Yup I said it. Some people probably think I'm crazy, I may be, but after my awesome vacation to Puerto Rico last week, my Evo has officially replaced my point and shoot. I love electronics. I'll admit. I went on this vacation ready with my dedicated point and shoot (12mp Kodak) and my Kodak Zi8. Not the best of both categories, but still very good products and both in the class of products the average person will buy. I kept both Kodaks with my luggage for the flight. On the plane, and when we first arrived to PR I took a few pictures with my Evo. I was pretty impressed. But thought nothing of it... Got to the hotel nice and early, changed, hit the beach... There was my first dilemma... what do I take? Do I really want to go to the beach with my phone, camera and a pocket camcorder? Nah. So I left all but my Evo.. Again, started taking pictures. I was again pretty impressed. Went upstairs, changed again, then head off to Old San Juan. When it was time to leave I was yet again faced with a dilemma.. I brought all this stuff.. But do I really want to walk around for all these hours with my pockets filled with electronics? Having to constantly pull one out, put the other and so on and so on. Also, sitting in the bus would be annoying with all that stuff in my pockets... So.. I figured, what the hell. Lets try the Evo for a day. It was then that my Evo replaced my Kodak. It was great. Only had to carry one device around. It was also really easy to to send a quick picture to relative, friend, twitter or facebook. I also had the benefit of "720p" recording. True 720p recording? Meh. But still pretty good quality for what I needed. At the end of the day I already had almost 100 pictures. I uploaded them to my computer and I was pretty impressed. Would my 12mp Kodak have taken better pictures? Hell ya. No question about that. But the picture quality from the Evo was good enough that the convenience of not having to lug around a second, or even a third device was awesome. Then also the convenience of sharing whatever picture I wanted to at any moment was even better. Overall I took almost 500 pictures with my Evo. About 20 videos. Some 720, some 480. The 12mp Kodak p&s? 40. That's it. And all 40 were from the 2 lounges we went to (takes WAY better near no light pictures). Kodak Zi8? Only about 5 videos. Obviously both dedicated devices would have taken better quality pictures and videos, especially the Zi8. But it wasn't a question of quality. Like I said, the quality of the Evo's pictures were really good. It was convenience. I actually developed a bunch of the pictures and nobody can believe that they were taken from my phone. Granted, with a few of the pictures I had to tweak the settings, but I knew what I had to tweak so it only took a few seconds. And it didn't happen as often as I thought it would take. Here's about 20 pictures I pulled from my large collection. There not necessarily the best pictures, but most of my pictures were personal. There weren't that many pictures that didn't have me or my fiance. So these are what I would say are some of the best non personal pictures I can pull out of the collection. Thoughts, comments, feel free!! BUT for the love of God.. keep it civil. Yes I know there are phones that could have taken better pictures, but that's not the point of this thread so please no nonsense like we've seen in some recent threads....
(JetBlue is AWESOME)
view from my room
Panoramic of the room
It's not as blue as it seems. Even with the p&2 and Zi8 the black lights was messing with the sensor, not sure why
(JetBlue is AWESOME)
view from my room
Panoramic of the room
It's not as blue as it seems. Even with the p&2 and Zi8 the black lights was messing with the sensor, not sure why
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