Mikey:
Thanks ! I'm chiming in as this was very surprising to me; I wish I was accomplished enough to have exposed this on my own, but it's all the camera, believe me.
On the X10, this was done with the Night preset (there are two in the X10's SP list of presets, one with and one without a tripod, which is what I used here) hand-held. I took a test shot and saw (to me) not enough dark contrast. So I dialed in -2 on the Exp Comp dial, liked the way it looked better, and that was it. JPEG. I cropped it to 16:9 so I could use it as wallpaper on the desktop (help yourself !) and added a bit more contrast PP.
The camera picked out 1/60 @ f2.8, ISO 400; this preset sets AWB to Auto and specs multi-area metering. I'm amazed that it picked up the reflections on the cars in the foreground and did not blow out the headlights of that approaching car on the right bottom, and you can almost read the sign on the left wall. No orbs !
This was one of those 'Round-2-it' shots; as you can see, it's an amazing venue with all the neon. I just happened to pass there the other night, had the X10 with me, and you know the rest . . . . this little camera never seases to amaze me. I tried night shots in the film days, but it was so much harder. I'm living proof that X10's are pretty idiot-proof !
