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Challenge! March Symposium: The Small Sensor Look.
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tonyturley
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I missed yesterday so I'll share two today. I owned a Lumix LX7 for a short while. I liked the fast glass with the decent zoom range from wide to moderate telephoto. Don't remember why I sold it, but it was a good little camera, and it's got me thinking that I need a good, pocketable camera with similar glass.
Here are a couple of photos from 2013 in NYC's Chinatown
Shy Young Boy by John Flores, on Flickr
Through the dirty glass of a cafe by John Flores, on Flickr
Here are a couple of photos from 2013 in NYC's Chinatown
Shy Young Boy by John Flores, on Flickr
Through the dirty glass of a cafe by John Flores, on Flickr
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The Third, the Third Dandelion of Spring!
I'll stop now. I can't decide between the first and third as my favorite. The first is a technically better image, but the dead, dried leaf in the third provides such a nice counterpoint to vibrant and colorful flower.
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I'll stop now. I can't decide between the first and third as my favorite. The first is a technically better image, but the dead, dried leaf in the third provides such a nice counterpoint to vibrant and colorful flower.
A golden oldy from 2007 taken with my first digital camera, the Canon A520 with its mighty 4MP 1/2.5" sensor. These two elderly gentlemen were sitting together in the large park near our house in Tirana, Albania. On Sunday people got dressed up and went for a walk, many of them in this park. Given their age they would have lived through all the worst excesses of the communist regime and the chaotic years of the post-communist transition. I can't begin to imagine the life experiences they could chat about sitting companionably on this Sunday afternoon.
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- Miguel Tejada-Flores
Two shots taken with the little Q7, using the in-camera 'Bold Monochrome' setting.
The first, from the wee-wee (post midnight) hours, inside my writing office, where my Calavera couple show that death, per se, can't interfere with being together---
The second, with the fish-eye lens, in the overcast light of a cold, grey day - of an old (but still functional!) watering can---
I keep forgetting just how w-i-d-e the field-of-view of the Q's tiny fish-eye lens is: I had no idea the edges of my Ecco sandals were in frame.
The first, from the wee-wee (post midnight) hours, inside my writing office, where my Calavera couple show that death, per se, can't interfere with being together---
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The second, with the fish-eye lens, in the overcast light of a cold, grey day - of an old (but still functional!) watering can---
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I keep forgetting just how w-i-d-e the field-of-view of the Q's tiny fish-eye lens is: I had no idea the edges of my Ecco sandals were in frame.
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Way to push the iso and use bold monochrome. Feels like high contrast film.
I ought to do more of that. Makes the Q7 and 01 prime a formidable evening shooter.
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I too had an LX7 for quite awhile, John - and your take on it is spot on and closely parallels mine: a really nice small semi pocketable camera with a fast lens and not only a decent zoom range but also a zoom whose optical qualities really impressed. But the sad truth is: I don't think that camera exists, or has ever been built. The closest Panasonic came was with the LX100 - a camera which nearly has the same height & width dimensions as the LX7, but a much 'fatter' lens (which sticks out more). It also has a micro4/3 sensor which is roughly five times larger than the LX7's 1/1.7" sensor - but, honestly, I rather liked the LX7's smaller sensor which, among other things, gave its lens superb close-focusing macro capability. True, it added an EVF also, but not a great one. (The LX100 also weighs nearly a quarter more than the LX7 did.)
I actually spent quite a few years searching for a camera which would do everything that my old LX7 did and my solution was to buy not one but two cameras, neither of which are quite as pocketable as the LX7 was. One was the Fujifilm X30. It's a tiny bit wider than the LX7, but has a fast (f/2) lens, a nice zoom range, and a brilliant small 2/3" sensor which is actually significantly better than (and a bit bigger than) that of the LX7 - but at the same time it's also a brilliant macro camera. Like the LX100, the X30 also sports an EVF - but though it's small, it's a very fine one. Problem is, you need a slightly bigger pocket.
The other camera - also a tad bigger and fatter and heavier than the LX7 - but one which nonetheless manages to be surprisingly pocketable - is Canon's G1x Mark III - which has an APS-C sensor and a fine zoom lens - and is totally weather-sealed, a huge plus. Unlike the LX7, it has a tiny SLR-style hump with an EVF but it's a superb small EVF, further increasing the general take-everywhere-do-everything utility of the camera. Its only 'downside' is a slower f/2.8 zoom lens - but the quality of the sensor more than makes up for that. (It also doesn't have the macro capabilities of the smaller-sensored LX7, sigh.)
But...there is good news, or light at the end of the tunnel: there is a superb and tiny smaller-sensored LX7 replacement - it look like a near-clone of the aforementioned G1kMkiii - Canon's G5X camera. It's smaller than its APS-C sibling - its dimensions are almost identical to those of the LX7, and it weighs just a tad more than the LX7 - best of all, it has a fast f/1.8 lens - and a larger and excellent 1" sensor. I think if I didn't already have (and love) the other two aforementioned cameras - and I wanted a pocketable LX7 replacement - this would be it
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2015. Daytona Bike Week. I had ridden down from New Jersey on a BMW super scooter. Just because. Pentax Q-S1 with 02 Standard Zoom suction-cupped to my friend's rental Mustang as we roll through the main drag.
Daytona Beach Welcomes Riders by John Flores, on Flickr
Daytona Beach Welcomes Riders by John Flores, on Flickr
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Miguel, I had a G5X for a while. It had many fine qualities as a walk-around camera, and I took some of my favourite photos with it, but it was seriously unimpressive for macro work. Autofocus seemed downright ornery at close rage, and the lens just wasn’t sharp enough except for the central 30% or so; corners were not just soft but distorted too if you tried to open up the aperture at all. On the plus side, it had a very usable EVF, excellent controls, good touchscreen, and a brilliant astro mode that took all the hard work out of getting a nice night sky photo. But if (I assume) you’re keen on close ups, I would advise against it.I too had an LX7 for quite awhile, John - and your take on it is spot on and closely parallels mine: a really nice small semi pocketable camera with a fast lens and not only a decent zoom range but also a zoom whose optical qualities really impressed. But the sad truth is: I don't think that camera exists, or has ever been built. The closest Panasonic came was with the LX100 - a camera which nearly has the same height & width dimensions as the LX7, but a much 'fatter' lens (which sticks out more). It also has a micro4/3 sensor which is roughly five times larger than the LX7's 1/1.7" sensor - but, honestly, I rather liked the LX7's smaller sensor which, among other things, gave its lens superb close-focusing macro capability. True, it added an EVF also, but not a great one. (The LX100 also weighs nearly a quarter more than the LX7 did.)
I actually spent quite a few years searching for a camera which would do everything that my old LX7 did and my solution was to buy not one but two cameras, neither of which are quite as pocketable as the LX7 was. One was the Fujifilm X30. It's a tiny bit wider than the LX7, but has a fast (f/2) lens, a nice zoom range, and a brilliant small 2/3" sensor which is actually significantly better than (and a bit bigger than) that of the LX7 - but at the same time it's also a brilliant macro camera. Like the LX100, the X30 also sports an EVF - but though it's small, it's a very fine one. Problem is, you need a slightly bigger pocket.
The other camera - also a tad bigger and fatter and heavier than the LX7 - but one which nonetheless manages to be surprisingly pocketable - is Canon's G1x Mark III - which has an APS-C sensor and a fine zoom lens - and is totally weather-sealed, a huge plus. Unlike the LX7, it has a tiny SLR-style hump with an EVF but it's a superb small EVF, further increasing the general take-everywhere-do-everything utility of the camera. Its only 'downside' is a slower f/2.8 zoom lens - but the quality of the sensor more than makes up for that. (It also doesn't have the macro capabilities of the smaller-sensored LX7, sigh.)
But...there is good news, or light at the end of the tunnel: there is a superb and tiny smaller-sensored LX7 replacement - it look like a near-clone of the aforementioned G1kMkiii - Canon's G5X camera. It's smaller than its APS-C sibling - its dimensions are almost identical to those of the LX7, and it weighs just a tad more than the LX7 - best of all, it has a fast f/1.8 lens - and a larger and excellent 1" sensor. I think if I didn't already have (and love) the other two aforementioned cameras - and I wanted a pocketable LX7 replacement - this would be it
