I got the X10 last Friday, literally a couple of hours before leaving for an extended weekend in New York City - my favorite destination to take photographs. I also had my X100 and EPL3 with a few lenses, but spent the vast majority of the time shooting with the X10. And its a keeper. I wasn't sure after the first day or two, but after getting to know it, I like it a lot. I do a lot of street photography and its a very good street camera. Its not quite as handy as a Ricoh GRD3 or GXR with their "snap-focus" mode allowing for really quick and easy transitions between zone focus and auto-focus, but its quick enough to get into zone focus for a session of street shooting - you just can't go back and forth as quickly. I shot mostly in 28 or 35mm modes on the zoom, using it essentially as a couple of primes on the street. But then for my more touristy, scenic shots, I took advantage of the full range of the zoom. I don't usually shoot with zooms, but this one is fast enough throughout the range that I enjoyed it and found it quite useful, even if a small percentage was shot with the longer portions of it.
I shot mostly in full resolution and and mostly in velvia for scenics and Astia on the street. I set up EXR - DR priority as the C1 setting on the mode dial and EXR - SN priority as C2. When the situation called for either, I'd just switch the mode dial to one of those and let the camera make all of the exposure decisions. It does it quite well and I don't understand the finer points of EXR well enough yet to want to shoot EXR in the PASM modes. Maybe someday I'll learn it well enough to just switch resolution and make the decisions myself, but not yet. And I'm very happy with the results the camera provides in those modes. And, I'd rather shoot in full res anytime I can, so the EXR settings are reserved for situations where its clearly needed...
The camera doesn't produce the sharpest photos I've ever seen (even for a compact), but they're fine and I can probably tweak the settings a bit, and the colors and low light and overall flexibility are better than any other compact I've used (I've owned an S90 and LX5 and still have a GRD3, but that's more of a specialty camera). And, importantly, its just a joy to shoot with, as is the X100. I'm a raw shooter with every other camera I own or have owned, but the Fuji jpegs are so good I'm happy to stay with them on both the X10 and X100. I'd rather trade a little off the long end of the zoom for a 24mm equivalent at the long end, but 28 is my typical walk-around focal length anyway, so I see in this FOV pretty naturally. Anyway, enough words, here are some photos, so far all processed in snapseed on the ipad or just straight from the camera. Most of my stuff is processed in Aperture and then either Silver or Color Efex Pro, but on the road, snapseed works well enough.
This is Louis Mendes, a street portrait artist well known around NYC - he does street portraits with a polaroid type back on this big old press camera and sells them to tourists on the spot. He took one of me - I took one of him. This one is better because he's a FAR better model!
A couple of EXR shots - the first in DR priority:
This one is SN priority:
-Ray
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/20889767@N05/collections/72157626204295198/
I shot mostly in full resolution and and mostly in velvia for scenics and Astia on the street. I set up EXR - DR priority as the C1 setting on the mode dial and EXR - SN priority as C2. When the situation called for either, I'd just switch the mode dial to one of those and let the camera make all of the exposure decisions. It does it quite well and I don't understand the finer points of EXR well enough yet to want to shoot EXR in the PASM modes. Maybe someday I'll learn it well enough to just switch resolution and make the decisions myself, but not yet. And I'm very happy with the results the camera provides in those modes. And, I'd rather shoot in full res anytime I can, so the EXR settings are reserved for situations where its clearly needed...
The camera doesn't produce the sharpest photos I've ever seen (even for a compact), but they're fine and I can probably tweak the settings a bit, and the colors and low light and overall flexibility are better than any other compact I've used (I've owned an S90 and LX5 and still have a GRD3, but that's more of a specialty camera). And, importantly, its just a joy to shoot with, as is the X100. I'm a raw shooter with every other camera I own or have owned, but the Fuji jpegs are so good I'm happy to stay with them on both the X10 and X100. I'd rather trade a little off the long end of the zoom for a 24mm equivalent at the long end, but 28 is my typical walk-around focal length anyway, so I see in this FOV pretty naturally. Anyway, enough words, here are some photos, so far all processed in snapseed on the ipad or just straight from the camera. Most of my stuff is processed in Aperture and then either Silver or Color Efex Pro, but on the road, snapseed works well enough.
This is Louis Mendes, a street portrait artist well known around NYC - he does street portraits with a polaroid type back on this big old press camera and sells them to tourists on the spot. He took one of me - I took one of him. This one is better because he's a FAR better model!
A couple of EXR shots - the first in DR priority:
This one is SN priority:
-Ray
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/20889767@N05/collections/72157626204295198/
