A quick(ish) history of my pocket cameras in a series of (not very) random images...

Me, at the North Star. Taken by a friend without my knowledge when I was showing her my new Pentax X33LF. Not really a pocket camera - it was bulky and weighed too much - and only 3 and a bit MP. You will be glad to hear that I, at least, have lost weight since then! About 3 stone, in fact!


My next pocket camera was a Vivitar X8027 - up to 8MP! Must have been around 2012 as that was the last time we had an appreciable amount of snow! Nice camera, but tended to forget certain settings, which was a bit of a pain.


Next came my Canon A1200 with, you've guessed, 12MP. A nice little camera, but with a limited zoom. The dancers (appropriately outside HMV) are apparently a sundial, as well as a deeply meaningful representation of the history of Staines.


For while I also had an Olympus SH-1. Didn't really get on with it - superzoom, but no viewfinder and with eyesight as bad as mine, you really need one. The angel above is part of the Staines War Memorial.


And my current pocket camera - a Lumix LF1. Reasonable zoom (28-200mm equivalent), nice viewfinder, reasonable 'macro' facility (that's a Mint Moth on a gone to seed chive plant) etc. I really like it. So, of course, Panasonic have dropped it from the range!

So, there you go, 5 cameras in about 13 years. And I still own four of them!

 

Oops, forgot one!

Spelthorne Council Offices taken with my Olympus C-1 Zoom. 1.3MP! A gift from a neighbour who found it too complicated to use. Pretty bad distortion at wide angle - the above example has been 'straightened' a bit...

 

Primroses on our garden path (HX90)...

 

On the way home we ran into this swan who may have had a frog in his throat (Sony HX90)

 

Another plane grabbed in passing, Just got the camera out as it passed overhead...

 

Apparently a 1989 PA-28-161 Cadet that used to be registered as SE-KII.

Amazing the info people put on this 'ere internet thingy.

 

One thing about pocket cameras is that they tend to have small sensors, which means short focal length lenses. Which means they can provide a 'macro' mode with reasonable DOF. Like this pic of an evil invader I just grabbed.

Harlequin ladybird

Mind you, I did have to crop the image quite a bit...

 

My pocket camera is a Canon Powershot SX170.

 

Nothing evil about that - unless you're an aphid of course...

 

Or a native ladybird - the Harlequins (American invader, iirc) not only predate the native ones, but also carry diseases that the local ones have no immunity to.

A bit like the American crayfish wiping out the English ones.

 

Summer's suddenly sat up and is whacking us round the chops. This is our neighbour's mock orange that intrudes a little way into our garden. I don't mind when it flowers like this...

 

These poppies just showed up in our garden and very welcome they are too...

 

Seeing as all my pics on here have been effectively removed by the money-grabbing ********** at Photobucket, have an attachment to help make up for it...

Banded demoiselle (male). Probably.

ETA: there were two of them fluttering about - and a third one which was mainly green. A female they were fighting over?

 

This thread's gone a bit quiet. How about a sqare(ish) tree to get things going again (Sony HX90) ...

 

You can get some nicely compressed perspective when your lens can zoom to the equivalent of 720mm on full frame (Sony HX90) ...

 

I didn't think I had any pocket camera shots available to share...but I was wrong.

Here are a couple from my little Fuji 200EXR - all taken from the roof of my old office...

Another Roof Shot 5 by Jeff Johnson, on Flickr

Another Roof Shot 2 by Jeff Johnson, on Flickr

Another Roof Shot by Jeff Johnson, on Flickr

Cheers, Jeff