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Comment by Gromit, Sparkle, and Doug on October 24, 2012 at 2:20am

A shot from the fund raiser picnic for Arizona Cactus Corgi Rescue:

click for the full size image.  The rest of the shots from the day are here.

Comment by Gary Chandler on October 19, 2012 at 1:18am

This is Lilly, she is 8 months old now, posing for a fall portrait.

Comment by Kiara Ovalle on October 19, 2012 at 12:07am

Vote for Evie please

Could you and your friend vote for Evie :) just type her name on the search box under Entries
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Comment by David & Puzzle on October 16, 2012 at 4:06am

To follow up on Laura's question (and maybe give some personal experience) I've had two micro four thirds cameras as well as two older low-mid tier digital canon bodies. All the camera bodies Doug mentioned perform at least as capably and have as many features (sometimes more) as an entry level dslr in a smaller yet more solid feeling form factor. The nice Nikon and Canon bodies and lenses are a jump in quality but also equally noticeable jump in price/size.

One thing about camera bodies for action shots that I do want to point out is I had a harder time panning (moving the camera with the motion of a moving subject to further blur the background) with a body that didn't have a viewfinder (Panasonic GF1). I think using the viewfinder on a Panasonic GH2/3 or Olympus OM-D makes the camera easier to brace close to your body, which makes for a more stable platform.

As far as lenses go, for the Olympus and Panasonic bodies, the lenses are interchangeable between brands (Sony is technically doing its own format so far), and the only lens issue I would bring up is that the Panasonic 20mm has horribly slow autofocus. I should mention though that that 20mm is by far my favorite lens and is wonderfully sharp and might be the best value... but I am semi-comfortable with having to prefocus.

Comment by Gromit, Sparkle, and Doug on September 22, 2012 at 10:54pm

Laura, Indoors your Tough is struggling with white balance, that's why the colors are yellow.  I don't know if it has a function for manual white balance setting or not.  Indoors where the light is low the camera can do certain things to get the exposure right like slow the shutter speed, change the ISO, increase the aperture, or pop the flash.  That camera takes it's best guess at what will give the right exposure but the less expensive cameras lack "range" in those settings so the camera runs into a wall and can't always find a solution to every problem, especially in low light situations (on most rooms are very low light compared to outdoors).

For action shots the E-PL1 does fine. It does shutter speeds up to 2000th of the second and that will stop a Corgi cold, it handles higher ISO speeds pretty well so it's possible to stop the action pretty easily, especially outdoors.  If you're doing action shots indoors it gets a little trickier but that's part of the learning process, the camera can do it.

I suggested the Oly Pen because I know it works well but there are certainly other fine cameras depending on how much you want to spend.  The Sony NEX series is very nice as is the Panasonic Lumix GX1.  All those cameras are mid-sized Micro 4/3 sensor cameras so they offer the feature of interchangeable lenses in a more modest camera size.  If you step up to a full DSLR then the performance possibilities get better.  My regular camera is a Nikon D90 and it's very nice but also rather large and the prices go up.

If you go to DPReview you can use their camera feature search to narrow down what might be the right camera for you.

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