I'm on a business trip to Bangkok, and just took a few photos to see what it's like to use my new Leica D-Lux 5.
I also uploaded some earlier photos from the Leica to my iPad to see bigger images.
Here are first impressions.
Here's a courtyard of the Raffles Hotel from the Leica boutique store. The wide angle using the 24 mm end of the D-Lux 5 instead of the usual 27 mm on DSLRs is a noticeable and welcome increase in wide angle coverage. Allows for new and interesting angles and views. In a casual shot, I also notice that it still exposes for and captures shadow detail.
Here's a other shot of the Raffles Hotel Shopping Arcade area just outside the Leica shop. Again you see the width of coverage of the 24 mm wide angle lens, along with some distortion that is characteristic with this type of shot, which gives an overall pleasant feel.
These 2 shots are from the window of our office conference room, showing the view of the Rajpruek Club golf course. One thing I learned from the manual, which is new to me as a Nikon user and it's quite nice to have, is that even in Snapshot full auto mode or Scene modes that are also full auto, you can still apply exposure compensation up to +\- 3.0 f-stops anytime!
Also, in Snapshot mode, the camera will actually detect what kind of shot you are taking, for example Portrait or Scenery, or day or night Portraits or Scenery, then it will display the scene it detected, then automatically apply enhancements such as making the greens of a scenery shot more vibrant.
Therefore so far, the camera performance and convenience plus joy to use are
looking great.
- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad
I also uploaded some earlier photos from the Leica to my iPad to see bigger images.
Here are first impressions.
Here's a courtyard of the Raffles Hotel from the Leica boutique store. The wide angle using the 24 mm end of the D-Lux 5 instead of the usual 27 mm on DSLRs is a noticeable and welcome increase in wide angle coverage. Allows for new and interesting angles and views. In a casual shot, I also notice that it still exposes for and captures shadow detail.
Here's a other shot of the Raffles Hotel Shopping Arcade area just outside the Leica shop. Again you see the width of coverage of the 24 mm wide angle lens, along with some distortion that is characteristic with this type of shot, which gives an overall pleasant feel.
These 2 shots are from the window of our office conference room, showing the view of the Rajpruek Club golf course. One thing I learned from the manual, which is new to me as a Nikon user and it's quite nice to have, is that even in Snapshot full auto mode or Scene modes that are also full auto, you can still apply exposure compensation up to +\- 3.0 f-stops anytime!
Also, in Snapshot mode, the camera will actually detect what kind of shot you are taking, for example Portrait or Scenery, or day or night Portraits or Scenery, then it will display the scene it detected, then automatically apply enhancements such as making the greens of a scenery shot more vibrant.
Therefore so far, the camera performance and convenience plus joy to use are
looking great.
- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad
Location:Grand Hyatt Erawan, Bangkok
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