{"id":465,"date":"2006-05-11T12:41:02","date_gmt":"2006-05-11T12:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=465"},"modified":"2006-05-11T12:41:02","modified_gmt":"2006-05-11T12:41:02","slug":"camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/camera\/","title":{"rendered":"Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up a <a href=\"http:\/\/panasonic.co.jp\/pavc\/global\/lumix\/fz7\/index.html\">Lumix DMC-FZ7<\/a> to play with last week.  Not bad!  Besides having a kick-ass Leica lens, it also has shutter and aperture priority, program and manual modes and a big zoom (36-432mm) too.  I was raised with SLRs and rangefinders so having a digicam with these kind of controls that dun cost an arm and a leg is exciting!  The Ixus is great for carrying around and photowhoring, but sometimes you just want to work on technique and being artsy-fartsy.<br \/>\nAperture priority basically means that you can focus on an object and it will blur the background for those artsy-fartsy shots that many picture-snappers aim for.  See?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/apeture.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/apeture.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/apeture-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSince I live 5 minutes away from an international landmark, I drove 5 minutes and took some pictures last night.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/ggbridge.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/ggbridge.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/ggbridge-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Yup, it&#8217;s all a &#8220;Special Driving Zone&#8221; here&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/tollplaza.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/tollplaza.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/tollplaza-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Toll Plaza, where you pay to enter San Francisco.  Is it worth it? <\/em><br \/>\nAnd the one sign that should be plastered on all sidewalks&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/widelane.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/widelane.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/widelane-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up a Lumix DMC-FZ7 to play with last week. Not bad! Besides having a kick-ass Leica lens, it also has shutter and aperture priority, program and manual modes and a big zoom (36-432mm) too. I was raised with SLRs and rangefinders so having a digicam with these kind of controls that dun cost &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/camera\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Camera&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compooper-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2mgIi-camera","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}