{"id":1748,"date":"2010-10-14T00:10:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T23:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1748"},"modified":"2013-11-10T12:06:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T12:06:45","slug":"new-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/new-toy\/","title":{"rendered":"New Toy"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Just a very quick post tonight. I've been playing with a new camera. Nothing fancy, but I needed something a little more portable than the 40D + lenses. Having looked at several I've gone for the Panasonic FZ45. It has a substantial zoom, adequate video, shoots in raw and jpg. The quality won't match the DSLR but hopefully will be adequate for web-posting. One immediate problem was that the software for converting raw images wouldn't load (a problem with the disc… I tried it on three CD\/DVD drives and none of them would read it). A web search eventually found a current version of Adobe's DNG converter that does the trick.<\/p>\n

I've not really had time to test the camera out (too busy watching the amazing rescue in Chile :up: ) so will give it a workout tomorrow. For now, just one sample shot taken this evening.
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Camera note: photo taken with the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ45.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1009,1],"tags":[127,1132],"class_list":["post-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiders-2","category-uncategorized","tag-camera","tag-spider","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t