You want a placid life, find another planet

Lake 1

Lake 2

Lake 3

Monday was a busy day.

On August 1st I walked in Nuuksio, along the Korpinkierros route, doing a bit of exploring (and eating of blueberries) on the side. It was a hot day, but there was some wind to give a little bit of cooling.

I'm currently without a camera, as I gave the LX5 to my daughter who is traveling with her school class. I haven't yet got any serious withdrawal symptoms, but a couple of times I have wished to have a camera with me. Well, I have my mobile phone, but the Nokia E7 doesn't really work as a camera.

A week ago I had a look at what kind of cameras there are on the market right now, but nothing really engaged my interest. The Panasonic GM1 with the 24-64 equiv. lens would be almost pocketable but doesn't do macro, the Sony RX100 III is rather expensive and has usability issues, and the Panasonic LX7 isn't a great deal better than the LX5.

But at least we live in interesting times.

(Posting title is from the poem Interesting Times by Mark Jarman.)

Your closed eyes my extinction

Kaitalampi

Sunken

Silhouette

Once again, I commuted by bicycle today. A lot of things happened, and I'm still behind in taking care of things. Our two youngest daughters are still sick, but the oldest one was feeling good enough to ask me to go for a walk. So we went to lake Kaitalampi at Luukki, and walked there by the shore. It was a fine evening.

Andreas sent me a pointer to the Sony DSC RX100 preview samples at Dpreview, writing: "Look at the barrels. That's ISO 1600! And look at the white lamp: ISO 640 is essentially clean. Even the portrait of the young man at page 2 with ISO 2500 is perfectly usable. Pretty amazing."

What can I say, this was a surprise! Quite a camera from Sony. According to the preview, the RX100 does have really interesting specifications. And as Andreas noted, it even does 1:1.

Of course, the lens starting at 28 mm equiv. is a disappointment, but on the other hand the camera seems certainly competitive in other ways. The physical design seems to be workable, given the really small size for a one-inch sensor camera.

Oh well, I think my LX5 has still quite a lot of mileage in it. But the RX100 is seriously tempting, at least to get my hands on it to try how it feels to use.

(Posting title is from the poem This Room and Everything in It by Li-Young Lee.)