that I never (don't know how to use) use.
    I think the directions are so complicated to read and figure out. I seem to loose patience before I accomplish anything.
    All that being said...good for you. Love the changing color flower.
    Keep on experimenting. It's fun.

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  9. This is really interesting! I should get me one of these fancy cameras.

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  10. Fun stuff, Shammie. Of course the camera lies.. that's what makes photography an art. ;)

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  11. definitely magic. Gotta get me one of those camera's. LOL

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