X-S1 in Bryce Canyon (8 img)

Follow up to my Zion posts... this time I took the XS1 and used JPEG + RAW on all images. I used -1/3 EC, Velvia, and tried to keep the lens between f6.4 and f8.0. All images were taken through a CPL filter to darken the sky. I uploaded all images into Capture One, determined all RAW images had more accurate colors than the JPEG images, did some minor PP (mostly highlight control) and exported them with 2048 px long side.

Received some excellent comments on my Zion post, and hope these show I learned something. Your C&C (and examples) are much appreciated. I hope to have my complete Flickr loaded later today, but internet speeds slow WAY down during the day here...

BTW, hiking down into the Canyon and then back up makes me glad not to carry my old FF DSLR with lenses equivalent to the XS1!


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Extremely Nice Captures John With Very Well Done PP :-D

Cheers from Orion

An ideal X-S1 workflow for landscape, with your good eye and capable hands. Makes me want to return there. It's been ten years since.

Contrasty landscapes have been one of the hardest challenges for me with the X-S1. These are stunning. Thank you so much for sharing them and for sharing your process.

Lisetta

Beautiful shots John, a place I now what to visit.

Now younailed it John. Beautiful colors, great blue sky,terrific composition. I told you that I always use a B+W CPL Filter in bright, sunshining days. These are great shots John. Congrats....and Thank you for taking the time to shoot them and sharing them....

Aaron...

John, I'd say you did learn something! Thanks for passing it on. These are very nice.

What happened to the horizon in #6?? (...just kidding)

Hike safely.

looks like you had a nice day for it in your other post you said

Although I am still impressed with the XS1, I find the output less attractive for landscape. If you look closely at the images (which admittedly are somewhat downsized) you'll see a softness on the foliage that I hadn't seen before. Wether its the camera or me, don't know.

So yes, the XS1 is a terrific travel camera. But less so as a landscape camera.

do you still think that

Yesterday I hiked Angel's Landing and took my GX7 with 14-140II lens. In all reality, pixel peeping both cameras doesn't show a lot of difference. When you zoom in on distant foliage in both cameras you'll see a certain amount of "fuzziness".

But the larger sensor of the GX7 does give you more latitude with image processing. If you like, all these images are in sets in my Flickr account. You can compare for yourself. But yes, I still think the XS1 makes a great travel camera.

beautiful photos. esp 1 and 5

What a gorgeous series John. The age and beauty of nature!

I like this set very well. They've got a look to them in both composition and color like those picture postcards they sell at the souvenir stand. Shots like this are the kind that you look back on and they bring the 'trip' right back to you later. I'm not going to pixel peep these, they're just very pleasant to look at and would serve most purposes quite nicely.

thanks john i will have a look later on.

Very nice photos from the X-S1. I have owned the camera for over a year now and have mostly shot photos of my son (now 14 months old).

As someone else on this thread commented, I've never looked at the X-S1 as been a good "landscape" camera but now I am thinking again. I already have a CPL filter for it but have never really experimented. These photos are a real inspiration. T

hanks for taking the time to share them here. Also especially nice to see fresh threads on a camera that has been out for a while now.