I’ve got six megapickles and I’m not afraid to use them!

[TwoWheeler]

Found an old PowerShot SD 630 at work and have been playing with it.

First impression: “Holy hell, this thing is slow!” I tried to take a picture of my dog and pressed the shutter. By the time it fired, she’d walked out of frame! Then the camera has to chew on the image for a solid minute or two, before it’s ready to take another shot. “Point and shoot? More like point and wait!”. Frame rate is probably in the range of .002 FPS.

I have been surprised by how sharp the images are (for what they are), but cropping is just not an option, unless you want postage stamp-sized images. I’ve been spoiled by 45 MP…. Maybe it will teach me to get it right in camera…. nah, who am I kidding?

Also, having only JPG as an output has kind of curtailed the amount of editing I can do, too.

Still, it is possible to get useable images:

• Join to view EXIF data.

I’m going to keep playing with it, but it’s not going to replace my R5 anytime soon and it doesn’t change my POV that all the retro-kiddies who are rediscovering P&S cameras are fooling themselves.

 

[Chris Summers]

I still have my first digital camera, the Sony Mavica that used a 3.5" floppy disc for storage. Takes interesting images but only at 640 x 480 which is roughly 1/3 megapixel

 

[TwoWheeler]

I still have my first digital camera, the Sony Mavica that used a 3.5" floppy disc for storage. Takes interesting images but only at 640 x 480 which is roughly 1/3 megapixel

Cool, I remember those!

I’m a minimalist and don’t keep anything I’m not using, so my Yashica FX-3 film camera, my Olympus Camedia 720, Sony A200 and Fujifilm XT-30 are long gone…and I don’t miss any of them.

This point and wait will probably end up back where I found it after I get bored with it.

 

[BasilFawlty]

It sounds a lot like my first digital SLR, the first generation Canon Rebel, which I still have. It too was 6 MP (Well, 6.3). We have come a long way baby!

 

[TwoWheeler]

It sounds a lot like my first digital SLR, the first generation Canon Rebel, which I still have. It too was 6 MP (Well, 6.3). We have come a long way baby!

I ran an image or two through Topaz and got a surprisingly usable photo. I wouldn’t want to have to go through those shenanigans with every shot, though!

I took the camera back to work and put it back on the shelf where I found it.