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Started Jul 12, 2014 | User reviews thread
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Hornbrille
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On red flowers, green grass and AF

For better results with saturated red you should use the portrait mode. It gives much more subtle results for red/orange tones.

And you should never photograph saturated colors in bright sunlight. Use a diffusor or stand between the sun and the flower. This is especially important if the leaves or blossoms of a plant are somehow transparent. DP2Q is no exception to other digital cameras here.

The green grass might look much better with landscape or vivid color mode but I suspect a polarizer would be the better solution. Again this is not a problem of your camera but of the overall harsh sunlight causing reflections on the individual leaves of grass.

Concerning AF on mirrorless cameras with contrast detection you must know that it's impossible for them to focus on something else than the currently assigned focus point. This means you either changed camera direction or your distance to the red rose after focus lock. This happens and one has to be aware of it. Chimping helps. You need to press the review button and the center thumb button for a 100% review of the focus point area. Press the center button for fitting the image or the shutter release button (half down) for leaving the review mode. At least this is how it works on the DP Merrill cameras.

On resolution and speed: you can't have both.

Uwe 8-)

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