Zoom burst technique is a great way to inject excitement and movement into your photos, and they also enable you to create dazzling abstract effects. A great slow-shutter technique for injecting more excitement and movement into your photos is the zoom burst. This involves zooming a lens with a manual zoom ring from one extreme of its focal length range to the other, during a long, manually timed exposure. The resulting Image is characterized by an explosion of blurred light streaks radiating from a sharper central subject, giving the impression of movement towards the camera.

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Canon Powershot A85 costs little more than the average 4-megapixel snapshot camera, yet it has a wealth of high-end photographic features and the backing of one of the most respected names in the camera industry. The A85 isn’t just inexpensive, it’s practical, too. At a time when more and more makers are going over to SD card storage, the A85 sticks to Compact Flash memory cards, which are still the cheapest around and available in the largest capacities. It runs on a guartet of readily available AA cells, too, and performs well using ordinary alkalines. This digital camera can take up to 140 shots on a set of alkalines according to the CIPA standard and, using Canon’s own testing criteria, this increases to shots (and a massive 800 shots, if you use the optical viewfinder rather than the LCD). Canon’s A series is rapidly developing into a high-value, highly-specified range. It started wi the 3.2-megapixel A70, then came the 4MP A80 and now they’ve been superseded by the revised A75 and ASS imodeis, respectively.
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