- Location
- Switzerland
- Name
- Matt
This is not going to be as long and intense as last years thread, but some might find it interesting - because this time, I did the opposite: Instead of packing my most highly rated gear, I went with two compacts, the Panasonic FZ1000 and, again, the Canon G1X III, plus my father's Olympus XA with Fujifilm C200.
It's early days (literally - I arrived this afternoon), but it was very interesting to see that when out walking through the woods, the G1X III didn't come out once. The FZ1000 appeared to be in its element, and the images (RAW files at base ISO, so far!) look very nice indeed, considering we're talking about a first generation 1" sensor here. I was most taken with the long range, too - a number of my favourite shots from today's short walk were taken at the 146mm (400mm-e) end of the zoom. Honestly, I could have faked a couple of macro shots - easily; I zoomed in on the bee in the first image and was almost shocked at how detailed things looked at 100%; slightly soft, of course, but by no means unusable. Sadly, the need to shrink the images for upload because of the low bandwidth around here has swallowed must of that information; I still like the shot though ... I pulled back quite some of shadow detail in the second shot, too. All in all, I see no reason to regret my decision to take it easy after SiJy and use the most hassle-free camera I own. That said, I had one issue: There's no built-in ND filter - so no .way to pull shutter speed low enough for smooting. Not too bad (I'm usually not into that anyway), but a little disappointing; the G1X III could do this, of course ...
The G1X III came into its own when strolling through the village - though light was so bad that I didn't get a lot of worthwhile shots, but the RAW files stay usable up to ISO 3200 (there's one shot here). That's a clear advantage over the FZ1000 (ISO 800 is okay, but ISO 1600 gets really ugly in terms of chroma noise - darktable can handle it, but that means a lot of detail lost).
I'll probably post daily - or at least a couple of times during my extend week's stay; shooting is fun so far, and quite rewarding in spite of the fact that the weather wasn't as fine as might have been.
M.
It's early days (literally - I arrived this afternoon), but it was very interesting to see that when out walking through the woods, the G1X III didn't come out once. The FZ1000 appeared to be in its element, and the images (RAW files at base ISO, so far!) look very nice indeed, considering we're talking about a first generation 1" sensor here. I was most taken with the long range, too - a number of my favourite shots from today's short walk were taken at the 146mm (400mm-e) end of the zoom. Honestly, I could have faked a couple of macro shots - easily; I zoomed in on the bee in the first image and was almost shocked at how detailed things looked at 100%; slightly soft, of course, but by no means unusable. Sadly, the need to shrink the images for upload because of the low bandwidth around here has swallowed must of that information; I still like the shot though ... I pulled back quite some of shadow detail in the second shot, too. All in all, I see no reason to regret my decision to take it easy after SiJy and use the most hassle-free camera I own. That said, I had one issue: There's no built-in ND filter - so no .way to pull shutter speed low enough for smooting. Not too bad (I'm usually not into that anyway), but a little disappointing; the G1X III could do this, of course ...
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The G1X III came into its own when strolling through the village - though light was so bad that I didn't get a lot of worthwhile shots, but the RAW files stay usable up to ISO 3200 (there's one shot here). That's a clear advantage over the FZ1000 (ISO 800 is okay, but ISO 1600 gets really ugly in terms of chroma noise - darktable can handle it, but that means a lot of detail lost).
I'll probably post daily - or at least a couple of times during my extend week's stay; shooting is fun so far, and quite rewarding in spite of the fact that the weather wasn't as fine as might have been.
M.