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G1X underlines my poor photography skills!

Started Aug 10, 2012 | Discussions thread
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Rodehall Junior Member • Posts: 45
G1X underlines my poor photography skills!

I have had a G1X for about 5 months now and used it quite extensively in landscape, people. portrait and street scenarios in all sorts of different lighting situations. I have been an enthuastic amateur for quite a few years (days when darkroom was the only way and Lightroom was years away!) I also use a Nikon D300 with 17-55mm 2.8 Nikkor for similar types of photography. I have to say that I have become very lazy with my G1X. How so? Well it seems that if I just set it to AUTO I regulary get great / better pictures, than when I spend extra time trying to be clever with more manual settings. Its point and shoot intellegence seems extremely good in a very high proportion of situations, much more than with any other P&S I have used. (Was a happy G9 user too.) I realise this probably says more about me than the G1X! The only real issue which continues to irk me is the poor "macro" mode which "should be called "close-up" mode. Switching between macro and normal mode a lot can be a pain when taking portrait / people shots, but as this is taken care of in AUTO mode as well, it probably gives me another reason to choose AUTO!

Canon PowerShot G9 Nikon D300
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