4573/4583

With 90% of this project behind me, I've decided to add my IR-converted Panasonic FZ18 to the mix.

3616/3617

I originally worried that it would be hard to tell if I had used the TS3 or S100 to take a particular photo.

3075/3084

Yeah, but it's iso6400.

3028/3030

Yes, this is a complete set-up. It's a self-timer shot.

This is also the first time the Panasonic TS3 has made an appearance in over five hundred photos. It was an extremely windy and rough day, and I wasn't about to risk the S100 by perching it on some precarious rocks. Besides, the Canon had done its little trick with the battery meter where it reads full when I'm at home and then flashes red when I take my next photo with it.

After becoming used to the S100's image quality, seeing the TS3 again was a bit of a shock. Now I remember why I used the 'effects' modes so much.

2679/2679

I wish I could remember how long it has been since we had seven-digit dialing – or a Toronto Fire Department.

It's since been renamed.

Either way, I doubt a P&S could take this photo at iso6400 back then.

2570/2570

I've been loving the S100's ability to create long exposures, which my TS3 just can't do, but the Canon camera has some serious issues with being able to focus under these conditions.

2501/2501

It only seemed right that the first photo from the Canon S100 would be of the slightly battered Panasonic TS3. The plastic bezel around the lens shows the most abuse, but the aluminum body has a few nicks in it as well.

While the S100 has much better image quality and controls, it certainly can't take a hit the way the TS3 can. I also prefer the Panasonic for its lens – not so much the quality, but the fact that it doesn't extend. That makes it much easier to take in and out of a pocket, even when the camera is on; the flat front also means that it's not obvious that the camera is on when I'm carrying it.

I'm looking forward to seeing what difference the new camera will make for the second half of this project.

2500/2500

This is post number three hundred and one, which means three hundred photos posted over two hundred and ninety-nine days. While this is the half-way point in the project's run to five thousand photos uploaded to the supporting gallery, I've actually taken over six thousand pictures with my TS3.

So far I'd say that it has been a success.

Now I'm making a slight change. From this point on I won't be using the TS3 exclusively; instead most of the photos will probably be taken with the little beastie pictured here. (and naturally I have an accompanying Canon S100 review.)

The TS3 will undoubtedly make appearances again once the water thaws and the fountains start running again. But for now the days are very short and I'm looking for more creative control.

I've devised an elaborate way to identify the origin of the photos. All of my TS3 photos have been posted between noon and 1pm, so all of my S100 photos will be posted between 1pm and 2pm. That makes an easy and obvious way to distinguish between the two, but just in case, I'll also tag each photo accordingly.

2446/2455

Experimenting with long exposures. The only option is to use the "starry sky" mode, with a minimum shutter speed of fifteen seconds, and no other control options.

But I do like this photo, and can't be too hard on the TS3. Later in the night it toppled forward and slid face-down along a granite boulder on its way to a two-foot fall to the frozen ground. The front handgrip has some small scratches that are deep enough to show silver metal through the orange colour coat, and the lens bezel has a few new nicks, but otherwise the camera is just fine.

1914/1914

This is one of the many photos that I've taken with my TS3 for a review. While it doesn't have the best image quality, and the eye-fi card I use in it is often a nuisance, it's still the most convenient combination to use for quick work.

I edit all of my TS3 photos on my laptop, and now I can go for days without bothering to use my desktop computer at all.

1637/1637

I do really like the grainy black and white preset on the TS3, but since I've recently bought a similarly-sized Olympus XA to use B&W film in, I'm really not sure how much I'll use it from now on.

1615/1615

I was trying to see if the flash could catch falling drops of rain.

It couldn't.