Micro 4/3 Panasonic LX / Leica D-LUX Image Thread

BB, I've been doing this series for over 35 years. I stopped at the turn of the century as I went digital and didn't like the macro type at that time. I used an M3 with the 50 Dual Range Bug Eye setup for years.
The LX5 has brought back the desire to continue... I'm just starting over again....
Thanks....don
 
Ray said:
I got the LX-5 yesterday and went out into my typical bike riding country today. And the leaves are finally getting around to changing. So I just took a few typical autumn countryside scenery shots and here are a handful. Nothing ambitious, but a chance to play with the camera a bit. I really like the 16/9 format for landscape shots - not so much for portrait oriented. The camera is a joy to use - highly intuitive, although the real acid test is when I start to play around other people, hopefully this weekend, to see how that feels.

These are jpegs, which I'm gonna be shooting until Apple gets around to supporting this camera. I did a few minor tweaks in Aperture and was impressed by how much you can do with a jpeg - not as much latitude as RAW, but I can live with it for a few months. I also wasn't really paying attention and shot these all at f 7 ish, which is a bit narrow. But I'm ok with them anyway.

-Ray

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Great compositions and wonderful captures!
 
In reply to BB....
Nah...not on the site as none are scanned...some day maybe. The new stuff will get screened over the winter and I'll start showing it next spring.....
 
A few more LX-5 images. Film mode, high DR jpegs.
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Your colors look fantastic, Javier! Can you explain to me of little brain what High DR jpegs are? Am I correct that this is an in camera setting, along with the Film mode - which I recognize?
 
Beautiful shots Ray. #2 is a gem - great colour in the two trees and balance between the vertical trees and horizontal fence.
 
Streetshooter said:
Ray, I'll tell ya...you scare the hell out of me brother....looking at your images makes me rethink the m43 gear....
your taking P&S to a whole new level.......
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Thanks Don. I've seen an awful lot of really nice shots from the LX-5, so i appreciate the compliment but.... Then again, these kinds of photos seem really easy to me. The stuff you do so well seems like a supreme challenge to me (an enjoyable one, but much more difficult and with much more sporadic results). So maybe its just a case of always appreciating the stuff you DON'T do as well more than the stuff you do. Because I look at your (and others') street work and it frankly blows my mind quite regularly and I have trouble imagining myself doing it as well. Reminds me of an old guitar playing buddy of mine. He was 10 times the guitarist I ever was, but he really liked playing with me because I approached it so differently than he did. He thought what I was doing was really interesting - I thought it was just really obvious and that what HE was doing was overwhelmingly more interesting. Perhaps there's a pattern here?

Assuming I like it for more urban photograph, as I assume I will based on its quickness and hyperfocal set-up, this could become my go to camera. I'm sure I'd still keep the ep2 for specialized situations, like telephoto, UWA, and low light. But if I end up grabbing the LX5 most of the time, I could see letting go of a couple of lenses. The 14-150 would be a lot less relevant and the 17, which I use mostly for street stuff, could probably go. I'd hold onto the 9-18, 45-200, and 20 for those more extreme situations than the LX5 could handle. But in terms of IQ in reasonable light, I'm very happy with this, as I was very happy with my S90. I'm not that much of a pixel peeper anyway and these, even the jpegs, look just fine to me. So I'd be very happy just carrying this the vast majority of the time. But I'm getting waaaaaay ahead of myself here - the camera isn't quite 2 days old yet! :cool:

-Ray
 
olli said:
Beautiful shots Ray. #2 is a gem - great colour in the two trees and balance between the vertical trees and horizontal fence.
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Thanks so much Olli. A cycling friend of mine pointed something out to me about that one that I'd never have noticed. It has an older fence and it only has 3 slats (cross pieces - not sure if they're called slats or not). All of the newer fences in the other shots have 4 slats. I'd have never noticed that in a million years. But he's been noticing the same thing on his rides, with newer fences having four. Maybe it was the 3-slat fence you liked about that shot? :cool:

-Ray
 
BBW said:
Your colors look fantastic, Javier! Can you explain to me of little brain what High DR jpegs are? Am I correct that this is an in camera setting, along with the Film mode - which I recognize?
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Actually it is a film setting in the menu of the LX-5.
These past few images are only crops and resizing.
 
Javier, those out of the camera black and white really are quite something. I am impressed by the jpeg output, coupled with your street views.

And, I agree with you Andy, regarding Don's photograph. I'll post here what I posted to Don on another venue which is that I think if Paul Strand (one the greats) were here looking at this photo from Juniper Street, he'd be smiling - and be asking to borrow Don's LX5. Stunning in its subtlety and that flash of sunlight... No need for me to say more. Beautiful.
 
Wow - now when you say "film grain" do you mean the in camera "film mode" or ? Crystal clear, that's for sure - I feel as though I could reach out and touch her face.

Wonderful reflection in those sunglasses.;)
 

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