New digital camera! my first!!
 

At last, after years and years wanting a digital camera I bought one today :D :D

it's a Canon powershot SD500

7.1 megapixels
Optical zoom 3 x
6 oz
and 2in display
http://www.canon.com.mx/catalogo/productos/FCDC037.jpg

it might not be the monster that must of you guys have, but I looked for a small camera with more than 5Mpixels and could do more than just take the candid shot
and because I can take it inside my jeans

now I'll start taking some serious pics to reach TT's quality

sweet! now antonio can join in on the attack on imageshack's servers :D :lol: Great new camera antonio, i'm sure you'll have fun with it :D

We don't need pics of inside your jeans though mate :shock: :lol:

Seriously though, great camera, go out and take some pics for us Antonio!

Congratulations! We need to see some test shots. :D

sorry, me bad english. :lol:

I'm testing it, but I don't like the pics... and I've been testing for the last couple hours

welcome to the canon family :D
enjoy taking new pics.

No, Antonio, your English is fine. It is my bad jokes :wink:

bad bad boy. You should change your comedy routine :wink:

@mojo... yes, it seems to be the same. At cnet.com they had labeled Canon powershot SD500/Ixus.
nowI'm getting better looking pics, but I don't like the shutter speed it has programes
I'll practice more

Nice one, don't forget to always put it inside your jeans :)

Now, what about posting a couple of pictures to let us see the quality? :)

congrats mate, nice camera,take nice shoots and be happy with your new toy =)

of course, it's very rare when I forget something, like my cellphone, wallet, etc

and here are the first shots
this was testing the continuous shooting with long shutter (I hate this, the fastest speed available is 1 second, not 1/32, nor 1/25, etc)
http://img287.imageshack.us/img287/8...02514xz.th.jpg

testing how the autofocus behaved with some reflections
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/2...03914vz.th.jpg

photo of my GM chevy, in europe known as corsa. The first was with the long shutter mode. It looks kinda grainy. Used 1" and ISO400
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/3...04318ql.th.jpg

and with the normal autofocus
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/1...04417sk.th.jpg

my faithful and very disobedient dog, with my father's leg :mrgreen:

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/5...04711oc.th.jpg

and the house that's being built behind mine. Checking how the camera managed the different contrasts
http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/7...05316aw.th.jpg

please have in mind that I have only taken 20 pics and I never was a good photographer (never had the money to experiment, yes I had it, but I liked more to date a chick 8) ).

My opinion so far... it's a good camera for anyone that has his casual shots. Easy to use, but I don't doubt that in a year I'll buy another one, maybe an SLR :mrgreen:

Nice quality shots imo... from one amateur to another :mrgreen: 7pixels sound very good :P Congrats Tony :wink:

Nice camera - Beats the hell out of my 3.2 megapixel Fujifilm!

8)

I'll take your word. Now to wait for the "pic king" to say my pics are crap :P

and I was going to buy a 3.2 megapixel camera, but the store where I bought it had the option to pay the camera in 12 months without interests. So imagine paying 40 uds per month or 50usd.

I don't understad why they would give such a camera such high-res (7 MP) when the lenses in it would produce a shitty image anyway. At full res you'd just get one big blurry, distorted image.