My Disney trip with the New Cannon PowerShot G2

[shadow]

All of the pictures were taken in the "Auto" mode since I purchased the camera to close to the departure day, within 2 days of leaving for the trip, for me to play and experiment with it a whole lot and I didn't want to chance not getting a quality picture. The most I have done with it was turning the flash off and on for certain pictures. I did take a few video's with it but not that many. Over all I was very pleased. Shutter speed was great. Flash was good enough for anything we wanted to take a flash picture of. The LCD was bright enough to see in the day and almost to bright at night. The battery lasted enough to fill 1x128mb card and 1x32mb card with better than good quality pictures, will print an 8x10 great, flash, no flash, lcd screen on all the time and reviewing some of the pictures or video. Also turning the unit off and on ALLOT.

The only down side I have found..... The 30 sec video's with sound look and sound great in a small to medium window when viewing but full screen was not good. (haven't played with the settings yet so I don't know if I can enhance the resolution for the video to be better at full screen)

Over all I was very pleased and satisfied with the camera.

Here's a link to a couple of the pictures. We took over 1600 pics and after weeding out the blury and 'junk' pictures we ended up with 1400 quality and unforgetable pictures.

Mike's Sample Family Disney 2002 vacation pictures

 

[Brotherwolf]

Wow! really nice photos!!! sounds like you're happy with your purchase?!? Now can you imagine taking that many photos with a regular camera? Not to mention the cost to devleop them all??? lol!!! thanks for sharing!

 

[shadow]

Ya know I was laughing with my wife about that very subject.

We are printing out most of the pictures as my wife wants to build a scrap book for the kids to enjoy later in life. I am trying out a refill kit with 14ml of each of the three colors that wal-mart sells for about $13 for my printer HP Photosmart 1000, sure beats a $31 cartridge with 19ml of ink total and I'm only averaging about 80 sheets of 3.5x5 pictures to an HP cartridge. The colors seem to be really close in matching. I printed one off with the refill kit and compared it to one I printed with the HP cartridge and couldn't tell that much of a diff. I am also only printing out wallet 9 to a sheet and 3.5x5, 4 to a sheet, pictures and 4x6 on request, 3 to a sheet...good enough for a scrapbook.

 

[spectr17]

Very nice pics shadow. I never thought about the printing part since I don't print that many pics. Most of my digital pics get slapped on a webpage or emailed.

Where did you get your camera?

 

[shadow]

I got the camera at Best Buy. I know I know...I could have gotten it cheaper on the web but I opted to buy at a store and in person so that I could "try" a couple of models out and also opted to buy the extended warranty since my last camera I purchased over the web and was only couple of years old and was giving me troubles before I took it to the field. I also purchased an extra battery and memory card and since I purchased it all at once the warranty covers those as well for 4 years no questions asked. Such a big investment I feel like I should get the protection as well so that I get my money's worth out of it. By the way doing the refill kits saved big money. Not using them would have cost me about $325 to print and using them only cost me about $190 and we used Kodac soft gloss paper that comes in 50 sheets for $14, since they were going into a scrap book and covered by a plastic sheet they didn't need to be high gloss.