A nice image. I saw your first link on my Flickr page, since I have made you a contact. If I may...I was really struck by the Flickr crop of the image which, after comparing, I think is even more powerful than the full frame: http://www.antiqueauto.org/assets/waltcrop.png
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Zos Xavius <zosxav...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you get a Panny, the fz-35 was the best superzoom they made IMO. > Probably the best superzoom ever. IQ at ISO 100-200 is not bad. > Especially if you shoot RAW. The Panny JPEG engine is well known for > turning photographs into watercolors. At 400 it starts to creep in > pretty good, but you can still get images suitable for smaller prints. > The lens on the fz-28/fz-35 is sharpest around f4 and is very usable > wide open, which is f2.8 at the wide end. Diffraction starts kicking > in at f5 anyways, so you have a fairly limited fstop range to work > with to begin with. Much like the Q. The image stabilization on those > cameras is really, really good too. How many sharp shots can you get > with your pentax at 1/20s @ 500mm? I carried one of these cameras > everywhere for a few years and they served me rather well. The video > off the fz-35 was quite decent in good light too. Only 720p though. > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Walt <ldott...@gmail.com> wrote: >> It's a shame they went to an even noisier sensor. I haven't tried shooting >> the V-Lux at anything over ISO 100 so far. At what point does the noise >> start to really degrade the image? >> >> I really do like the lens a lot. If I found an exceptional deal on a gently >> used one of those Panasonic somewhere, I'd be sorely tempted to buy it as a >> lightweight carry-around for snapshots. >> >> -- Walt >> >> >> On 6/27/2013 2:24 PM, Zos Xavius wrote: >>> >>> I had both a panasonic fz-28 and fz-35. I think the v-lux 1 is the >>> same as an fz-50. They all had great, great optics that more than made >>> up for the noisy sensors panny was using. When they switched from CCD >>> to MOS (which gave even worse quality) I quit buying them and bought >>> my first DSLR. I've made some really nice prints from those cameras. >>> >>> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Walt <ldott...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> My pal, Dan, loaned me his Leica V-Lux 1 for a couple of weeks just to >>>> kick >>>> the tires on it a bit. >>>> >>>> I have to say, for a point and shoot, I'm pretty impressed. The build >>>> quality is no great shakes, and it definitely lacks the responsiveness of >>>> a >>>> DSLR. >>>> >>>> But, so far, the glass seems really, /really/ nice. >>>> >>>> http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/9152060941/ >>>> http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/9152060027/ >>>> >>>> -- Walt >>>> >>>> -- >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> PDML@pdml.net >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>>> follow the directions. >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- "Photography is a Bastard left by Science on the Doorstep of Art" - Peter Galassi -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
