Today went meeting relatives. I took many photos of family members using available light, and got about a dozen nice portraits. Me using a camera is such a common thing that nobody much notices it.
The LX3 is practically silent, and when using manual focusing there is no focus delay. It is a good tool for street photography as well as family portraiture. (I have done only the latter.)
However, our youngest one posed problems, as she was almost never still long enough to take a photo. But I did succeed once in taking a sharp photo of her. Here are a couple of photos from today, a bit of earthly feeling in them, I think.
Update: Shooting in available light today again confirmed that the firmware version 1.1 improved greatly the automatic white balance of the LX3. Only a couple of photos had a bad color cast, all the other photos were ok straight from the camera.
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You said: "However, our youngest one posed problems, as she was almost never still long enough to take a photo. But I did succeed once in taking a sharp photo of her. Here are a couple of photos from today, a bit of earthly feeling in them, I think."
I'm thinking about this camera for shooting kids without a flash. Did you try higher ISO? Overall do you think I'll end up using a bounce flash?
You can of course use higher ISO, but then you get a bit more noise. I have got nice results with both an external flash and shooting in available light.
If you really want to freeze motion, you need 1/100 or faster exposure, and that is hard to achieve even with high ISO when there is little available light.
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