And here I go!
Hello, my dear readers!
A while ago I was asking you about what camera I should choose. My budget was limited, my desires were (and still are) unlimited so it was a hard decision.
On this Black Friday I bought a new camera. In Romania, Black Friday was this year on 22nd November(because 30th November and 1st December are free days and it’s hard to deliver so many products if Black Friday would be on 29th November).
So I’m the owner of a lovely Canon Powershot SX 160 IS.
If you wonder what I was looking for, you might find useful to read my post here.
But why this Canon?
1. This was the best camera I could aford at this moment.
2. I have complete control of exposure, selecting both aperture and shutter speed manually. I can even control manually the focus. (This is something new for me and not so easy to master.)
3. 16x Optical Zoom Lens(lens starts at 28mm wide-angle and extends to 448mm telephoto). You know I love birds and this zoom helps me so much.
It was very hard for me to get used this week with the new camera but I hope for more, and more, and more.
My main subject now: birds.
Here you have some photos.
Even sparrows are nice posers:
We don’t have many woodpeckers as then when I was a kid…unfortunatelly.
This Common buzard was standing on a pole and after he noticed me, he decided to go. But you may see in the photo below how the mud ‘flew’ from its claws(the snow it’s almost melted and the fields are muddy). It was a very powerful take off!
I will be as busy as the chickadee above.
Have a nice week!
Cornell's photos and words 
Congratulations on the new camera. Like you, my focus shifts to birds during the winter. This collection if shots is a great start with the new camera and I look forward to more wonderful images from you.
Thank you very much!
You have so many birds there!! And so many water birds!
I learn every single day about ISO, exposure, aperture… I’m trying my best!
🙂
Have a nice evening, here it’s already 11:19 pm.
Congratulations again on the new camera, and for some great photos for your first post! I love the birds, but hope that you also continue to photograph the flowers and insects as you did before.
Thank you!
I will continue to photograph flowers and insects, but this camera allows me to do what I was eager to do such long time ago: to observe closer the birds.
I love the picture of the Great Spotted Woodpecker. Such a colorful woodpecker. Congratulations on the new camera. Enjoy mastering all you have to learn!
Thank you! Yes, it seems this woodpecker is more colourful that others woodpekers. We have some green woodpeckers, but those are not so easy to be seen here as this one.
An excellent start and to get birds both flying and perching shows that you are working well already.
Thank you!
I must learn more and more. And I must take more photos, also, this is the only way to understand how a camera works.
That is of course very true.
It looks like you and that new camera are getting along just fine!
Yes, it’s true.
These days I was outside many hours trying to understand better the settings. It’s a lovely experience. But, by the other hand, when I miss a photo I am 10x sadder that I was with the other camera.
Wow! Well done! I can already see you’re having great fun with this!! So glad to know you’ve finally got a better camera, and I know you will do it justice!
Thank you!
Yes, it is a better camera and helps me a lot. 🙂
I try more and more but still it’s hard. You know better (ISO, aperture, manual focus) than me but I will find a way to understand these and get lovely photos.
At this point I have a problem with birds in flight using maximum zoom…