As some of you may already know from my other thread, I had been looking for a new compact camera for a while, and had finally settled on the the Panasonic Lumix LX5. I only got the thing in the mail from Amazon a few days ago, and almost immediately went out shooting with it. Here are some pics over the two or three days that I spent fiddling with it. I'm still learning all the features, but the one that I'm absolutely in love with is the ability to bracket three shots by up to 3EV over and under. The last two pics were done in that way and then fed into a freeware HDR program. Appreciate all viewer suggestions, tips, and comments Note: The HDR photographs were created from three sequential hand held bracketed images taken in quick succession by the camera. However, no matter how steady I am, it is almost impossible not to move a little from one picture to the next. Hence, HDR photography is nearly always done with the recording unit mounted onto an immovable platform (normally a tripod). I just did this with the hand held shots to see if it could be done, and just to see the results; so please forgive the ghosting from the slightly non aligned image layers. All pics were post processed using Panasonic's native program SilkyPix Developer Studio SE v3.1, and the HDR shots were combined using the freeware (basic) version of Full Dynamic Range Tools v2.4.0. Some of the images were further corrected for barrel or perspective distortion.
just learn all the features, it will take ages. i have a cannon cam, had it for a few years, now and then i manage to find options i have never seen before.
What so funny about that is, the feeling that one gets upon a discovery that, "Oh shit... you mean it can do that too?" LOL... What impressed me most about this camera thus far is the ability to auto bracket. I remember the old school days of doing so with a manual camera and changing the aperture with each shot, starting from one stop over. It was a pain in the behind but it ensured a usable negative. Nowadays, everything seems so easy; what used to require days of darkroom work can now be literally done with a few mouse clicks.
wow the camera is goood...!!!... i thought you live in the states..??...the supermarkets look ubbbber like ya in hk or something..!
LOL... I do live in New York City, but the neighborhood (historically, the town of Flushing, now simply referred to as the neighborhood of Flushing within New York City), is roughly half Asian. That means that there are lots of Chinese streets, shops, and people. In many ways, when you walk out into the street it is very much like HK or Macau. One feels the European influence, but understands that one is in a distinctly Chinese city. As for the Lumix LX5, I am absolutely in love with this camera. Considering that it is about the size of a cigarette package, the amount of things that it can do is simply astounding. I'm discovering new and better things about it every minute it seems
want want want... tho lately i've been having more and more wants hahaha must agree that a p&s so much more convenient than slr maybe it's time to find a nice man-bag for that slr and ipad and everything else... hahaha
After so many years of carrying "man bags" knapsacks, backpacks, et cetera; I've come to the point that if it doesn't fit into a pocket or can reasonably latch onto my belt, I'm not taking it unless I'm driving. Speaking of which, this is an intriguing device: Vivitar 3" Tripod ...or how about the Manfrotto ModoPocket
Exactly the same thought that came to mind. I for sure thought this was HK with the park/nature shots. Nice camera ralph! Almost makes me jealous, but I'm not exactly a camera person so even this one is already beyond my scope of knowledge o-o!
I'm pretty sure the resolution can be higher. It's a 10.1MP camera after all. Though as to the resolution of a 10.1mp camera... No idea.
Yeah, didn't you folks know that they moved HK to New York, LOL...? Just kidding, lots of Chinese in NYC now, especially in Flushing, New York (the city's second Chinatown). You know, the beauty of this camera is, that you can set it on automatic and it will take really great pics already. However, for those that want to play and tweak settings, it has a lot of those options as well, which is what makes this into a real jewel. IMHO, it's the kind of camera that even a neophyte can get to grow into. According to HP's Megapixel to Print info site the size of the print that can be produced from a 10.1 MP camera is roughly 11x14 if you're going to use standard photo sized prints. But, here's an interesting read if you have the time: The MegaPixel Myth The author discusses why megapixels really don't matter any more, and MP count, in today's reality, is more marketing hype than photographic importance. My next "mission" with this camera, is to convince the Missus of the "necessity" of the 0.75X Wide Angle Conversion lens (~ $175 USD) in order to render it as an effective 18MM equivalent objective lens; that is, a extreme super wide angle (as the 24MM is already considered pretty wide). But for now, the best that I can do is an Extreme Super Wide Angle effect, with a stitched panoramic: Station, Upper Platform, QueensBoro Plaza, Long Island City, New York. Taken 28 JUN 2011. View is from the uppermost platform, at the east end, looking southwest. The Green building seen directly (to the right of the construction) is One Court Square, otherwise known as the "CitiCorp Building" (which is in Queens, and not to be mistaken with the CitiCorp Center in Manhattan; and no, neither is in Hong Kong either). For those that were interested in the resolution of the camera vis a vis the MP count, what's interesting about this stitched picture is that the original uploaded image is aprox 8700 x 2700 Pixels (or roughly 23MP) but Photobucket automatically renders down large images into space saving sizes. According to Photobucket, the "original" size is now only 800 x 246 Pixels, LOL... (or roughly 10% of the real image size). The other shots in the first post are also about 9.9 MP in overall size, but Photobucket only shows them as being less than one MP in size. Thus, the camera is actually considered to be of fairly decent resolution and capable of making really good photographic prints, though on the internet, it may be sometimes hard to realize it. Below is an 1024 x 768 sized image taken from the exact same picture to show the actual 1:1 resolution at the time of upload:
Thanks, and that's a Horseshoe Crab, considered one of the planet's oldest living creatures (and what I personally suspect was the likely inspiration for the Face Hugger in the Aliens series of horror films, LOL...) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_crab Not my pic, found on the net...
the horse shoe crab reminds me of kabutops from Pokemon lol. I thought they were some kind of crustacean like brine shrimps or those triops that you can buy from Argos, they look similar but according to the history it doesn't seem like they have the same relative.
