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Disneyland pics
Made it to Disneyland yesterday and finally put the new camera to a real test. Overall veeeery impressed with it. The nighttime without flash kicks ass. Although you have to be very still when you take the pictures - my attempts to take them inside rides without a flash turned out pretty blurry since you're moving, so I didn't bother to post them. But I did take a few videos with it. It automatically saves it as an avi file, but I have no idea what kind of encoding it uses. A couple very short clips:
50 seconds of Haunted Mansion
(Was holding the camera still by propping on the lap bar, but the car keeps moving back and forth, so not as smooth as I'd like it.)
20 seconds - New Captain Jack animatronic in Pirates of the Caribbean
(A bit jerky since at that point the boat is going up the chain lift.)
Now on to the pictures. I didn't modify the color, brightness, contrast, etc. on any of these, mainly since![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
poohmusings has been thinking about getting this camera and wanted to show the raw pictures. Just resized (and cropped a couple) and then sharpened, since resizing in photoshop tends to make it a bit blurry. I vastly reduced the file size on these, but there are still 46 pics behind the cuts.
I was pretty impressed with this pic for the simple reason I'm taking a picture into the sun.
Now, you'd think with big candycorn letters that DCA would have *tons* of Halloween decorations. You'd be wrong. There were NONE. Found some bats by the Tower of Terror, but that was it. And I walked the whole park. A simple thing they could do to this park to draw visitors would be to decorate it. Apparently not since it must remain bare. Perhaps going for a minimalist thing. At least it's easy to walk around in since it's utterly lacking in people.
You'll have to pretend this is a picture of Patrick Warburton on a video screen since I got yelled at for having my camera out inside before I could take a picture.
For you, Karen!
The only sign of Halloween in DCA. And actually, this could be permanent. I have no idea. (Actually, there was a "Halloween" show going on at the Golden Dreams theater, but you'd hardly know it from the outside.)
From the top of the Sun Wheel looking at Soarin, the Matterhorn and Space Mountain.
Playing with the macro feature.
There are some pretty areas of the park. Just no pumpkins.
On the other hand, Disneyland was awash in pumpkins. These were over the entrances.
That's tons of mini pumpkins making up that Mickey face.
On every gas lamp on Main Street. (I love that Main Street has actual gas lamps.)
Even the Disneyland Band had orange. (Love that they've started up the Disneyland Marching Band again. It's just so quaint. Actually, there were lots of performers everywhere.)
"I will eat you and your children. Mwahahaha."
Poor Walt and his unfortunate pose. But more pumpkins. And orange flowers everywhere.
Playing with the macro feature again in Frontierland.
Haunted Mansion's already been converted to Nightmare Before Christmas. I'm so non-purist - I actually like the holiday version better than the regular version. Love the music.
Love the pumpkin lanterns! It was all kind of pretty this way. (Out back by the petting zoo.)
Gotta get a pic of the castle when you're at Disneyland!
Chair from the PotC movie. Don't know why more people don't go to the Disney Gallery up above the PotC ride. I always find the neatest stuff up there.
Captain Jack!! (Thought this was a pretty good look-alike.)
Not bad considering that the train is a roller coaster and is zipping on by.
The Matterhorn! It was closed.
May make this into a wallpaper for work.
Did I mention I love the holiday version of the Haunted Mansion?
Again, none of the pics in this section were taken using a flash. Was *impressed.*
Okay, *dusk* on this one. But it was still pretty.
The castle from both sides.
Was zipping on by on the Frontierland bridge when the reflection caught my eye and I skidded to a halt. Pretty!
Pretty impressed with this shot. Not only did I not use a flash, those teacups are moving pretty quickly.
Heh. Twisty lamp.
Pretty tree. There was a street lamp nearby, but really it was not that bright. Looks like I used a flash, but I didn't.
Random Tomorrowland neon.
On a few of these shots I did have to discard the first pic. You do have to hold the camera absolutely still to get these.
There really were pumpkins everywhere. Every building ledge had them.
Giant pumpkin that still wants to eat your children.
Entryway pumpkins lit up.
One thing about the fireworks setting on the camera, you really don't know what you're going to wind up with. It's not like you will get what you were looking at in real time when you pressed the button. Even though I was dog-tired, I'm glad I stayed. The "50th" fireworks show at Disneyland is still the most impressive fireworks - think you'd have to call it a "production" - I've ever seen. These pics don't even come close to doing it justice.
Okay, this was really cool. This was during the Haunted Mansion sequence when they said "is this room actually stretching?" I was standing in the middle of Main Street and these things surrounded us on all sides in a circle, shooting up about 400 feet in the air to emulate the elevator room in the Haunted Mansion. SO COOL.
During the Star Tours/Star Wars sequence. It's an exploding planet firework! The green line you can kind of see - the castle was shooting out lasers. HEE!
Another exploding planet firework.
Ooooooooh. Aaaaaaaaaaah.
50 seconds of Haunted Mansion
(Was holding the camera still by propping on the lap bar, but the car keeps moving back and forth, so not as smooth as I'd like it.)
20 seconds - New Captain Jack animatronic in Pirates of the Caribbean
(A bit jerky since at that point the boat is going up the chain lift.)
Now on to the pictures. I didn't modify the color, brightness, contrast, etc. on any of these, mainly since
poohmusings has been thinking about getting this camera and wanted to show the raw pictures. Just resized (and cropped a couple) and then sharpened, since resizing in photoshop tends to make it a bit blurry. I vastly reduced the file size on these, but there are still 46 pics behind the cuts.I was pretty impressed with this pic for the simple reason I'm taking a picture into the sun.
Now, you'd think with big candycorn letters that DCA would have *tons* of Halloween decorations. You'd be wrong. There were NONE. Found some bats by the Tower of Terror, but that was it. And I walked the whole park. A simple thing they could do to this park to draw visitors would be to decorate it. Apparently not since it must remain bare. Perhaps going for a minimalist thing. At least it's easy to walk around in since it's utterly lacking in people.
You'll have to pretend this is a picture of Patrick Warburton on a video screen since I got yelled at for having my camera out inside before I could take a picture.
For you, Karen!
The only sign of Halloween in DCA. And actually, this could be permanent. I have no idea. (Actually, there was a "Halloween" show going on at the Golden Dreams theater, but you'd hardly know it from the outside.)
From the top of the Sun Wheel looking at Soarin, the Matterhorn and Space Mountain.
Playing with the macro feature.
There are some pretty areas of the park. Just no pumpkins.
On the other hand, Disneyland was awash in pumpkins. These were over the entrances.
That's tons of mini pumpkins making up that Mickey face.
On every gas lamp on Main Street. (I love that Main Street has actual gas lamps.)
Even the Disneyland Band had orange. (Love that they've started up the Disneyland Marching Band again. It's just so quaint. Actually, there were lots of performers everywhere.)
"I will eat you and your children. Mwahahaha."
Poor Walt and his unfortunate pose. But more pumpkins. And orange flowers everywhere.
Playing with the macro feature again in Frontierland.
Haunted Mansion's already been converted to Nightmare Before Christmas. I'm so non-purist - I actually like the holiday version better than the regular version. Love the music.
Love the pumpkin lanterns! It was all kind of pretty this way. (Out back by the petting zoo.)
Gotta get a pic of the castle when you're at Disneyland!
Chair from the PotC movie. Don't know why more people don't go to the Disney Gallery up above the PotC ride. I always find the neatest stuff up there.
Captain Jack!! (Thought this was a pretty good look-alike.)
Not bad considering that the train is a roller coaster and is zipping on by.
The Matterhorn! It was closed.
May make this into a wallpaper for work.
Did I mention I love the holiday version of the Haunted Mansion?
Again, none of the pics in this section were taken using a flash. Was *impressed.*
Okay, *dusk* on this one. But it was still pretty.
The castle from both sides.
Was zipping on by on the Frontierland bridge when the reflection caught my eye and I skidded to a halt. Pretty!
Pretty impressed with this shot. Not only did I not use a flash, those teacups are moving pretty quickly.
Heh. Twisty lamp.
Pretty tree. There was a street lamp nearby, but really it was not that bright. Looks like I used a flash, but I didn't.
Random Tomorrowland neon.
On a few of these shots I did have to discard the first pic. You do have to hold the camera absolutely still to get these.
There really were pumpkins everywhere. Every building ledge had them.
Giant pumpkin that still wants to eat your children.
Entryway pumpkins lit up.
One thing about the fireworks setting on the camera, you really don't know what you're going to wind up with. It's not like you will get what you were looking at in real time when you pressed the button. Even though I was dog-tired, I'm glad I stayed. The "50th" fireworks show at Disneyland is still the most impressive fireworks - think you'd have to call it a "production" - I've ever seen. These pics don't even come close to doing it justice.
Okay, this was really cool. This was during the Haunted Mansion sequence when they said "is this room actually stretching?" I was standing in the middle of Main Street and these things surrounded us on all sides in a circle, shooting up about 400 feet in the air to emulate the elevator room in the Haunted Mansion. SO COOL.
During the Star Tours/Star Wars sequence. It's an exploding planet firework! The green line you can kind of see - the castle was shooting out lasers. HEE!
Another exploding planet firework.
Ooooooooh. Aaaaaaaaaaah.
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I'm totally loving the quality of your camera. It's a bit pricier than I'd like to spend on a camera, though. (Especially since I don't tend to take lots of pictures unless on some big trip.) So I might go for a model one or two down from yours. Hopefully the quality will still be the same. :)
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I know that this is the only Elph model that has the image stabilization feature. Not sure how that would translate into practical use though.
Sadly, don't think the pumpkins will be there when you're down. :(
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*does not need another camera*
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What kind is it again?
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It's a Canon PowerShot Elph SD700.
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