Nuts on Photog
An SLR is a good camera to have, and they make beautiful photos however I been missing a lot of shots lately due their bulky size makes it cumbersome to carry during rides or travelling abroad.
Enough said, I can't afford to missed more shots. I love taking photos, this I do from the very early age. My first camera is a 35mm format plastic toy like camera with many light leaks that I bought for under RM 5.00 in the early seventies. It works but don't expect sharp and pretty photos, at that time it was Black & White a crappy black & white more like it.
As times goes, and with scholarship I bought myself a Yashica FX-3 ... wooowwww.. my first SLR this was back in 81. This sample of FX-3 Super was a later addition that I am collecting.
Its not as easy as today, with digital age where you can see what exactly you are shooting and read the Exif files to see and correct with software. Its a "Dog Eat Dog" world of photography where taking shot means your are going into that "Black Hole" of uncertainties, or at least that where my skill of photography was then.
So back to missing a lot of shots I decide to get a compact a camera for "Jalan Jalan". Not any compact will do, after few months of evaluating I decide on the Lumix DMC-LX5 with that LEICA DC VARIO-SUMMICRON lens at a bright aperture of 2.0 and a 3.8x magnification as photo below.
Why not go for micro 4/3 like the Lumix GH3, not necessary this LX5 sensor is good enough for me and I don't need interchangeable lens since I already have an SLR with a few lenses. Furthermore if you do street photography a smaller good camera is ideal, its less intrusive than a big bad bulky camera.
Why don't get those Lumix TZ20 with mega zoom and GPS, well mega zoom means mega shake, to get mega zoom on a compact the sensor need to be small this will cause bad low light performance. GPS I already have it on my SLR so not that important, I could geotag photos with my portable tagger so its do able in other ways.
The one feature I find lacking on this LX5 is the absent of a view finder, takes time to adapt. I am very used to view finder, all camera I had will have it. Like the canon Ixus V3 that occasionally died on me while taking a shot. Electronics View Finder or EVF is an optional accessories for this camera, but its just not worth the money to pay for it.
How irony, the Ixus V3 with 3.2 mp is more expensive that this one at 10.1 mp and that at 2001 rate which is more that todays. How time change.
The video quality of this camera as they said .. its the MC Hammer Camera for video .. "You can't touch it"
Enough said, I can't afford to missed more shots. I love taking photos, this I do from the very early age. My first camera is a 35mm format plastic toy like camera with many light leaks that I bought for under RM 5.00 in the early seventies. It works but don't expect sharp and pretty photos, at that time it was Black & White a crappy black & white more like it.
As times goes, and with scholarship I bought myself a Yashica FX-3 ... wooowwww.. my first SLR this was back in 81. This sample of FX-3 Super was a later addition that I am collecting.
So back to missing a lot of shots I decide to get a compact a camera for "Jalan Jalan". Not any compact will do, after few months of evaluating I decide on the Lumix DMC-LX5 with that LEICA DC VARIO-SUMMICRON lens at a bright aperture of 2.0 and a 3.8x magnification as photo below.
The one feature I find lacking on this LX5 is the absent of a view finder, takes time to adapt. I am very used to view finder, all camera I had will have it. Like the canon Ixus V3 that occasionally died on me while taking a shot. Electronics View Finder or EVF is an optional accessories for this camera, but its just not worth the money to pay for it.
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