Some G9II and Oly 9-18mm shots

It's never really a good idea to take both a new camera AND lens out at the same time. If you do, you run the chance that the idiosyncracies of each may amplify the other...

It was lovely out this afternoon, so I neither had to bundle up nor wear gloves outside, so off I went to see what I could round up for images.

In terms of getting used to the camera? Every camera model, even of the same brand, does slightly different things with each type of metering, and you have to get used to their behavior to get the best auto exposure results in any given situation. I have not had the G9II long enough to get that totally sorted, so I ended up with rather more than a few underexposed shots today.

On top of that, the Oly 9-18mm is a totally new lens to me (just got it last week), and it definitely is an underexposer...when compared to my Oly 12mm f2.0 and PL 9mm, it very consistently, (on Aperture priority), gave me slightly underexposed shots on my first tests last week, and it also behaved that way today. (I do not think there is anything at all wrong with it, by the way, I just think it's how it behaves.)

So, the combo of a camera which I am not yet sure of its exposure behavior AND an underexposing lens, ended up giving me a whole lot of less than perfectly exposed images today (some of them were pretty darn dark), until I checked my AE settings, and changed from (oops) AE highlight metering, to multi metering......

But, no harm, no foul. I at least got to play with the (underexposed) files to see what I could get out of them.

And, to make it even tougher, I did NOT PP the RAWS for this, I just processed the OOC JPGs, for the heck of it. (And, no NR was applied, either in the camera (NR-5) or in PP, as I don't have the software set up for that on the computer I was using).

The results? The camera, even using the underexposed JPGs did REALLY well.

And, I like the Oly 9-18mm (it's the first version) lens a lot. It's a better lens for MY purposes than the PL 9mm, as having the wide zoom vs fixed focal length wide, turns out to work better for me. Plus I like its color rendition. So, that will stay in the rotation, and the PL 9mm will get sold.

So, without further ado:

(The last two photos are the original SOOC JPG, and then the processed one, so you can see how dark the exposure really was).

The sun came out of the clouds for a few minutes, and even graced the scene with a rainbow!

No rainbow yet, but still really nice light.

No really good place to shoot this dam (it actually was partly taken down a few years ago, but we've had flooding rains recently, and it looks like some dead trees are now blocking the open sections, making what's left of it still act like a functional dam here.

Yeah, some rocks under the water. I thought they were kind of cool, so why not.

PP'd version of very underexposed shot (see next one)

Sooc jpg of prior shot. (And yes, I did clone out the dead trees on the left in the other copy).

-J