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08/31/13 Fujifilm X100SThis is my better half laughing at me while I try to get the shot. The camera was set to auto WB as the lighting was very difficult. From the right I had daylight coming in through the open door. In the background I had a yellow/orange spot (upper left) and behind me I had white spots to accentuate the art being presented. I let the camera do it's thing and I do believe it did a better job than I ever could. Did I mention the sharpness? 950
X100S Focal Length: 23 mm Aperture: f/5.6 Exposure Time: 1/60 sec ISO: 2000 08/30/13 Fujifilm X100SI think I've said this before but I'll just say it again. These Fujifilm files from the X-Trans sensor produces the best files for monochrome conversion bar none. If I'm going out specifically to get some B&W images I'll take the Fujifilm cameras. Look at the clarity, tones and sharpness in the image above. I doubt if I'd gotten this file from any other system. Many might try to prove me wrong here but these files just work for me. I have problem from other systems converting the files and it takes me ages to get the look I'm after, but not with the Fuji files. Again, it just works for me. 963
X100S Focal Length: 23 mm Aperture: f/4.0 Exposure Time: 1/40 sec ISO: 200 08/29/13 Fujifilm X100SThe detail here is very impressive. I'm not surprised that one certain pro photographer has named this camera as his alltime favourite and has dumped all his other cameras. 925
X100S Focal Length: 23 mm Aperture: f/2.0 Exposure Time: 1/70 sec ISO: 200 08/28/13 Fujifilm X100SI sain in my last post that I find it difficult to use this fixed 35mm lens camera and I still hold to that. What keeps me using this camera though are the great files I get out of it. They impress me every time I look at them. The colour is great, the rendition you get from this lens is superb and the great clarity and sharpness is up there with the best of them. I had a three hour stop over at a certain airport not long ago so I just went around snapping away. Nothing in paticular, just some things I though might be interesting for my holiday journals. There has been very little processing done on these files, apart from raw development. The colours here are spot on. The blue of the chairs and the red in the Lavazza advert are exactly as I saw them. I'm impressed. 923
X100S Focal Length: 23 mm Aperture: f/2.0 Exposure Time: 1/140 sec ISO: 200 08/27/13 Fujifilm X100SI used to take the Panasonic LX5 or the Panasonic GF1 as my onboard camera when travelling. I say that because I don't try and stuff my cameras into my pockets. I find that the cameras are too big for that or to put it another way, my pockets are too small. I always have a rucksack with me when travelling so that is where they go. I'm still having problems dealing with these fixed focal length cameras being used to zoom lenses and I'm still trying to train my eye for this 35mm equivalent focal length. I find it really wide and often ask myself how do people shoot with even wider lenses. I'm thinking you have to go in very close to use these. It just isn't the way I shoot. I suppose I'm also too shy to do this type of thing. Just trying to turn the tables around. How would I feel if some idiot would come up to me and stuff a camera in my face. I don't think I'd like that so I tend not to do it myself. I tend to use this camera in a documentry type of photography. Get more of my surroundings in to show a little more of what's going on. Any tips out there, please send me a mail on how to get to frips with these wider focal lengths. I'm always trying to learn more about this art form. You have to keep on learning, keeps the mind active. 935
X100S Focal Length: 23 mm Aperture: f/8.0 Exposure Time: 1/480 sec ISO: 200 07/09/13 Nikon 1 V1 - 1 Nikkor 10-30 f3.5-5.6 VRI stated yesterday that it was going to be the last post about the V1 and the 10-30 f3.5-5.6 VR lens. Well, I decided to make one last post. I will be stating my likes and dislikes about the system and lenses available as of this post. Don't forget, I take some time in posting these things so there could well be developments in this area even before this post comes out. Likes: Dislikes:
At present, this is a bright light camera although high ISO is ok. The mode selector wheel at the top right of the camera (rear) gets in my way. I keep turning it unintentionally all the time. It does frustrate me but I think I'll get used to it (or I'll super glue it or something :-) ). Because I got into this system pretty late Nikon decided to bring another flash on the market, namely the SB-N7, which is supposed to be better and works well with the V2 I believe. The problem with that flash is that it takes its own battery and that is just something more to carry around. I've been scouring the market for the original flash for the V1, the SB-N5 and I've managed to get on but at a horrendous price. It cost me nearly as much as the V1 with the kit lens. I had to try one because it's really small, tilts and swivels and the best thing of all, it takes it's power from the camera battery. I'll let you know how that when I've had time to use it. The 30-110 f3.8-5.6 VR lens is a little gem and much better than the 10-30 f3.4-5.6 lens in my opinion. The 18.5 f1.8 is also a gem and suits me a lot better than the 10 f2.8 although that gives reasonable results too. So far the lenses for this system are reasonably priced apart from the 32 f1.2 that has just come onto the market. I'm betting that that lens will also come down in price pretty soon, so I'll just wait for that to happen and purchase one then. 986
NIKON 1 V1 Focal Length: 30 mm Aperture: f/8.0 Exposure Time: 1/250 sec ISO: 100 • Nikon • CX • V1 • 10-30 f3.5-5.6
07/08/13 Nikon 1 V1 - 1 Nikkor 10-30 f3.5-5.6 VRI was amazed when I ran the above image through LR4.4. The dynamic range is very good and sharpness is there too. When I import my raw files into LR I make sure that they are all zeroed which means that the files look flat and lack contrast. Totally different to how the jpg files look...overcooked. 1007
NIKON 1 V1 Focal Length: 10 mm Aperture: f/8.0 Exposure Time: 1/125 sec ISO: 100 • Nikon • CX • V1 • 10-30 f3.5-5.6
07/07/13 Nikon 1 V1 - 1 Nikkor 10-30 f3.5-5.6 VRAfter seeing images made with the 18 f1.8 lens and again looking up the prices, I decided that this would be a good lens for portraits. It gives you an equivalent focal length of approximately 50mm on a full frame camera. Not my favourite focal length as I prefer the 80-135 range and sometimes even longer than that, but that's all there is at the time of this post. 1131
NIKON 1 V1 Focal Length: 30 mm Aperture: f/8.0 Exposure Time: 1/125 sec ISO: 100 • Nikon • V1 • CX • 10-30 f3.5-5.6
07/06/13 Nikon 1 V1 - 1 Nikkor 10-30 f3.5-5.6 VROne of the advantages of these smaller format sensors is the increased DOF you get. This is a great advantage for all landscape photographers where depth of field is normally of critical importance. That is not to say that shallow DOF isn't possible with this system, it is.
The smaller sensor gives you a multiplication factor that you have to use to compare your lenses to the 35mm format (if you're inclined to do this sort of thing). This means, for instance, the Nikkor 1 30-110 f3.8-5.6 VR lens can be compared to an 80-300 lens on a full frame camera (approximately). For the younger photographers this might not mean much because they haven't used full frame cameras, but for people like myself, I like to convert these values to the full frame equivalent because then I know what to take with me when going out on a shoot. I still think in 35mm terms when it comes to lenses, so I suppose that just shows my age to all. In time and after using the system a lot more I won't have to do this because I will know what the different lenses will give me in terms of field of view. 986
NIKON 1 V1 Focal Length: 18.9 mm Aperture: f/5.6 Exposure Time: 1/320 sec ISO: 100 • Nikon • CX • V1 • 10-30 f3.5-5.6
07/05/13 Nikon 1 V1 - 1 Nikkor 10-30 f3.5-5.6 VRAfter seeing what the 30-110 and the 10 f2.8 lenses could do I decided that my 10-30 wasn't really all that good. So I got another copy very cheaply off the Internet and set out one sunny afternoon to do some test shots. My test shots tend to be rather boring and mundane and are meant for me to test out these tools. They do mean something to me and do tell me a lot about the lens because of what and how I photograph the world around me.
This second copy is much better than the first and is a keeper. I am now much happier with the system and the more I work with it the better the images seem. I think people would find it difficult to tell the difference between these images and any other camera on the market today. I'm not saying that you can replace a Nikon D88 with the Nikon V1 but images posted on the Internet are of course much smaller and the difference cannot really be seen.
Printing is another matter, especially when you start to print big. I wouldn't start thinking about printing the V1 images at poster size, I don't think the camera was meant for that but up to a size of say 30 x 20 centimetre prints there would be no noticeable difference. This is just my opinion of course and yours may differ from mine. 978
NIKON 1 V1 Focal Length: 30 mm Aperture: f/5.6 Exposure Time: 1/320 sec ISO: 100 • Nikon • V1 • CX • 10-30 f3.5-5.6
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