Okay, maybe not $1000, but at least half. The Sony Alpha NEX-3
is just awesome. When my son was born we purchased a Canon DSLR. I love to take photographs, but I hated the slow shutter speed of the pocket digital cameras {at the time}. I knew that to really capture infants and small children, you need very fast response time. So we splurged and and purchased the big bulky DSLR and I haven't regretted the purchase to this day. What I do long for is the size of the pocket cameras. When you have 2 kids and all the myriad things that come with them, the last thing you can afford to add to it is a big, bulky, fragile camera. But I've done it, it's just not fun. And I've missed a lot of photographic opportunities solely because I didn't have enough hands {or energy} to pull out my DSLR.
This Christmas I was helping my mom pick a gift for my dad. Now, he's still using a Cybershot from 2000. Needless, to say, it's slooowww. But as I looked for a new flicker, I stumbled across Smile Shutter from Sony. It's on a number of their cameras, but I liked it best paired with the Sony Alpha NEX-3
. The Smile Shutter, when enabled, makes the camera take a picture when the subjects smile. This is incredibly useful when your subjects are little people who smile quickly and out of the blue. So I was eager to try it out on Christmas Day. Unfortunately, that did not happen because Sony does not include memory sticks with their cameras {can we say cheap! geez}. A few days later, after I received the memory stick from Amazon I took the Alpha NEX-3 out for a click. The results were so wonderful!
My seven month old is the most adorable little one ever {yes, I'm biased} and looks even more amazing when he smiles. But it's difficult to catch him cracking one. I'm always so busy trying to get him to smile, I often miss the smiles or catch them on the tail end. But with the Smile Shutter set, I just held up the camera while I made funny noises and faces trying to get my little one to smile. And just as advertised, as soon as he flashed his pearly 2 whites, the shutter snapped. The picture is the best one I have and I can't wait to take many many more.
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| SMILE! {not my little one, but he's still cute} |
