Comparison

As recounted long ago, I once dropped my then-favorite camera off of North Harper Creek Falls. The camera amazingly survived (after being dried out), but began a slow decline until finally it stopped working. It took the best photos for a simple point-and-click. Since those days, I moved on to an SLR which takes near-professional quality photographs. But I always thought that some of my photos with my old Powershot S3 IS were among the best I ever took. For one thing, it took much better Macro shots than even my SLR camera. And while it was only 6 megapixels, unless I was trying to blow up the photo to large dimensions, the sharpness of the images were exceptional. I've been told that this was the case because of the unique lens that Canon utilized for that model.

Last week, I found one of these cameras on Ebay. Like-new condition. Flawless cosmetically, and flawless functionally. I took it on a jaunt to the mountains yesterday and snapped photos with it, and with my SLR. Guess which photos were taken by which camera. One camera cost $1000, the other $39, postage paid, from Ebay.

1:

Backbone Rock Falls.

2:

The Falls.

3:

Molly's Knob.

4:

Park Bridge in Hungry Mother State Park.

5:

Raccoon track, Hungry Mother State Park.

6:

Rhododendron hell, Hungry Mother State Park.

7:

Summit area of Molly's Knob.

8:

Backbone Rock Falls.

9:

Molly's Knob.

10:

Backbone Rock.