I get so busy with my old film cameras that sometimes I forget my Canon PowerShot S95 does good work. I took it with me the other evening to Northwestway Park, where I met a friend for a stroll as the sun set. Northwestway is a suburban park surrounded by cul-de-sac subdivisions. It’s where youth play organized soccer on Indianapolis’s Northwestside.
Thanks to encouragement from my old friend Michael I’ve been experimenting with shooting my S95 in aperture-priority (Av) mode rather than in fully automatic mode. Setting up Av mode is slower and less intuitive than on any of my old film cameras, but then the screen shows exactly what I’m going to get, so I call it a fair tradeoff. I shot this with my lens zoomed to a 50mm equivalent, with “film speed” at ISO 80, for 1/200 sec. at f/3.2, with exposure bumped up by a third of a stop. The S95 packs an f/2 lens, but when it’s zoomed from its 24mm default to 50mm, f/3.2 is as wide as it opens.
Another favorite digital photo is of a rainy evening, from my deck. See it here.
