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

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:



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.

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

Chris Summers said:

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

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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.