And one taken a couple of week ago, crop from a much larger picture ment for something else but I always like the structure of this building in harsh sunlight.
I do kind of prefer the pano crop my self though I really like the colors in the water on the uncropped version, still, panos have a very special feel to them and I think I will try to use them more.
A street shot from Copenhagen metro. I really love street shooting and it's a discipline I would love to start doing more, this is more or less from my first real dedicated outing doing street, I am just to anxious about it otherwise but hopefully I can let that fear go and start doing it more.
Forgot this one... I was very tempted to try Fuji X again but I've completely ruled it out. No IBIS means no camera for me. This shot would've been impossible without IBIS or a tripod or a stabilized lens which, as far as Fuji goes, doesn't exist in shorter focal ranges and/or the lesser quality zooms. So IBIS it is or no camera for me
The fact that one can see the shop windows through the bus was an unexpected bonus, I will try and redo it and try and get a person in the background instead.
Wilbus wrote:
Forgot this one... I was very tempted to try Fuji X again but I've completely ruled it out. No IBIS means no camera for me. This shot would've been impossible without IBIS or a tripod or a stabilized lens which, as far as Fuji goes, doesn't exist in shorter focal ranges and/or the lesser quality zooms. So IBIS it is or no camera for me
My Fuji has IBIS... and it cost a lot less than a G9, which is largely why I'm shooting Fuji instead of Panasonic now.
Fuji's XF 10-24mm f4 lens also has OIS, and there aren't many shorter focal length lenses around...
About the only thing that I don't like about my G9 is that weirdly Panasonic removed the 4th contact pin on the hot shoe for power like my LX100 and Em1 MK II has. It means I can use the fantastic little Olympus FM-LM3 unit on either my Olympus or LX100 cameras, but sadly not on the G9, which is a real shame as it's a super little flash that you don't even notice having in your bag, but ideal for a bit of fill light etc.
p.7 #10 · Panasonic G9 image thread and discussion
My only gripe with the G9, aside from high ISO performance, was the joystick for selecting AF points not being able to move diagonally. It always felt like I was playing PacMan...
p.7 #11 · Panasonic G9 image thread and discussion
Never thought about the 4:th pin for the hotshoe, can understand why it's a problem though I never liked that particular flash.
About the joystick, yup, would be awesome if it moved more modern than Pacman And a bit faster would be nice too, both things are fixed on the S1 so hopefully they will be implemented in a G9 replacement as well, if there is one.
p.7 #12 · Panasonic G9 image thread and discussion
"Pro-Capture" (Olympus' term) in action at 20 fps rather than 60fps. For birds, among other things, I find that 60fps during one second is too fast, not enough action happens during that time and after that the buffer is full.
p.7 #17 · Panasonic G9 image thread and discussion
First shots with the new animal tracking mode on the G9. Works shockingly well from testing on my dog and cats so far but this has just been shooting them slowly walking around the house. Good news is that even though it draws a large box around the whole animal it does seem to try and put the focus point on one of the eyes.
p.7 #18 · Panasonic G9 image thread and discussion
Awesome Whumber!
I just woke up on my side of the world and will update this morning and then make sure I need to run an errand at work which will give me a quick route to find some birds (hopefully)
p.7 #19 · Panasonic G9 image thread and discussion
After having requested that someone with a G9 start this thread (thanks again Rasmus for doing this) that helped me to decide to buy a G9 instead of an EM1.2 to eventually pair with a then yet to be obtained PL100-400, I have been lacking in adding posting here now that I have both. Yesterday I decided to take the pair out to the back porch to remind myself how to use the G9 and to play more with the lens. (I had been traveling for a couple of weeks and my GX8 with Panys 14-140ii, 7-14, and 100-300 are now my standard air travel kit. I just like how the GX8 with the 14-140 hangs on my hand with a grip strap, plus the three lenses produce as-good-as-I-need travel photos.) So here are a few of yesterday's backyard photos. For some years now I find myself taking "Last leaves of autumn" photos as a sort of an ongoing series of lens tests, plus I find them kind to fun to look at. At the start the camera was set to raw (which I use almost all of the time), then I decided to try the fine jpg setting just to see how the photos might differ. I used that setting for the remainder of the photos here. To me, the raw photos of the leaves were a tad sharper, so I will likely rarely switch the G9 to jpg usage again ... except for a future test someday. The young house sparrows on the feeder and the branch seem to hold up reasonably with their about 50% corps. The same for the junco, but it took several tries to get the camera to focus on its black head rather than the foreground branch. Today I installed the G9's V2 update, so it will be interesting to see how focus improves ... or not.
p.7 #20 · Panasonic G9 image thread and discussion
After my previous post, I saw the afternoon light was similar to what I had yesterday and I wanted to see what if any difference the V2 firmware update made on the G9 focus ability for little birds. I set the focus up for animal/eye focus. On the second shot the camera focus set up a yellow "body" box around the bird on the feeder, so I clicked the shutter thinking how cool this feature is. Well, actually, not so cool as this is the last time this happened in likely 20-30+ attempts. Every other time with focus set the same way, all that happened was a bunch of green focus boxes scattered around the screen and most times none included a focus box on the bird. So, I switched to 1-area AF using the smallest area setting. This seemed to focus a bit faster than that setting did yesterday, but that might be only wishful thinking on my part. Then a frontal system moved in making the light diffuse, not a match to yesterday and I ended today's test shots. Here are a couple of the more fun but not great photos using the 1-area setting today. (As I typically do, the raw files are processed in stand-alone LR 6.14, including cropping with slight to moderate quick adjustments for Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, White, Black, Clarity, Vibrance, Saturation, and Sharping, plus a bit of post-crop vignette added to the bird on the tree photo.)
And a bit faster would be nice too, both things are fixed on the S1 so hopefully they will be implemented in a G9 replacement as well, if there is one.
