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09/01/13  Fujifilm X100SSome of you might be asking yourselves why would he post this image. Nothing special whatsoever. I would agree but the reason is the blue sky, the detail you can still see in the shadows and the whites did NOT blow out. How impressive is that. BTW: This is Blanka (eng=white) enjoying the Spanish morning light. 977
X100S Focal Length: 23 mm Aperture: f/4.0 Exposure Time: 1/1800 sec ISO: 200 08/31/13  Fujifilm X100SThis is my better half laughing at me while I try to get the shot. The camera was set to auto WB as the lighting was very difficult. From the right I had daylight coming in through the open door. In the background I had a yellow/orange spot (upper left) and behind me I had white spots to accentuate the art being presented. I let the camera do it's thing and I do believe it did a better job than I ever could. Did I mention the sharpness? 949
X100S Focal Length: 23 mm Aperture: f/5.6 Exposure Time: 1/60 sec ISO: 2000 08/30/13  Fujifilm X100SI think I've said this before but I'll just say it again. These Fujifilm files from the X-Trans sensor produces the best files for monochrome conversion bar none. If I'm going out specifically to get some B&W images I'll take the Fujifilm cameras. Look at the clarity, tones and sharpness in the image above. I doubt if I'd gotten this file from any other system. Many might try to prove me wrong here but these files just work for me. I have problem from other systems converting the files and it takes me ages to get the look I'm after, but not with the Fuji files. Again, it just works for me. 963
X100S Focal Length: 23 mm Aperture: f/4.0 Exposure Time: 1/40 sec ISO: 200 08/29/13  Fujifilm X100SThe detail here is very impressive. I'm not surprised that one certain pro photographer has named this camera as his alltime favourite and has dumped all his other cameras. 925
X100S Focal Length: 23 mm Aperture: f/2.0 Exposure Time: 1/70 sec ISO: 200 08/28/13  Fujifilm X100SI sain in my last post that I find it difficult to use this fixed 35mm lens camera and I still hold to that. What keeps me using this camera though are the great files I get out of it. They impress me every time I look at them. The colour is great, the rendition you get from this lens is superb and the great clarity and sharpness is up there with the best of them. I had a three hour stop over at a certain airport not long ago so I just went around snapping away. Nothing in paticular, just some things I though might be interesting for my holiday journals. There has been very little processing done on these files, apart from raw development. The colours here are spot on. The blue of the chairs and the red in the Lavazza advert are exactly as I saw them. I'm impressed. 922
X100S Focal Length: 23 mm Aperture: f/2.0 Exposure Time: 1/140 sec ISO: 200 08/27/13  Fujifilm X100SI used to take the Panasonic LX5 or the Panasonic GF1 as my onboard camera when travelling. I say that because I don't try and stuff my cameras into my pockets. I find that the cameras are too big for that or to put it another way, my pockets are too small. I always have a rucksack with me when travelling so that is where they go. I'm still having problems dealing with these fixed focal length cameras being used to zoom lenses and I'm still trying to train my eye for this 35mm equivalent focal length. I find it really wide and often ask myself how do people shoot with even wider lenses. I'm thinking you have to go in very close to use these. It just isn't the way I shoot. I suppose I'm also too shy to do this type of thing. Just trying to turn the tables around. How would I feel if some idiot would come up to me and stuff a camera in my face. I don't think I'd like that so I tend not to do it myself. I tend to use this camera in a documentry type of photography. Get more of my surroundings in to show a little more of what's going on. Any tips out there, please send me a mail on how to get to frips with these wider focal lengths. I'm always trying to learn more about this art form. You have to keep on learning, keeps the mind active. 935
X100S Focal Length: 23 mm Aperture: f/8.0 Exposure Time: 1/480 sec ISO: 200 08/26/13  Nikkor 1 VR 30-110 f3.8-5.6Even though this lens isn't particularly fast the VR system is good enough to get a sharp image. The image above was taken at 30mm (81mm equiv) with a shutter speed of 1/160 which is double the rule of thumb. So some of you might say that is no great feat, but the street was in shadow and was darker than the image implies. You may be right though and this doesn't prove how good the VR system really is. I might have to take some low light images to see just how good it is. But then noise does tend to creep in at higher ISO values. The image was taken at f5.6 and as you can see the image is sharp from foreground to infinity, a great advantage of the smaller sensors, you don't have to stop way down to get the depth of field you want. 973
NIKON 1 V1 Focal Length: 30 mm Aperture: f/5.6 Exposure Time: 1/160 sec ISO: 100 • Nikon • V1 • 30-110 f3.8-5.6
08/25/13  Nikkor VR 6.7-13 f3.5-5.6 AppetizerThe Nikon 1 camera system is quite amazing. It is small, fast with very accurate WB and focusing. What's not to like. On top of that it has some amazingly sharp lenses, including the zoom lenses and they are sharp wide open. I think the best thing this system has got going for it is the battery lasts for EVER! When I look at the Fuji system, the batteries die on you before you've turned on the system nearly. OK, that might be a little over exaggerated but it certainy feels like it. As much as I like the Fuji X cameras that is one of the bad points about it. They really should get that sorted out. I have the grip for my X-E1 and it's a pain in the a**e every time I have to change batteries. Please Fuji, take note. As a side note that Nikon battery is the same one they use in their DSLR systems, so it's no wonder they last forever in the 1 system. The image above is just an appetizer to show the detail captured by 6.7-13 f3.5-5.6 lens. I have to take more images with this lens to be able to post some more but at present, it looks very promising. More on this lens later. 832
NIKON 1 V1 Focal Length: 13 mm Aperture: f/5.6 Exposure Time: 1/1250 sec ISO: 100 • Nikon • V1 • 6.7-13 f3.5-5.6
08/24/13  Nikkor VR 30-110 f3.8-5.6If you haven't realised it yet, we have a lot of horses around here. Using this lens is really fun. No sign of purple fringing at all which is great. 968
NIKON 1 V1 Focal Length: 47.5 mm Aperture: f/5.6 Exposure Time: 1/320 sec ISO: 100 • Nikon • V1 • 30-110 f3.8-5.6
08/23/13  Nikkor VR 30-110 f3.8-5.6Just some very inquisitive foals taken at the wide end of the 30-110. Sharp, sharp, sharp. 965
NIKON 1 V1 Focal Length: 30 mm Aperture: f/5.6 Exposure Time: 1/250 sec ISO: 100 • Nikon • V1 • 30-110 f3.8-5.6
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