Today was a wet day once again, and a cold one, but we went for a walk anyway, to the Tremanskärr marsh area nearby. Here are two photographs taken there, showing both the lack of bright light, and the deep colors due to the wetness. There were a lot of mosquitoes, and thanks to the wetness, we will probably get even more of them.
Update: Dpreview has made their evaluation of the Sony NEX-5, recommended reading. My previous doubts about the camera seems to be confirmed: "... its small, sleek, well built body contains one of the strangest interfaces we've encountered in a long time. The images are up with the best in its class but the user experience is disappointing."
On the other hand, Luminous Landscape gives the Samsung EX1 (TL500) a quite positive review. (They misspell the name as EX-1 occasionally, though.) It seems that this is a camera worth checking out. Maybe not an LX3 killer, however.
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Two convincing images, and good PR for the square format. Especially the #2 image shows a lovely low DoF.
Trying myself, I have a hard time visualising the square format in my DSLR viewfinder (and I gave up before reaching tangible results), but the LX3 offers this aspect ratio as a genuine format - unusual, all compact cameras I know tend into panoramic formats if anything else.
There still seems to be no real competition for the LX3 - the S90 maybe, but it has other flaws. I too am a bit disappointed by the new Sonys, but even more on the lens size of the standard zoom. I had hoped for a smaller camera/lens combination with an APS-C sensor (for good high-iso IQ) but this seems to be difficult to achieve. And I definitely do not want a camera that hides important functions in menus - I hate this way of interaction. So I, too, will have to wait.
Having 1:1 aspect ratio directly on screen does help learning the possibilities. Well, at least it is a fun experiment.
The sensor of the LX3 offers "native" 4:3, 3:2 and 16:9 aspect ratios, but 1:1 is a crop, so there is some loss there - those bits can't be recovered.
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