Testing New Camera

We were anxious to get some practice with our new camera yesterday so we took a short trip to the same genearal area of Grand Teton National Park where we saw lots of wildlife - near the barns. The results were mixed, but, from my standpoint, somewhat disappointing. It is a 14 megapixel camera and it appears in some of our shots that the added resolution has created some "grainy" details in the foreground of some of the shots.


Starting with our first encounter of a large herd of bison that was in a field and starting to cross the road at the time we arrived at this section in the road:

We saw a couple pronghorn off in the distance and it gave us a chance to test the zoom capabilities of this new camera. They were about 300 yards away and this shot was a bit better than we would have gotten with our other camera:

There were other pronghorn antelope that we came across and these shots were taken of that group:

Finally, we took some more pictures of the barns and here are a couple of those:

The pictures here are actually a good representation of the cameras abilities, although some of the more "grainy" looking shots were omitted. We took 37 pictures during our short trip.

Today, we will take another trip to a different area in the Tetons and we plan to take both cameras and get the same shots with each of them so we can compare them side by side. It's nice to be at our "weekend" for the work week, so we will have some fun and also get some chores done...