Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The DLux-4 is my obsession I "gave up" professional photography 9 years ago when carrying around 2 M6's lenses from 28 to 90mm and an FM2n with an 80-200 and a 20mm became too much. 6 Years ago when my son was born I got a D100 but although I had a brief spurt it proved too heavy for me, but I had a dream that one day there would be a 28 f2 to 50mm fast aperture digital compact that I'd be able to use. On 1st April my wife had her Ricoh on her and I took the "funny shot" (not sure if someone was playing an april fools with those benches I only noticed te date last night) and then thought I'd see what was available for compacts, That night I had the panasonic version on order, but they ran out of stock. I phoned around London and found that Jacobs had 2 Dlux's due to be delivered to Chelsea and I got on a train immediately (I'm quite disabled and sensitive to vibration). I got the camera and then spent 3 days recovering. I've spent most of my time tuning the camera to not do things by itself, I have the viewfinder on order because I have quite strong opinions about brightline viewfinders and how they improve eye contact and composition (although when I was a professional I did the ocassional PR job where I wasn't taken seriously because of my M6 "compact"). Hopefully I'll be able to keep the camera on me, though I don't go out much, I'm kicking myself because on the way to Chelsea a woman bumped into my walking stick as she came out of a house, her chauffeur compete with peaked cap held the door open to a ?300 SAAB 9000 complete with faded paintwork and rust, so that will have to be the "one that got away". The only downsides to the DLUX so far are not being able to zoom to fixed settings at 24,28,35,50 and 60mm (my wife's ricoh has that option except from 28mm to 85), the optics for a zoom are quite incredible, I find the capture one software of little benefit, The shutter lag is not bad, but I'm slow to operate a camera nowadays anyway, all the program modes are not really suitable for a serious camera, the colour rendition of pinhole is nice but I'd like to remove the vignette and do it in photoshop (although it's not really my thing). Enough wittering and back to training myself to find the buttons with my eyes closed. Philip. bruce golding wrote: > one sad one, one fun one. great show. > > On 14-apr-2009, at 15:15, Philip Clarke wrote: > >> >> I've come in halfway through the recession/ crisis project, but >> locally the restaurants are empty. >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Philip+Clarke/images/L1010213+copy.jpg.html >> >> >> >> Just trying to get to grip with a D-Lux 4, 1/6th second at 60mm >> equivalent is incredible, although I've got too many jpeg artifacts >> so I need to learn the capture one software to make use of the raw >> format. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information