I have a new old toy now. A little Canon A70 camera that I picked up off eBay. I had thought for a little while I had totally messed up the focus by wiping something off the lense, but I think it's just really finicky about being held still since sometimes the pictures are clear and sometimes they aren't. Closeups never are, so I think I was trying to get the picture from too close. More testing needed to figure that out. I need to get a Macro lense for it.
I can't believe it that the dang lenses for this camera are twice to three times and up what I paid for the camera. =-o I paid average prices at eBay for it too, but the lenses are just out of sight on their prices.
There is one lens on the market that has a magnetic deal to hold it on the camera. I'm wondering if that is what happened to the A75 I got at the same time. It has a funky problem with its pictures where everything is scrambled and purplish looking.
I had bought the little A70 for use with stop motion stuff, but I can't get it to talk to my computer directly so it's not working for that yet. Grrrrrr Need to figure out why it won't connect to the computer. I can get pictures off with the memory card, so the camera works as long as I can sort out problem with the focus on it. I'll be happy if I can just use it as a really good camera, can do stop motion manually rather than using the onion skin in the computer.
I do need to get me a power adapter for it though. Should go check on them things over at eBay next. Rechargeable batteries would be nice too.
0 comments:
Post a Comment