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Why I love my Polaroid X530

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Cool little camera Rick. I beta tested it but never bought one - probably should have.

Best regards,

Lin
 
Wow, that's a blast from the past...

I got to try an x530 for a few days, but had to send it back. Ironically an image from that camera is the largest I've ever had anything printed in a magazine (legal sized full page!).
 
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Yes you sure got your money's worth out of that camera. Some great old people shots - **** Lyon, Baudoiuin Prove, Laurence, Jim Kofron, yours truly and some others




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rick decker said:
rick decker wrote:

Yes you sure got your money's worth out of that camera. Some great old people shots - **** Lyon, Baudoiuin Prove, Laurence, Jim Kofron, yours truly and some others

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Hi Rick!




Great to see someone still loving his. For me, it was the only Foveon-Camera I ever got rid of twice... ;) Never warmed up on mine with the abysmal battery life... I still have some old X shots in my gallery as well though!




Regards,

Alex
 
When first looking at these images, I found that they seemed to my eye similar to the Foveon sensor and what it produces, which is very pleasing images (Emotion and Depth are two adjectives I assign to Foveon look).

I got my first DSLR back in college with an SD14 (circa 2008-2009) and that is when I joined your merry band. After a little research, I see the reason that this produces Foveon-like images is because it uses a Foveon. I definitely learned something new today, because all I thought the Foveon had been used in were Sigma cameras and a few specific-purposed industrial equipment. Were their other consumer products that used a Foveon sensor?




To the photos posted: I love the third photo of the resort and the pool with the reflection, the composition is excellent and is probably my favorite one of the ones you posted Rick.
 
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I really like the colors on the photos even for a camera of this caliber. Foveon color and clarity for sure! How much PP went along with the photos If I may ask.

Going to take a trip down Ebay for one of these! :)
 
The cool thing about Death Valley is that it's a great reference, it always looks the same so you can really get a feel in differences between cameras over a long period of time. That and if you've been there enough you can also use your memory to some extent to examine photos...
 
amdme127 said:
amdme127 wrote:

I got my first DSLR back in college with an SD14 (circa 2008-2009) and that is when I joined your merry band. After a little research, I see the reason that this produces Foveon-like images is because it uses a Foveon. I definitely learned something new today, because all I thought the Foveon had been used in were Sigma cameras and a few specific-purposed industrial equipment. Were their other consumer products that used a Foveon sensor?
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This was the only consumer camera not made by Sigma that used the Foveon sensor, although interestingly SPP can still process those photos because it uses the same format...

Believe me, after you've used an x530 you will appreciate how much better a job Sigma did making cameras around the sensors.
 
Hello!

Honestly, don't (unless you want to play around a little). Other than the sensor, the X is a really cheaply constructed camera with lot's of quirks. I bought one twice for the sensor alone. If you don't own one allready, I'd strongly suggest buying one of the new compacts right away (the X might be a bad choice for first Foveon camera; that said, I sometimes enjoy my Nikon D1H or Oly E100Rs as well, but I wouldn't recommend getting one to anyone as of today).

Just my personal view.

Regards,

Alex
 
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1st 2 JPEG's OOC. Others auto X3Lab and no other PP. You have seen the best of the best. The zoom is soft at the longer end. Camera tends to be noisy above ISO100. A number of functions in the manual were never implemented. Talk about a long learning curve, this camera has it and I haven't had the patience to figure it out. Still it produces some very nice images (at times).
 
Kendall Helmstetter Gelner said:
Kendall Helmstetter Gelner wrote:

The cool thing about Death Valley is that it's a great reference, it always looks the same so you can really get a feel in differences between cameras over a long period of time. That and if you've been there enough you can also use your memory to some extent to examine photos...
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jozhua said:
jozhua wrote:

I really like the colors on the photos even for a camera of this caliber. Foveon color and clarity for sure! How much PP went along with the photos If I may ask.

Going to take a trip down Ebay for one of these! :)
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little editing on mine, basically just like I'd edit any X3F RAW file. And SPP still supports the x530 RAW.

I too would recommend a DP2 or DP1 as 'first' Foveon camera; SD15 as first Sigma DSLR.

The x530 is mainly interesting rather as a historical footnote, not as a really practical camera to use. Rocks and stationary subjects, it's good. Anything that moves is a different story LOL

Best regards, Sandy
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/sandyfleischmann (current)
 
Kendall Helmstetter Gelner said:
Kendall Helmstetter Gelner wrote:
Kendall Helmstetter Gelner said:
amdme127 wrote:

I got my first DSLR back in college with an SD14 (circa 2008-2009) and that is when I joined your merry band. After a little research, I see the reason that this produces Foveon-like images is because it uses a Foveon. I definitely learned something new today, because all I thought the Foveon had been used in were Sigma cameras and a few specific-purposed industrial equipment. Were their other consumer products that used a Foveon sensor?
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This was the only consumer camera not made by Sigma that used the Foveon sensor, although interestingly SPP can still process those photos because it uses the same format...

Believe me, after you've used an x530 you will appreciate how much better a job Sigma did making cameras around the sensors.
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