Jock Elliott
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- Troy, NY
This is my favorite time of year. I love coming around a corner in the dark to find a house lit with warmth and loveliness. Lately, I've felt an internal prompting to try to capture that beauty.
So when the better half (aka spotter-in-chief) proposed, yesterday evening, a stroll around the neighborhood to view the Christmas lights, I said "Sure," and grabbed the trusted Canon G12. But as we stepped out the door, it started to rain, so I swapped the G12 for the Fuji XP-90.
I learned with the XP-90 that the best way to deal with it is to put it in full auto mode. There is little you can do to control it anyway.
Bottom line, with the exception of a couple of very marginal frames, everything I shot was crap . . . problems with flare, shake, blown highlights, mysterious apparitions:
Obviously, this is not the camera for low-light conditions. And neither is it the camera for bright sunny conditions, because it is all too easy to find yourself unable to compose the shot because sunlight has rendered by back screen unusable.
On occasion, it will deliver results that serve the purpose:
So here's what the camera industry needs to produce: a bullet proof (waterproof, etc.) pocketable (even a large pocket) camera that is decent in low light and has an actual viewfinder so that it can be used in the blinding glare of the sun. I bet pros would snap them up, as well as anybody who wants to shoot photos and not put their "good" cameras at risk. I think something like a weatherized G12 with its tunnel optical viewfinder would serve.
Cheers, Jock
So when the better half (aka spotter-in-chief) proposed, yesterday evening, a stroll around the neighborhood to view the Christmas lights, I said "Sure," and grabbed the trusted Canon G12. But as we stepped out the door, it started to rain, so I swapped the G12 for the Fuji XP-90.
I learned with the XP-90 that the best way to deal with it is to put it in full auto mode. There is little you can do to control it anyway.
Bottom line, with the exception of a couple of very marginal frames, everything I shot was crap . . . problems with flare, shake, blown highlights, mysterious apparitions:
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Obviously, this is not the camera for low-light conditions. And neither is it the camera for bright sunny conditions, because it is all too easy to find yourself unable to compose the shot because sunlight has rendered by back screen unusable.
On occasion, it will deliver results that serve the purpose:
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So here's what the camera industry needs to produce: a bullet proof (waterproof, etc.) pocketable (even a large pocket) camera that is decent in low light and has an actual viewfinder so that it can be used in the blinding glare of the sun. I bet pros would snap them up, as well as anybody who wants to shoot photos and not put their "good" cameras at risk. I think something like a weatherized G12 with its tunnel optical viewfinder would serve.
Cheers, Jock
