*Official* Post Your Pictures Thread

Here are a few new ones.

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I plan on getting the same camera vista has. Then I can do good zooming, and get close ups.

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^This is what I mean, I wanted to zoom up to the chipmunk, but look at how blurry it is.^

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Dragunov IV 424 said:
^This is what I mean, I wanted to zoom up to the chipmunk, but look at how blurry it is.^
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That's because you used digital zoom. When you buy a point&shoot camera and you're looking for zoom, you want as much Optical Zoom as you can. Most cameras have a shit ton of digital zoom, which all it does is crop closer on the same amount of pixels, so all you get is "pixelation" and blurriness. On the other hand, optical zoom actually, mechanically moves the lens and brings the picture closer without losing any quality.

Most P&S cameras will let you deactivate digital zoom, this will leave you just with Optical zoom which is what you want so that you don't run into these problems.
 
Yeah you want to use the optical zoom Dragunov. Disable digital zoom, it just make your pictures look horrible and grainy. I have 30x optical zoom on my FinePix S4000, that's way may than enough. Most PnS cameras such as yours have around 2-8x optical zoom.
 
vistakid10 said:
Yeah you want to use the optical zoom Dragunov. Disable digital zoom, it just make your pictures look horrible and grainy. I have 30x optical zoom on my FinePix S4000, that's way may than enough. Most PnS cameras such as yours have around 2-8x optical zoom.
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Yes I know, but if I would have used regular zoom, then you wouldn't even be able to see the darn thing.
 
I think I have like 8x optical, and it still makes it blurry. But that is my lack of knowledge. Got some pics now, did not want to put it in the recent purchases. Its a replacement to the YTR4320ST that I had, if you all remember.
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When the tech started pulling it apart it was too badly corroded to repair. The 3rd and 1st valve slides were rusted so badly that they were literally welded together. I will get pics in a few weeks to show the attempted repair. Need my case back for my All Star anyway.
anyway, to the point. Got a cheapo YTR2320 to replace it. Plays okay, on par with my Director, but the valves are slow. Need to take it apart and clean it real well, as well as replace the valve springs with a little higher quality units. Pics are bad quality, and as shown, the bell is warped, but not by much.
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this one did not come out as intended. The can topper there is under the rim of the bell with a small clearance showing the warpage.
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So totally as of now, my collection is the same size. Got one more coming in when USPS decides to get off their arse and update tracking.
 
Dragunov IV 424 said:
Yes I know, but if I would have used regular zoom, then you wouldn't even be able to see the darn thing.
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That's one of the downsides of a point and shoot camera I'm afraid, you usually don't have much zoom. A bridge camera or a superzoom like mine would help you out greatly. I'm actually really impressed by the 30x zoom on my S4000, when taking photos at 30x zoom it's usually very clear and in focus - some great image stabilisation going on there. :good:

Quite like your second photo btw Dragunov. Did you see the ones I took last night? :)

Wolfe, I've gotta find my Dad's alto sax and get some nice shots of it. :D
 
I look forward to seeing that. I have been a band geek a lot longer than I have been into computers. I love playing. Can control the emotion of the room based on what you play. And nothing beats playing Charge when the football team is taking the kickoff.
 
Dad is learning the sax. I just wish I could play it but I just don't have the time to learn how what with cadets and school and so on. I think music is one of things you need to start learning when you're very young. When did you start playing Wolfe?

I will see if I can get some nice shots of it tonight after dinner. :)
 
I started playing the fiddle back when I was in early elementary school. Maybe 6 or 7. In middle school, as far as in school playing, I started on Tuba, and went to Alto, Trombone, keyboard percussion and violin for 3 songs in the 8th grade summer concert. I did not pick up trumpet full time till I came down here, so 10th grade. Took me very little time to get it going at all. Been collecting since I got the director back in 6 or 7th grade.
 
Yeah you see you started playing your first instrument at a pretty young age. Dad started playing the sax at 40 and he's not there yet. He hardly ever plays it because he just doesn't have the time, he has a business and a house to run after all. :/
 
that I did. Would not say I am real good at it. Certainly no celtic woman wannabe or Charlie Daniels. That is why I started. Now I play trumpet to entertain and express the banned emotions (I choose to ban them). It is neat, but my horn is in tune when I am happy or angry, and slightly flat when sad. Never fails.
 
vistakid10 said:
That's one of the downsides of a point and shoot camera I'm afraid, you usually don't have much zoom. A bridge camera or a superzoom like mine would help you out greatly. I'm actually really impressed by the 30x zoom on my S4000, when taking photos at 30x zoom it's usually very clear and in focus - some great image stabilisation going on there. :good:

Quite like your second photo btw Dragunov. Did you see the ones I took last night? :)

Wolfe, I've gotta find my Dad's alto sax and get some nice shots of it. :D
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Thanks. I was gonna try to get the one you have, but instead I will be buying my dads awesome Nikon coolpix L120, with X21 zoom, and 14.1 megapixels.
 
Dragunov IV 424 said:
Thanks. I was gonna try to get the one you have, but instead I will be buying my dads awesome Nikon coolpix L120, with X21 zoom, and 14.1 megapixels.
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Yeah when I was looking for a new camera, the L120 was one of the cameras which I was looking at. The S4000 got given to me as a gift anyway for Christmas.
 
OK Wolfe, here are a few shots of my Dad's Alto Sax. Sorry the photos aren't the greatest, the light in the room was pretty poor.

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wolfeking said:
looks like a good one. Same maker as the new trumpet i posted. What size reed does he use?
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Yeah it's nice. :) It was free too so even better! :D He signed up to this place where you can rent these saxophones but if you like it you can keep it (I don't know how they get the money to keep buying in lots of saxes and giving them away but hey) and he's had it since about December 2009 I think.

I honestly don't know what size reed he uses. I'll ask him and find out for you tomorrow. :) Off to bed now.
 
got the All Star today. Needs work definitely. The Valve springs were bent, and the corks were gone. Main Tuning Slide is stuck too. Taking it to the shop next week to get the slide removed and chem cleaned so should be better. Plays well to be in as bad of shape as it is.

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All together, I would say not bad for a 90 year old horn.

edit, and false advertisement. Serial number decode for 66838 shows as 1901 so its 111 years old. :eek:
 
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What camera do you use Photon? And your setup is very similar to the one I had prior to the one I have now. I had an i5 760, Crucial M4 128GB, ASUS P7P55D-E, 8GB generic DDR3 1333MHz and an EVGA GTS 450 SC before I got what is in my sig. :) Very similar to yours.
 
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