had to use a Point N' Shoot today.

[ACDCROCKS]

Today at school, they wanted to take a few pics of the kids in hats ( It's hat day in High schooL :rolleyes: )Any they said "here" I said how do you use this? They said "you should know, your the photographer"lol. Anyway. I pressed the shutter realease and it wouln't take a pic, so I waited a couple seconds and it finaly took a pic. I was using it like I use the 20D for work i.e. left hand under lens, I loooked like a fool.lol...Anyway....

[cosworth]

I had a similar experience last week at work. It felt alien to me. At least it was a Canon S2 with some flexibility.

[ACDCROCKS]

I had a similar experience last week at work. It felt alien to me. At least it was a Canon S2 with some flexibility.
I think the one I used was a NOINK, If so it proved it's quality;)

[SeanH]

They said "you should know, your the photographer"l

That's when you hand it back and say.... "Yea, your right".

[elTwitcho]

I had a chance to use a Canon A75 the other day and had alot of fun playing with it. Mind you, I wasn't a camera snob worried about dirtying his hands on a camera that obviously would not have the same performance as my DSLR, nor was I expecting it to perform to the same level before condemning it as a piece of crap when it wouldn't. So hey, my view might be a little skewed and all, but they pack some neat features into those P&S cameras nowadays.

Of course, it also helps to know how the autofocus works and that a half press focusses the camera and a full press will usually incur delay of having to focus in most instances, but who needs to know those kinds of things anyway :rolleyes:

[ACDCROCKS]

When I first had it in my hands, It fell so much less stressfull and RELIEF,and simpler, only pressing the Shutter button, one hand needs to be used,wow, I better get the 20d before I go back to P&S
;)

[Citizensmith]

All I get to use at work is an S70. Sure its slow but given a little effort you can get plenty of good photos out of it. There is no way my company would buy a DSLR and I'm not using mine for them as they wouldn't cover me if anything happened to it. Basically if its as good as you can get your hands on it just accept the limitations and go with it. :)

[ACDCROCKS]

All I get to use at work is an S70. Sure its slow but given a little effort you can get plenty of good photos out of it. There is no way my company would buy a DSLR and I'm not using mine for them as they wouldn't cover me if anything happened to it. Basically if its as good as you can get your hands on it just accept the limitations and go with it. :)
Dosen't it feel less stressfull to shoot with a P&S ? I think it is.

[Sam]

I think the one I used was a NOINK, If so it proved it's quality;)

I have a nikon coolpix 4500 P&S. It takes good pictures, but the shutter lag is as bad as any other P&S camera. We took it to Maui and have a ton of great memories. I'd chalk your experience up to switching to a P&S camera from a 20d rather than the make.

[Moppie]

Dosen't it feel less stressfull to shoot with a P&S ? I think it is.


Depends what your shooting!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/Moppie/IMG_0419retouched.jpg

[MattyB]

when i was doing a wedding not long ago, a couple handed me a old film point and shoot (the size of a brick) and asked if i could take a photo of them, ofcourse is said :D

i forgot to slide the flap off the lens, and didn't know how to turn it on...
not sure if that photo will come out :S

[Ronald S. Jr.]

I was impressed by the little coolpix that I saw in circuit city today that had wifi built-in! I was like "whoaaaa dude!" I guess it transfers shots wirelessly to your computer and saves them. From any wireless network, too. Kind of a nice way to have "portable storage". If it weren't a N****, I would have bought one right then!

[ACDCROCKS]

I had to use the p&S today again, The kid from yearbook "Here, I'm suppose to give you this" right there in lunch talking to my friends, 'I was put on the spot. I figured out that I Make $1.00 an hour ( A yearbook cost $60.00, If I work 60 hours, I get a free yearbook (sounds like a good deal when Oh when I was a Freshmen), this is the 3rd year doing thing, So far if I was getting paid from work, doing this exact samething, I would have $358.00 some dollars (41 hours so far), eh ohwell, 1 more year, I need that .5 credit...Should be atleast 1.0 I put 25k shutters on my dslr for them...life...I needed a need a new slr any how...now I need to switch Canon ;) :)

[ACDCROCKS]

Oh by the way that duck reminds me of Aflac

[bolantej]

Oh by the way that duck reminds me of Aflac

that is the wackiest thing! i was thinking that exactly.

i carry a canon 510 with me and take a shot once in a while to keep my p&s skills up. :lol:

[transcend]

I saw that duck shot some time ago on here. It is by far one of my favorite pictues of all time.

[ACDCROCKS]

Moppie, ask Aflac if they'll use that on their ads, thats seriously a good pic/ funny looking pic that represents Aflac, thats some good $$$$ go for it.

[dancinkate]

I have a nikon coolpix 4500 P&S. It takes good pictures, but the shutter lag is as bad as any other P&S camera. We took it to Maui and have a ton of great memories..

I have the same camera and I only use it if I'm going somewhere that would ruin my Rebel. It takes decent shots but waiting for the flash to recharge drives me BATTY! :rolleyes:

[Steve Parr]

I've got an Olympus P&S. When I purchased my first digital camera, it was an Olympus. The one I have now is my third. It'll never find its' way into any "serious" shooting situtation, but it's fine for those situtations where I "might" want a camera, but where I wouldn't want to carry my Canon...

Steve

[MTalley]

After owning my Rebel for several months now, I find that most of my P/S shots are of the ground. I push the shutter release, don't hear any noise, tilt the camera down to see if I got the picture and then the shutter snaps, getting a fairly decently exposed picture of my feet, most of the time. I had almost all but forgotten about shutter lag until recently. :D

[DocFrankenstein]

After owning my Rebel for several months now, I find that most of my P/S shots are of the ground. I push the shutter release, don't hear any noise, tilt the camera down to see if I got the picture and then the shutter snaps, getting a fairly decently exposed picture of my feet, most of the time. I had almost all but forgotten about shutter lag until recently. :D
Try shooting with a 1Ds or 1V and the rebel will feel like a point-n-shoot with it's shutter lag.

[ACDCROCKS]

Try shooting with a 1Ds or 1V and the rebel will feel like a point-n-shoot with it's shutter lag.

the 1DS seems like a 20d comparring EOS 1D MARK 2 shutter lag, sounds like an M-16 A2 from the e0s 1D MARK2.:D , beautiful camera, little funky on how to delete a few images, ( little too useto the 20d), but If i had $4,000 I would buy the EOSD 1D Mark 2.

[johnnybfan]

I had to use my wife's p&s the other night - it was more like point and wait! :)

[ACDCROCKS]

I had to use my wife's p&s the other night - it was more like point and wait! :)
It does infact.. I don't like when the flash flashes like 5 times to get rid of red eye or to focus, who ever is gettting photographed certinly dosen't appreciate it " how many pics do you need", That was 1 "oh..." ;)