gooner_47
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Registered: 20th Jul 04
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So I'll be going over to Australia for the year sometime in 2012, and I wanted to get some decent snaps to remember my time there. I had originally been thinking of a DSLR but then found out about bridge cameras - pretty much ideal for what I want it for, far more capable than a compact, but smaller and no hassle of changing lenses that you'd get with a DSLR - ideal for travelling.
I went for the SX30 mainly for the zoom, it's incredible  check out this vid I took while on holiday with the family - obviously gets grainy as it gets into digital zoom (where it briefly pauses is where the optical zoom ends), but still pretty amazing imo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFLicqzokVE
Anyway, only just got the camera and have only read halfway through the manual, and a couple of tutorials online... was playing around with it constantly while on holiday and got a few shots I liked - constructive criticism\tips on these? (worth mentioning these were all in auto mode or special 'scene' modes like 'beach', 'landscape' etc - apart from a few using aperture priority, haven't got to playing around in manual mode yet!):
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neoquip
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not bad at all 
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noshua
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Originally posted by neoquip
not bad at all
That optical zoom is amazing, proper stalkerish 
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AndyKent
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Registered: 3rd Sep 05
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Who are the people, all randoms or do you know them?
Theres a brilliant thread on talk photography of street photography just taking pictures of strangers - I'm not sure if I'd have the confidence to just walk up to someone and ask to take their picture!
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gooner_47
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Registered: 20th Jul 04
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the people are family, i'd feel weird going up to strangers asking to take their pic too! although, with the zoom on this thing - you can get proper stalkerish with it ;o)
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Marc
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Registered: 11th Aug 02
Location: York
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That is one hell of a zoom!
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Skylined
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Registered: 27th Sep 05
Location: Sideways, Surrey
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I was contemplating on getting an 1100 DSLR but might change my mind now.
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