World’s Most Expensive Flag Pole

Shot with the Nikon P-300 at f4.5, 1/1000, and ISO 160, here is a photo of what has to be the world’s most expensive and elaborate flag pole.

I was driving around and just happened to notice this crane place was using one of their cranes for a flag pole (see below for the rest of the picture) and just could not pass up this photo opportunity. I happened to have my little Nikon P-300 with me as I often do so I just pulled over and took the shot.

That is of course one of the great things about having a great little camera like the P-300. It’s just so handy. There have been a few film cameras like that too, over the years. I once had a Canon Sure Shot AF-35mm Zoom camera that was pretty handy.   

Not quite as shirt-pocket small as the P-300, it had a sharp zoom lens, auto everything including one of the first effective auto-focus system and it was a lot easier to carry around than my SLR (with 3 lenses and huge flash). I still have a Canon Snappy LX-II but there’s no comparison between that inexpensive little zone-focus rangefinder and the original Sure Shot precursor to all the sophisticated digital Sure Shots Canon has on the market today. You can see pictures of both the Nikon P-300 and the Canon Snappy LX-II on the left side bar of my blog page under the “My Toys” heading.

Lest we forget, the Sure Shot wasn’t the only such camera of course. It was just one of the first such cameras and the one I happened to buy at the time. Almost all the major camera manufacturers came out with their own version of a fully automatic, auto-focus rangefinder, and most of them were quite good. In today’s digital universe the Nikon P-300 more than fills that need for me.