Ray Sachs
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- Location
- Not too far from Philly
- Name
- you should be able to figure it out...
Last night was our local Holiday parade. It gets bigger and crazier every year. I took the X10 and the GRD3 to see how they'd do in such low light shooting. And I took the X100 because I KNOW how it does. After a few shots with each of the little guys, I put 'em back in the bag and just shot with the X100. Being able to confidently shoot at ISO 3200 is such an amazing luxury and makes shooting events like this SOOOOOO much easier, at least combined with a reasonably fast f2.0 lens. I'm sure I'd have come close to the quality shooting with my Pen and 25mm f1.4 at 1600, but that's not my favorite field of view by a long shot. Every now and then I forget just how much I love the X100 and a shoot like this just smacks me in the face with what a wonderful camera it is!
I went back and looked at my shots from last year of the same event when the best I could do was a GF1 with the 20 f1.7, which I was never really comfortable shooting above 800. I had a lot of shots with that combination with just too slow a shutter speed to really work. But a larger noise free sensor (or just great jpeg noise handling - take your pick), makes a HUGE difference. I wish I'd have taken the Pen and the 12mm and 45mm to see how they'd have done at 1600 - they were great for Times Square night shooting, but there's a WHOLE lot more light in Times Square than in this little town! I suspect I'd have still had trouble maintaining decent shutter speeds...
These are all X100 and pretty much all wide open at 3200. The B&W are al Silver Efex Pro, the color shots are a mix of Color Efex Pro and Silver Efex Pro...
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This kid did NOT get what he was hoping for last year!
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Its easy to forget how overwhelming and amazing the world could be when you were a kid...
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Parade or not, these folks still had to work...
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-Ray
I went back and looked at my shots from last year of the same event when the best I could do was a GF1 with the 20 f1.7, which I was never really comfortable shooting above 800. I had a lot of shots with that combination with just too slow a shutter speed to really work. But a larger noise free sensor (or just great jpeg noise handling - take your pick), makes a HUGE difference. I wish I'd have taken the Pen and the 12mm and 45mm to see how they'd have done at 1600 - they were great for Times Square night shooting, but there's a WHOLE lot more light in Times Square than in this little town! I suspect I'd have still had trouble maintaining decent shutter speeds...
These are all X100 and pretty much all wide open at 3200. The B&W are al Silver Efex Pro, the color shots are a mix of Color Efex Pro and Silver Efex Pro...
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This kid did NOT get what he was hoping for last year!
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Its easy to forget how overwhelming and amazing the world could be when you were a kid...
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Parade or not, these folks still had to work...
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-Ray