new camera

What fantastic shots Fran - brilliant!

(Though I was a bit fazed by what I took at first to be the date on the first one - especially as cameras weren't available in those days, lol!)
How are your bulbs doing?

Hi Stera, thanks for pointing that out: I hadn't noticed - obviously! corrected now, thanks.

I've not done much; fits and starts, mostly. The daffs are up and a lot of narcissi, various types of each, and crocus and grape hyacinth - seem to be scattered patches, no big drifts of colour.

I keep trying to group them, but once i dig them up, I can't tell what's what: I really should mark them while they're in bloom, so that I'll get to learn which bulb is what.

yes camera shake is the cause of many fuzzy pictures. the resolution is stunning too well done.

Fab pics Fran!

Thanks Seaburngirl and Waddy.

No matter how carefully i press the shutter release, there's always some pressure and that's enough to jolt the camera. I've got so many photos whre the moon looks like a squeeze of toothpaste! I really need a cable thingy but this camera doesn't have a slot for it, sigh.

But at elast I've got a stable platform for it ow, which helps. it's still a bit hit-and-miss, though, i really nust try to get the manual into accessible shape! but when it works, wow. i can't believe that, on the two lower photos, the camera caught the sun starting to light up the far side of some craters.

Fran, I salute you. I use Automatic all the time!

My camera would not be capable of photographing the moon even if I knew how to use it!

Hi Fran I don't even know if my camera will allow me to do manual. I think to moon is too far for my tiny camera. Congratulations on the pictures. Show a trip round shrewsbury if you cannot manage any garden ones. Such a lovely place when we stayed there.

That is amazing Fran.

@ Dorjac - before this i had a Kodak point-and-shoot which was better than my previus, but still nowhere as good as this one - not as much zoom, for one thing, and i didn't have a tripod, so the camera-shake led to some interesing "arty" squiggles and smears!
I've not been around town with the camera yet, but there's certainly plenty of Old Shrewsbury to have a go at.

@ Linda, thanks, I was pretty astonished at them myself! and once I get past the point-and-shoot and start learning how to tweak the settings ...