A picture is worth a thousand words; a slide show is both !!!

Read this quote somewhere and it gave me inspiration to start a Photo Blog....." A Portrait of Life"

I have developed an interest in Photography in last 7-8 months…..precisely around Diwali – 2004 (Festival of Lights in India). So, as always I have started putting in effort to learn it in the right way. Since, I don’t have time to actively pursue any Classes ( though I wish I can), I am learning gradually with the help of online tutorials and lots of PDF books (Thanx Santosh !!)

One of the most important decisions was “Which Camera???” Film or Digital, SLR or Non SLR…….With the world moving toward digital, I opted for it but I was again stuck on the decision of whether to buy a DSLR or not. In the end the financial constraints took over and I finally opted for Panasonic FZ-20. Generally people opt for Canon or Nikon cameras and don’t take Panasonic Brand serious but Panasonic has always been a good maker of cameras and it was the only brand with camera models in each list of best cameras in 2004. Its FZ list is amazing and FZ -20 is the best of list and the best you can opt for if you are not going for DSLR.
Few features of Panasonic FZ-20 are :

Effective pixels 5.0 million
ISO rating Auto, 80, 100, 200, 400
Zoom wide (W) 36 mm
Optical Zoom/ Zoom tele (T) 432 mm (12 x)
Digital zoom Yes, 4 x
Image stabilization Yes, lens Best in the market
Storage types SD/MMC card

You can read more details about the camera at

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Panasonic/panasonic_dmcfz20.asp


So here I am with my new Photo blog. Please don’t have high expectations from my pictures. I am still trying to take decent pics.

A special thanx to Prashant for inspiring me to start this Blog.

Cheers to a wonderful world of Photography !!!

~ Deeps