Robot Dreams

Being the photo-traditionalist I am, I've resisted buying a digital camera for a long time. But, there are situations when my film SLR just isn't convenient enough. So a few days ago I got new compact digital camera. Yea I know, going from a totally old-style manual SLR, to a totally automatic compact digital is a drastic move. But I wanted something very convenient seeing as I needed something I can carry everywhere. I did have to make some compromises, the biggest being that the "manual" mode the new camera has is not really manual. Which means I'll be spending a lot of time trying to figure out how to convince the camera to focus correctly. Yesterday in my usual walking about in Evanston I took a few pictures...

The camera that took those is a FujiFilm FinePix F31fd. It's one of the best compact cameras around, in that it's SuperCCD sensor does a very good job of capturing detail at a wide range of ISOs. That wide range of ISOs is the one aspect I didn't want to give up from my SLR accustomed picture taking.