Galloway National Park Part 2

Still doing my PP from a dirty weekend in Galloway....me the wife and dog got fillthy, rain...wind...mud...etc





3 shot portrait panorama...



Same but landscape



More to come, I hope you like seeing what this camera can do. All the reviews in the world are irrelevant if the camera has a niche in your life that simply fits!! The more I get used to it the more comfortable I am with it.... it's different - so what Some of my shots were handheld at 1/8 sec and were perfect..to me that's incredible VR (see b&w waterfall, I'm sure that was 1/8). The lattitude in the RAW files is fantastic and the metering is just FAB....

Pete
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beautiful. thanx for sharing your trip with us

Very nice set of photos - a great demo of the capabilities of this little camera. One comment: in the B&W waterfall, I love the detail, but I would have placed the waterfall a bit less centrally...

Joe

Simply perfect! Can't imagine why there are poeple who hate that camera.
The B&W is gorgeous, but I like the panorama too!

Martin

I completely agree Joe I have done that with the portrait shots of the same scene but I wanted landscape too. Trees and shrubs etc on either side of the shot (not in photo) led to a 'central waterfall'... I didn't want to crop either. I'll pop up a portrait shot later.

Pete
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Well Techno you've convinced me! I have just ordered one this morning! My Canon G11 will be winging it's way onto Ebay, and if the quality is OK, my Nikon DSLR will be following but without the lenses as I've also ordered the FT1 adapter as well...

Mick..

ukmick said:

Well Techno you've convinced me! I have just ordered one this morning! My Canon G11 will be winging it's way onto Ebay, and if the quality is OK, my Nikon DSLR will be following but without the lenses as I've also ordered the FT1 adapter as well...

Mick..

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Good for you Mick As I have mentioned the camera has its niche customers. I recognised what it did well...the metering, focus and horsepower when required. That put in such a diminutive package was exactly what I wanted. So for me at least, it just works. The controls are a fiddle and it's easy to accidentally change a setting with the paddle switch. But once you have been bitten a couple of times you quickly start developing a motor skill and you cognitively start to pick things up. As an analogy I remember when learning to drive and changing gear was a faff...now I don't even think as cognitive skills are embedded. The zooms ensure I frame properly and vastly reduce the need to crop. That means I can go to A3+ printers and not be worried. Future firmware improvements and lenses mean a rosy future too.

Here's a B&W I just finished in PP.



I owned a D300s for quite some time and shot at Galloway a couple of years ago. I can tell you that at face value the files from this camera appear no different to my old D300s... however, the metering of the V1 has definitely been superior.

Pete

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Love your landscape shots. Nice conversion into B&W.

Martin

Images 1 and 3 are very "tactile". There is something definitely "film-ish" in the way that landscapes are rendered by this camera. Like you and others who have commented here the camera "speaks for itself" more eloquently than anything a reviewer can write. And what it has to say is superb!

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More to come, I hope you like seeing what this camera can do. All the reviews in the world are irrelevant if the camera has a niche in your life that simply fits!! The more I get used to it the more comfortable I am with it.... it's different - so what Some of my shots were handheld at 1/8 sec and were perfect..to me that's incredible VR (see b&w waterfall, I'm sure that was 1/8). The lattitude in the RAW files is fantastic and the metering is just FAB....

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A very nice set