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Kathy, our dog might well have wanted a sip of beer!
I've only used the flash a little and haven't bothered to read up on it at all - yet, though I plan to.
Just came back from a brief visit with friends up in the Great Barrington, Massachusetts area - what a gorgeous part of New England, if you've never visited.
What can I say, I still feel as though I am getting to know this camera...but my recent problems with my photo software, Aperture 3, have not helped speed me along. I do find that I tend to use the screen much, much more than the optical viewfinder unless I'm indoors in a dimly lighted area..but I have miles to go with this setup and am sure I'll find myself growing more comfortable.
I do notice that I need to really expose the "film"...I mean image...much differently than I did with my Olympus E-PL1. In this case, with the X1, if there is a high contrast between sky and earth or light and dark, it really needs to have a strongly negative EV applied...or perhaps I should try manually exposing more often? I hope that if any of you fellow X1 shooters read this that you'll add your thoughts here and share your experiences.
Not to much else to say right now except I do still really like the camera. It's a completely different experience than either of the two Olympus PEN cameras that I have used. I'm not really sure which I "like" better and may never be sure. That said, I've pretty much only been using the X1 of late. Time will tell, as with any relationship, right?
Here is the same photo, both in color and in a black and white conversion that I applied using my very fickle Aperture 3. I'd love to get a tutorial on Lightroom 3 since it came free as a download with this camera...perhaps one of these days.
X1 f/16 @ 1/640 ISO 800 w/-0.7 EV
Let me just add that no one should think I'm suggesting that these photos are the best that this camera can do. I was in somewhat of a hurry taking these - with a friend but we were on a mission and I pretty much fumbled my way through and as you can see used Auto ISO where I might well have done better if I'd had the time to manually expose with more care. That said, I think they worked out pretty well for a kind of slap dash approach.
Added a few others to the Leica X1 Image thread, too.
Kathy, our dog might well have wanted a sip of beer!
I've only used the flash a little and haven't bothered to read up on it at all - yet, though I plan to.
Just came back from a brief visit with friends up in the Great Barrington, Massachusetts area - what a gorgeous part of New England, if you've never visited.
What can I say, I still feel as though I am getting to know this camera...but my recent problems with my photo software, Aperture 3, have not helped speed me along. I do find that I tend to use the screen much, much more than the optical viewfinder unless I'm indoors in a dimly lighted area..but I have miles to go with this setup and am sure I'll find myself growing more comfortable.
I do notice that I need to really expose the "film"...I mean image...much differently than I did with my Olympus E-PL1. In this case, with the X1, if there is a high contrast between sky and earth or light and dark, it really needs to have a strongly negative EV applied...or perhaps I should try manually exposing more often? I hope that if any of you fellow X1 shooters read this that you'll add your thoughts here and share your experiences.
Not to much else to say right now except I do still really like the camera. It's a completely different experience than either of the two Olympus PEN cameras that I have used. I'm not really sure which I "like" better and may never be sure. That said, I've pretty much only been using the X1 of late. Time will tell, as with any relationship, right?
Here is the same photo, both in color and in a black and white conversion that I applied using my very fickle Aperture 3. I'd love to get a tutorial on Lightroom 3 since it came free as a download with this camera...perhaps one of these days.
X1 f/16 @ 1/640 ISO 800 w/-0.7 EV
Let me just add that no one should think I'm suggesting that these photos are the best that this camera can do. I was in somewhat of a hurry taking these - with a friend but we were on a mission and I pretty much fumbled my way through and as you can see used Auto ISO where I might well have done better if I'd had the time to manually expose with more care. That said, I think they worked out pretty well for a kind of slap dash approach.
Added a few others to the Leica X1 Image thread, too.