The new old camera

The Casio's replacement (for now) is a FujiFilm FinePix A345.  It's a 4.1MP point-n-shoot digital camera, given to me by someone who has more digital cameras than her family uses.  The second image here has been resized and tweaked in Photoshop; the other pictures have been resized but otherwise unaltered.

The Moku Pahu at the C&H dock.

HSTC-1, the Moku Pahu's integrated barge.

Dillon Point, Mt. Diablo, and a bit of the Carquinez Strait Regional Shoreline.

Lunch break near the Cal Maritime campus.

San Pablo Bay.

The colors are sometimes oversaturated (especially on the hill in the Dillon Point shot), but usually pretty good.  The skies and white surfaces aren't constantly blown out the way they were with the Casio, but the detail isn't as good, and so cropping isn't the useful tactic that it was.  The FinePix can't seem to get the horizon level, but the Casio had a problem with that too, and I've gotten used to it.
  
The camera is idiosyncratic - it doesn't always start when the power button is pressed, and it doesn't always work even when it powers on, and sometimes it powers on or off for no apparent reason.  The camera does have a microphone for recording video, but it doesn't seem to pay attention to the many curses directed at it when it malfunctions... or maybe it's saving them up to play back at some inappropriate time.

I recently bought a 5MP waterproof camera on ebay, and with any luck it will be here before the USS Iowa is moved (Friday of next week) from the mothball fleet to Richmond; if not, the FinePix is going to have to carry the load, and so far it doesn't seem to be ready for the challenge.

Stupid camera.