Today I crossed the 50,000 photographs milestone with the Panasonic LX5. I have had it for six months now, and it has worked well all this time, even in winter weather.
One of the good points about the LX5 is the battery endurance, as I'm getting over 1000 photographs with one charge. The average may be about 1200, but I haven't really kept count. Now that it is winter the battery may have less juice, but I haven't noticed any drastic problems.
Today the temperature rose to about -6 °C in Helsinki, but now we are at -15 °C, and it is getting colder. Real winter weather. And there is frost in addition to snow, which changes the landscape a bit.
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You take an incredible number of photos, Juha! :) You leave no shutter actuations remaining when you finish with your camera. I like it! Looking at your numbers, I feel my cameras are way underutilized!
Juha, you're a maniac. On the LX5 I've had 7592 shutter actuations so far. In almost a year. And you had yours for only what? Nine months? :)
Congratulations to 50.000 photos!
I espesially like your photos from today in the "blue hour" when there is still some daylight remaining in the sky. Do you use the original lenscap? I think it is quite unpractical.
Greetings, Hagen
@Paul: I think there is a lot of durability in the LX camearas. My LX3 was still doing well after 203,318 photographs, it was the thunderstorm that killed it...
@Andreas: It was six months ago I got the LX5.
@Hagen: Yes, I use the original lenscap. I have grown used to it, and I got a lot of practice with the LX3 already. By now using the lenscap is instintive.
In fact, my whole approach is instinctive - "Do not think, just react". When I sense something worth of a photograph, I raise the camera and take one or several shots. I try not to think of taking a photograph at all while I'm doing this. Often I succeed nowadays.
Another thing is that I delete 90-95% percent of the photographs when first viewing them on the computer. And I avoid post-processing at all costs.
Six months??? All the worse. You're not only a maniac, you're a beast :D :D :D
That's about 275 images per day. Every day. I guess I've made that many images once or twice in all the last years, and certainly not on work days. Incredible!
@Andreas: Well, I have taken most of my photographs while going for a walk ... so it is a lot of walking was well.
And thinking of walking, I'm sure the world would be a better place if people would be walking more. Especially those people in power.
In fact, I think I like walking more than taking photographs.
@Juha: I love walking, too, but most times I leave the camera behind. I'm either walking OR photographing. I've tried to do the two together, and one of two things happen: Either, I don't get very far, but get a lot of pictures, or I get pretty far, but don't get any pictures. I guess that I just don't multitask well!
@Paul: I admit that there are times when I don't get very far either.
But somehow walking gets me into a mood when taking photographs gets fluid, almost effortless, no thinking (and no conscious multitasking!) needed.
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