Testing Out My New Camera

Greetings Steemians,

I'm super excited today, because yesterday I was having a chat with @skramatters about guitars, and I became so excited that I practically ran out of the house to check out a nearby pawn shop.

Admittedly, this is one of the worst pawn shops in the area, in terms of "quality inventory", probably due to the sad truth that I live in a very highly drug infested area, and most of the merchandise is likely sold to supply drug habits. It's sad, but I cannot afford new things, so I search for used, and the pawn shops sell things at a fraction of the MSRP.

The same thing happened that always seems to happen when I go there. They had a couple of electric guitars that were entry level, and no guitar cable to test them, because, "people steal our guitar cables". I told the man it's still no reason to not keep a supply, because I have been there on three occasions as a potential buyer, and still cannot try out their guitars. He agreed, then went back to his cell phone conversation, which seemed a bit more important than the customer, but oh well.

I've also been looking for a decent camera there for some time, and did not expect to ever find a nice one. Sony Cyber-Shot cameras are the best you will usually find at this particular pawn shop.

It was as if the sky opened up, and rays of sunshine came splashing down on this beautiful Samsung WB100.

My jaw just about hit the floor when I saw it, because it was priced well under retail value. I checked it for functionality, and knew right away that it must leave with me. I told him I'll take it, and reminded him to get some guitar cables so that he may stop losing business on his guitars. He seemed to have a different tone at this point and said "yes sir, absolutely we'll get one.". Amazing how money seems to dictate how people treat others..

What is even more exciting, is the fact that me and @akiroq have been talking about photography, as it's something we both love, and she was also very excited and mentioned she will teach me some of her tricks! So this is great, I can't wait to learn more and step my photography game up!

Here are some "test shots". I will need to actually read the manual on this thing. There are so many settings, and half of them I don't understand. I've always been more of a hands on kind of guy, but I'm gonna actually have to study to get the most out of the camera. That's ok, it will be fun!

So without knowing what the heck I am doing yet, here are a few test captures!

There are no filters on these, but for some reason, it looks like there is an active filter effect, weird.. but they still look decent to me.

That's it for now Steemians. I have some ideas and plans in the making. I will work on learning this camera better, and increasing/enhancing the resolution. Feel free to let me know what you think!

Much love,
@futuremind