{"id":4895,"date":"2012-03-25T18:34:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T01:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2012\/03\/25\/more-thoughts-about-the-new-camera\/"},"modified":"2012-03-25T18:36:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T01:36:03","slug":"more-thoughts-about-the-new-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2012\/03\/25\/more-thoughts-about-the-new-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"More Thoughts About the New Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/telephoto.jpg' title='telephoto.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/telephoto.jpg' alt='telephoto.jpg' width='350' class='right' \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve had the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B005MTMFHU\">Canon SX40 HS<\/a> camera for over a couple of weeks now and I am still getting used to all the features. This camera is just enough different from the old PowerShot that I have to think about how to operate it.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I like a lot is the camera&#8217;s ability to zoom in on distant objects and get a clear image even though the camera is not on a tripod. The cottontail in the image above was sitting under a cholla about 25 yards up the wash behind our house. The red-eyed black bird was a bit closer, about 10 yards up in a mesquite tree across the road.<\/p>\n<p>The viewfinder is sort of interesting; it&#8217;s not optics but rather there is an LCD display monitor behind the eyepiece. It acts as though it were a viewfinder on an SLR like Damsel&#8217;s Canon XTi. It takes a little getting used to it, but it works OK. If you open the flat panel display, it becomes active and the viewfinder is disabled.<\/p>\n<p>Later this week, we&#8217;re going to take a trip across the Arizona Outback and head to some friends that live on the Colorado River near Parker, AZ. I plan to take a lot of pictures during the excursion. It will be our first trip in the new mobile home. <\/p>\n<p>Click on the image above to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had the new Canon SX40 HS camera for over a couple of weeks now and I am still getting used to all the features. This&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,19,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-retirement","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}