We visited the Valley Of The Kings and the Valley Of The Queens when we were in Egypt cruising on the Royal Viking in December and took lots of photos using both our new Lumix digital camera and our iPhone. Both cameras are excellent for different reasons.
I bought the Lumix, (model DMC-TZ6) at Manchester Airport’s Dixon’s shop on the way out to Egypt after one of the sales guys, who was a really enthusiastic photographer, showed me a portfolio of his own photos taken with the same model. They were taken in the Lake District and had been enlarged and the level of detail was fantastic. So I bought the camera there and then.
It’s been great and very easy to use. It has a 12 x optical zoom which means you can “snatch” portraits without the “model” being aware of the photo being taken. Plus you can edit the photos on the camera itself and crop and re-size your photos. I’ve since had one enlarged to 30 x 20 inches at Staples and printed on canvas and it looks great.
The other “camera” I took with me was my iPhone. I’m a mad fan of iPhones and cant’ recommend them enough. The inbuilt camera is great for grabbing quick photographs and as long as you hold it really steady you can get great results. There are also loads of great iPhone Apps available for next to nothing too so it’s a great “extra” camera to have in your arsenal when travelling. I took some great panoramic photos using the iPhone which I would have found less easy to do with the Lumix.
Anyway, to finish, here is a photo of me at the Valley Of The Queens, taken by Barbara on the Lumix. I could really crop it tightly and have much more detail of any portion of the photo but I have left it as wide as possible to try and give you a sense of the scale of the location.
I’ll add some iPhone photos over the coming weeks.
