On the Road Again!

Hurrah it's vacation time. Time to put the little pocket Sony Cybershot away in the drawer and get the battery charged for the D50.  Plus of course get all the pix I may want to keep off the 2gb SD card. Then format the SD card. I use Picasa3, discontinued by Google but still a good way to get photos off the cameras onto the laptop. Nikon D50 The camera is setup to do bracketing. I couldn't remember how to turn it off and had to Google!  It is actually an item in one of the menus.   The nearest I could get to the D50 was this little item. The D50 menu isn't that extensive though. The battery charger is a "quick charger" but even so it takes about three hours to charge a half empty battery. For a camera that was made almost 15 years ago is works well. Has no discernable problems and I don't mind taking it out in the rain.

I tried to see if the old D50 did bracketing as well as the Canon 1100D. It has the option in the menu and unlike the Canon it retains the setting when switching off and back on again. I tried it out on a walk today. It does take three pictures. This is an example how they came out and in the order above. It's subjective which is better I guess.  The last one that is the + image, looks the warmest.

I was reading Adventure Bike Rider and one of the expert sections had a photography masterclass from Simon and Lisa Thomas - www.2ridetheworld.com / I had seen that in the menu on my Canon but had no idea what it was. I have tried it. It says that it takes three pictures. It did for a couple of tests and then it seemed to only take one. The setting gets turned off when the camera is switched off and needs resetting every time you turn it on. I opted for a range of +1 to -1.  Checking the EXIF information for this picture of Reggie shows that the best one was "Exposure Bias - +1 EV" The decision is still left to the viewer. I'll give it a go next time I get the camera out and see what it does.