Wet photographs

Leaf, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

Water, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

Green, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

Ferns, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

Despite the rain, we ventured outside today, to the Luukki nature park in Espoo. Here are some wet photographs.

One more for the night

Two leaves, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

As you see, we have had rainy weather. And more rain to come during the next few days.

It may be that we won't have any real autumn leaf colors this time; you need dry weather and cold nights for that to happen.

Camera buying instructions (LX5 etc.)

Rowan, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

Coltsfoot, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

Maple, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

Cedric asked me a question: "In Australia the LX5 is about $850 while the LX3 is about $450, do you think it's worth going for the LX5 or should I save myself $400?"

And here goes the answer, with my limited understanding of current cameras...

Australia has a rather extreme price difference, as here in Finland the prices of LX3 vs. LX5 are 368 euro vs. 468 euro. Almost double for the LX5 - that seems too much.

Note that you probably need a spare battery to go with the camera. And the LX5 batteries are chipped, so you can't buy them elsewhere than from Panasonic, and thus they are going to be expensive. With the LX3 I have been using a third party battery which has performed identically to the Panasonic one.

It would be good to check other compact cameras a well - at least Canon S90/S95. (There might be a dramatic price difference between the models here as well.) Or perhaps something like Canon Digital Ixus 300 HS, which seems to be a competent (although maybe also a bit expensive) little camera. A colleague was very impressed with this one.

But as I'm not "a camera guy", I probably missed a lot of potential alternatives. Also, if you aren't quite sure about switching to a compact camera, it is worthwhile to take extra care in finding a possible alternative to your current DSLR. There are advantages to the DSLR, and for some they are of critical importance, for example if you want to really push the images in post-processing.

Also, Cedric said that he only takes 700 photographs in a year. It is not the quantity but the quality which matters!

I have sometimes pondered to try shooting one photograph per day - no more than that. That would probably be quite interesting. It this one the photograph for today, or should I wait for the next opporturnity...

But for now I'll continue the way which seems to work for me.