first project with the new camera

Didn’t get home from LoanScapes till about 8PM last night…. Pride is just around the corner here in St. Louis – which – for Homo-businesses, is the equivalent to Christmas, (marketing wise). So… (thankfully), their CEO, (my second favorite lesbian), booked me for the day to come in and create some spots for the upcoming festival and work on some other stuff.

Probably foolish to jump right into a “real” assignment before cracking the owners manual on the new camera.

So far I’m pretty happy with it… Some settings that used to be within thumb’s reach on the old camera are now clear on the other side of the body. I actually think the new configuration is more intuitive but I’m so used to the old one which became second nature that I have to just give myself some time to readapt before passing judgment.

My biggest bitch with Sony on Human / Machine interface design is that their designers don’t get the whole “tactile scale” thing. (Make buttons larger and smaller based on what they do)… Example – the PlayStation’s ANNOYING square, x, triangle and circle button… They’re all the same friggin’ size as opposed to the Game Cube’s use of different size / shaped buttons.

Things I’ve noticed so far.. This new rig is “faster”. (focusing, lens to screen refresh, etc.)… They’ve also added some “disco” to the information presented on the screen. Functions and settings are “animated” now with little 3Dish swoopy animations. Touches which would probably make chrisglass roll his eyes – but they tickle me.

I didn’t notice the “auto-ASA” until AFTER I snapped the group shots. From what I can tell so far is that the camera chose too fast of an ASA and too slow of a shutter speed.. (shame on me for not taking the extra five minutes to derive a more suitable manual exposure). The result was less than razor sharp images – but they’ll work fine for the intended size… And these spots are running in web-press produced publications that use a paper-stock resembling toilet paper.

I need to play more.

Today is Kevin and Chad’s wednesday – so I need to get the hell outa here.

No time for boring technical journalling about my new toy.

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