Tech Friday: The right gear for the job

I love Nose Art, it’s such a remarkable part of the personality of the plane and owner. This morning I did a little experiment while shooting a lot of nose art. In World War I most planes were painted with logos that identified the squadron. By WW II the art took on a much more personal nature. Men depicted their girl friends, wives, and logo art that depicted the mission. In many art critics opinions, it became an important part of folk art. These examples gave me a chance to try out a certain camera lens combination and see just how it would perform.

For Tech Friday I decided to shoot an entire series of images with Nikon’s newest Coolpix the P7000 and boy was I impressed with it’s quality. This is Nikon’s top of the line compact camera,
10 mega pixels, 28-200 zoom at 2.8 wide open aperture, 3” Hi Res LCD screen, actual viewfinder, shoots 720 P video, and is built like a little tank. All that is great, but if it doesn’t shoot great images, it’s not of much consequence. But it does! These images were all shot with this little fellow and I love it. I don’t think I will ever travel again without this camera, I just might be tempted to actually go some places with nothing but it. But what about shooting in low light at higher ISO?

Now let’s get really creative, the shot below is a small section of the image above enlarged to
24 X 36!!!!! Yes a little noise, but hey, 24 X 36 at ISO 1600!!!!!!

Well from the image of me above, with the little P7000, shot by Bill Pekala, you can see how happy I am. I used a tripod so I could see just how capable this camera can be, and I’m sold. At $499. it is a real package for the times you want to travel light. This is the closest thing yet to my dream travel camera…….

Thanks Father for another fun day, more to come on Saturday and Sunday, stay tuned.

the pilgrim

For more info contact Nikon at this link:

http://www.nikonusa.com/Find-Your-Nikon/Product/Digital-Camera/26233/COOLPIX-P7000.html