The Official Head-Case Photography Thread.

[shellylh]

I got the LX5 yesterday and it is really nice for a P&S, very fast. However, I am concerned with the LCD screen right now. The colors seem to be very inaccurate (much brighter) on the screen... much brighter than in the jpg and in real life. For example, yesterday I took this picture.

[The beer is a lot more "red" than I remember it being in real life but that could have been my fault.]

Here is what is looks like through the ZS3 LCD (taken on D90):

without flash

with flash

Here is what is looks like through the LX5 LCD (taken on D90):

without flash

with flash

I am wondering if this is just because the LCD is really bright or if my camera is defective (and I should send it back). Haven't really seen many people complaining about this.

Edited October 30, 2010 by shellylh

[VPI]

At ISO 400, 1/25, f2.0 outdoors I would have expected your picture to be really bright.

Edited October 30, 2010 by VPI

[Salt Peanuts]

Can you change the brightness setting on the LCD?

[shellylh]

Jeff: I think I had the camera on all auto/factory settings, hence the high iso. I haven't had much time to play around with it yet.

I'll have to find out if I can change the brightness of the screen, I think it is supposed to auto adjust, don't know about manual adjustments. I was just looking at comments on the LX3 and there seem to be some complaints about the screen brightness.

[digger945]

I think the picture looks great Shelly. I hate my camera, a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ8. I can never get a good picture unless it's mounted on a tripod or sitting on the table next to something, even in simple mode. Something with a minimal amount of fuss would be so great to have.

[VPI]

Village Halloween Parade

[falkon]

flash?

[VPI]

Yes, it was really the only choice with the sidewalks so packed with people I could not hand hold any kind of decently slow shutter so I broke out the 580exII.

[VPI]

A few more from last night.

[shellylh]

Cool pics Jeff.

[Salt Peanuts]

Canon's got few lenses in their refurb store section. Of course, more exciting lenses (24-105, 70-200 2.8 IS II) are already gone. I'm little sad that I missed out on 24-105, which was being sold for $540.

[Jon L]

Canon's got few lenses in their refurb store section. Of course, more exciting lenses (24-105, 70-200 2.8 IS II) are already gone. I'm little sad that I missed out on 24-105, which was being sold for $540.

I was going to buy the refurb Canon 50 mm f/1.4 at $311.99. However, after tax and standard shipping, it came out to be $356.68, which is actually higher than a brand new one from Amazon for $342 total shipped!

[falkon]

Holy shit, I wish I had gotten in on that. I did cave and get a 7D, however, after seeing the abysmal QC on the d7000.

[Voltron]

It's awesome that the superhero has glasses on under his mask.

[Salt Peanuts]

Holy shit, I wish I had gotten in on that. I did cave and get a 7D, however, after seeing the abysmal QC on the d7000.

Tell me about it. Congrats on 7D, btw. What was the QC issue with D7000? I stopped reading about D7000 since I know I'm not moving to Nikon at this point.

[falkon]

Apparently bad pixels on the sensor. It's just not worth the hassle to switch since the 7d can be had for cheap and has better build quality. The main reason to switch is the cheaper primes.

[Salt Peanuts]

Ah, that's too bad about D7000. As for 7D, I'm still kicking myself for not going for it when I got 50D as the price difference wasn't all that big at the time. Oh well, I guess I'll just save up for FF.

[falkon]

I'm sure it'll be a fine camera once all the kinks are ironed out. I just picked up another lens so I can't really switch anymore.

[Salt Peanuts]

What did you get?

[VPI]

Still getting to know the S95. So far I have very few complaints.

Shots from my walk to the train. ISO 640 1/40 at f2

Couple of snapshots of lenses.

[falkon]

100mm f/2.8L macro

[Salt Peanuts]

Nice - one of the Canon rep at a Canon workshop I attended had one and she kept gushing about it.

My next lens will probably be a better 50mm, after playing around with a nifty fifty. I'm hoping to try out a Sigma 50, but been either too busy or lazy to drive down to a one of the local Hunt's.

[VPI]

For the NYC photographers, it appears there will be a massive group of photographers getting together in Central Park this weekend organized by some pro photog to go check out the best photo places in the Park.

Fall Foilage Shoot in Central Park - "The New York City Digital Photography Meetup Group" (New York, NY) - Meetup

[falkon]

Yeah, make sure you try the Sigma on the Canon first. Some of them have horrendous focusing problems.

edit: Seems that CanonDirect already has $100 off the 60D. Guess it'll be 900 before the holidays.

[VPI]

Well my first foray into the off-brand lenses has been disappointing. The Sigma 85 f/1.4 has pretty terrible focusing issues. I can almost make it presentable on the 7D/5D MkII with MA but since I should not have to adjust that much and the 5Dc does not have MA, it is going back to B&H today.