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Yesterday I spent a beautiful day with my honey, her sister and sister's boyfriend at "European Dog Sled Race Championship". Initially, we planned to be here only few hours and then go ski for the rest of day. But in the end, we spent here all day. What started as a misty and cloudy day turned to a bright sunny afternoon. Because we planned to go ski, I've taken only one camera with me (GX100). Luckily, I was wise enough to get two spare batteries and the additional memory card with me GX100 once again proven to be a great universal camera. It especially shined in the situations where most photographers stuck with their 35mm or even 28mm lenses.
Because of difficult lightning and because of fast moving subjects, I decided to take all shots in full manual mode including manual focus. This was good choice for most of the shots. No matter how fast GX100 autofocus is, it cannot beat the Manual focus with preset distance. But of course, in some case it caused unsharp photos. From some strange reasons, some of the shots taken at maximum zoom (and Infinity focus) produced visibly unfocused photos. I'm planning to investigate this behavior.
Here are some of the first processed images from that day. As always, I have a lot of more to process
I really like this one. It's RAW (as every other my Ricoh photos). But honestly, the JPEG looks more or less the same. There is only a bit less noise and slightly more burned sky in JPEG shot. Otherwise, it's exactly the same. The sky looks as processed with some kind of HDR treatment, but it;s not. It's just the camera
I was so close to some dogs I was even able to smell their breath And as you can see, some of the dogs watched me with a great interest (probably as a possible object of dinner)..
There were a lot of guys there with a heavy photo gear (both pro or amateurs). I'm sure, they were able to get a lot of stunning photos with blurred background. But I was able to keep my camera in pocket without carrying a bag full of lenses and other photo equipment I missed only one thing with GX100..fast continuous mode in RAW. Missing RAW continuous mode is probably the biggest disadvantage of cameras like GX100 or GRD. I really wish a reasonable buffer to be implemented in next GX or GRD (capable of at least 3fps and 3-5 shots in a row). This would make the Ricoh cameras a really unique photographic gear, even with small sensor!
Because of difficult lightning and because of fast moving subjects, I decided to take all shots in full manual mode including manual focus. This was good choice for most of the shots. No matter how fast GX100 autofocus is, it cannot beat the Manual focus with preset distance. But of course, in some case it caused unsharp photos. From some strange reasons, some of the shots taken at maximum zoom (and Infinity focus) produced visibly unfocused photos. I'm planning to investigate this behavior.
Here are some of the first processed images from that day. As always, I have a lot of more to process
I really like this one. It's RAW (as every other my Ricoh photos). But honestly, the JPEG looks more or less the same. There is only a bit less noise and slightly more burned sky in JPEG shot. Otherwise, it's exactly the same. The sky looks as processed with some kind of HDR treatment, but it;s not. It's just the camera
I was so close to some dogs I was even able to smell their breath And as you can see, some of the dogs watched me with a great interest (probably as a possible object of dinner)..
There were a lot of guys there with a heavy photo gear (both pro or amateurs). I'm sure, they were able to get a lot of stunning photos with blurred background. But I was able to keep my camera in pocket without carrying a bag full of lenses and other photo equipment I missed only one thing with GX100..fast continuous mode in RAW. Missing RAW continuous mode is probably the biggest disadvantage of cameras like GX100 or GRD. I really wish a reasonable buffer to be implemented in next GX or GRD (capable of at least 3fps and 3-5 shots in a row). This would make the Ricoh cameras a really unique photographic gear, even with small sensor!