I originally brought a Sony
DCR-TRV900 digital video camera to produce films, but then it occurred
to me that they had an advantage over all other still cameras. You can
film in full resolution progressive scan mode and pick the best frame.
You can capture the exact moment in time that you would normally have to
rely on luck to shoot. This increases the possibilities of the kind of
pictures that you can take, though keeping a fast moving, small object
in focus with a high shutter speed and short depth of field does not make
a good shot any easier to acheive. The results though reveal things that
are too quick for the eye to normally perceive, such as how birds jump
off vertical twigs before flying, how insects fly backwards away from flowers
and the wave of their wings, the length frog legs extend to in order to
jump.
Digital cameras also have the advantage in allowing you to choose
between black & white, sepia and colour and also to simulate the effects
of filters without the need for a computer. You can take infra-red pictures
during the day in extremely bright sunshine if you have an infra-red filter.
The LCD monitor allows you to get unusual angles and after viewing if you do
not like the result, take another.
Because televisions are brighter than computer monitors the stills from
a digital camera need the gamma increased by 1.2 Any colour correction
that has occurred on these pictures has been achieved in Photoshop by
either using the automatic contrast or the automatic balance functions
(Shift+Ctrl+Alt-L or Shift+Ctrl-L). None of the photos have been cropped
or resized.
bubbles
drops
infra-red
wild-life
moving pictures
others