S6500fd owners - share your pixs here

[liionel]

Hi all,

I'm an amateur and want to learn more.

Just got this type of camera yesterday.
What do you like most of this camera? and what do you think of the trenght compare with the similar ones?

Here is my first shot
http://www.friendster.com/photos/7358414/1/795339247

hmm i cant see it. but what i like about this cam? 6.3mp on a 1/1.7" sensor and also great low light photography! i also love the mechanical zoom rings on it. however i did wish it had hardware stabilization and also bulb mode.

but i'm still loving my 6500fd. glad i chose this over other cameras i considered like s5, s3, fz8 and fz50.

 

[jamesoyl]

Hi, nice to know u all..
Here's are some pics taken by S6500fd. Please give some good and bad comment o...thank
http://jamesoyl.multiply.com/

 

[Clockunder]

Hi, nice to know u all..
Here's are some pics taken by S6500fd. Please give some good and bad comment o...thank
http://jamesoyl.multiply.com/

Frankly, cannot judge as the pictures are quite small.

However, from what I see on my monitor, the whites are totally blown out in some of the pictures (birds and flower) and some details among the white feathers/petals are lost.

Last time when I first started, I also had the same problem and didn't notice it until one experienced guy in the forum pointed out it out to me. Thanks to him, I now watch the histogram before a shot (for s6500fd, press the relevant button on top of camera) and also take a look on whether there is any blown out area in the picture during after-shot review on the LCD. Any blown out area is highlighted by blinking.

For children shots, go down to their height level to shoot instead of shooting from your own height downwards which gives an undesirable suppressing look.

Hopes they help.

 

[jamesoyl]

Frankly, cannot judge as the pictures are quite small.

However, from what I see on my monitor, the whites are totally blown out in some of the pictures (birds and flower) and some details among the white feathers/petals are lost.

Last time when I first started, I also had the same problem and didn't notice it until one experienced guy in the forum pointed out it out to me. Thanks to him, I now watch the histogram before a shot (for s6500fd, press the relevant button on top of camera) and also take a look on whether there is any blown out area in the picture during after-shot review on the LCD. Any blown out area is highlighted by blinking.

For children shots, go down to their height level to shoot instead of shooting from your own height downwards which gives an undesirable suppressing look.

Hopes they help.

Yup...Thank you so much

 

[Clockunder]

Yup...Thank you so much

You would know that you have improved if you start finding your old pictures suck even though you felt that they looked quite good soon after they were taken.

That is what has happened to me. I thought the pictures which I took when I first started were quite ok but when I look at them again now, they don't look good and I would be embarrassed to show them now. Hopefully, next year, I will find that the pictures I have taken this year don't look good because I've actually improved.

In fact, I'm starting to worry about my improvement because I don't shoot as often this year and some of the pictures which I took early this year still look ok to me. I'm beginning to reach some bottleneck ........ partly due to a lack of criticism as people tend to do back-patting more than anything and I don't spend much time on photography

Criticism from others is the best way to see beyond our boxed mind.

Another way to improve is to look for nicer looking pictures and try to understand how and why it's done. Also look for bad pictures to think about what is "not right" and what we should have done instead.

 

[RyanRemus]

Hi,

I'm a newbie so pardon me if i sound silly. I had my heart on the S6500fd after reading all the reviews and the comments on this post. I trooped down to the camera shop today armed with my credit card and tried it out for myself.

I'm trying to get a good prosumer that will give a good protrait shoot with blurred background (or bokeh as some say it). In the shop, I've tried to capture a few protrait shots of my son with S6500fd on manual mode and set the apeture to as low as possible to get the blur background (around F2.9) but still don't find the effect as good as my friend's canon 350d. Did i do anything wrong?

Seeing what a friendly batch this post had, can anyone share their S6500fd pic on what i was hoping to achieve? I was hoping that someone out there recommend me a prosumer camera that will be able to take protrait with the sharp focus on the child and out of focus for the background? So far I've tried the Fuji S6500, S8000, Canon S5 but the blurred effect on these models is not enough for me. I really liked the effect on my friend's canon 350d

Thanks folks if you can give any pointers!

 

[liionel]

on fixed lens system's the bokeh will never be as good as those on dslr systems.

 

[JasOps]

Hi all, I'm also newbie to photography and got the S6500fd through the last PCSHOW.
Had brought along this camera during a recent China trip to Guangzhou, Guilin, YangShuo and Longji.

Here's some shots taken, appreciate some comments on how to improve :

1) Guilin/Ronghu -- Day & Night Shots

2) Guilin/LiJiang -- Day Shots only (taken onboard ferry)

 

[JasOps]

3) Guilin/YangShuo -- Day Shots

 

[JasOps]

4) Guilin/YangShuo -- More Day Shots

 

[JasOps]

5) Guilin / Longji -- Day Shots Only ...

 

[JasOps]

6) Guilin / Longji (YaoSai) -- More Day Shots (UpHill Agricultural Sceneries & Yao Village)

 

[JasOps]

7) Guilin / Longji (YaoSai) -- More Day Shots (UpHill Agricultural Sceneries & Yao Village)

Distant shot on Yao lady working on the hilltop

Zoom shot on same Yao lady...

 

[JasOps]

8) Guilin / Longji (YaoSai) -- More Day Shots (UpHill Agricultural Sceneries & Yao Village)

 

[vincecarlo]

Hi all, I'm also newbie to photography and got the S6500fd through the last PCSHOW.
Had brought along this camera during a recent China trip to Guangzhou, Guilin, YangShuo and Longji.

Here's some shots taken, appreciate some comments on how to improve :

1) Guilin/Ronghu -- Day & Night Shots

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:thumbsup:Nice shots, this is beautiful

 

[vincecarlo]

8) Guilin / Longji (YaoSai) -- More Day Shots (UpHill Agricultural Sceneries & Yao Village)

I like this 1 :thumbsup:

 

[jiaklormee]

hi guys,

a pic from my trip to beijing zoo last week....a picture of a turtle snacking.....

C&C(good and bad) are greatly appreciated....thanks!

 

[vincecarlo]

hi guys,

a pic from my trip to beijing zoo last week....a picture of a turtle snacking.....

C&C(good and bad) are greatly appreciated....thanks!

Pix looks a little soft

It'll look better if taken from a slightly higher angle to show more of the eating action and closer crop to omit the bottom (distracting, can't make out what it is)

 

[Clockunder]

Hi all, I'm also newbie to photography and got the S6500fd through the last PCSHOW.
Had brought along this camera during a recent China trip to Guangzhou, Guilin, YangShuo and Longji.

Here's some shots taken, appreciate some comments on how to improve :

Thanks for sharing them here. Very nice scenary there. I had been there in 1991 but didn't really take pictures. I just walked around and visited there for a day or two.

A nice use of shallow Depth of Field in the flower pictures as the sharp-in-focus flowers in the foreground stands out vividly against an out-of-focus background.

I think for landscape, it's extremely important to take the pictures at the right time of the day from the right direction because the sun is the main light source which has a major impact on how the scene will appear on the picture.

Best time is usually in the late afternoon when the Sun is shinning from a low angle and less harsh, giving more depth and volume due to a greater tonal range between dark shadows and bright highlights shown in pictures.

By the way, there is a loss of resolution probably due to how you compress or how your picture hosting website has compressed the photos or picture sharpening used. For example, the wire lines in mid air in the picture below is now distorted. The pictures seems a bit too over-sharpened on my LCD .....(less so if on CRT).

 

[Clockunder]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v668/jasops01/ChinaTrip/DSCF3107.jpg[/mg]
I like this 1 :thumbsup:[/quote]

Ya, that was nice.

Curvy lines (especially the S-curve) are extremely good for making a good picture becaue they cause viewer to spend a little more time looking at the picture by following the flow of the lines subconsciously.