A couple of weeks ago I returned from a holiday in Japan. We visited many cities, including Tokyo, Kyoto, Hiroshima and Osaka, as well as lots of other places. It was a fantastic tour, with so much to see and do - the people are wonderfully friendly, and the food... wow. The photographer in me was keen to snap away at absolutely everything - thankfully I managed to rein that in, to actually enjoy and see Japan without being stuck behind the viewfinder. Still, the vital statistics... ~800 photos in JPEG and RAW format, filling two 8GB SDHC cards, as well as some 1080P AVCHD video. Once I've had a proper look at them, I'll start to submit my best ones to Deviant Art to share with the rest of you.
It wasn't all good news though. One memory card consistently gave write errors, meaning I was never confident that a shot would be saved, nor that any of the other photos would be on the card on my return. Has anyone else had any problems with the SanDisk 8GB Ultra? Also, my old Olympus u700 compact camera gave up the ghost midway through the trip, reporting hex-errors whenever it was switched on. Though this was a pain at the time, on the bright side it does mean that I can finally invest in a new compact! Which I did today - picked up a Samsung WB700 from Park Cameras.
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Micro Four Thirds brilliance
Before I went on holiday, I upgrade from a Panasonic Lumix GH2 which has been pretty much the best camera I've used or owned. The GH3 which has replaced it is amazing as well, but just seems to lack some of the soul which made the GH2 a bit less of a tool than the newer GH3 is.
The GH3 performed wonderfully in Japan and Hong Kong. Auto ISO (limited to max 6400) and Auto WB set, and rarely missed a beat. Even with an ND8 on my fast primes so that I could shoot wide open in bright sunshine, the images from darker areas at higher ISOs were crisp and delightful. The autofocus on the camera is also top-notch, nailing focus in low-light as easily
Help the BHF
Hello all! I'm back after a nice long holiday, taking in the delights of Japan and Hong Kong. I took too many photos in the former, and not many in the latter. Suffice it to say that two weeks in Japan left me with nearly three thousand images to go through, so as you can imagine I am still in the process of working out what is worth showing both here and elsewhere.
Anyway, I need to let some of you know about a very long walk I am doing in June - the 64-mile London to Brighton walk! This is to raise money and awareness for the British Heart Foundation. I'm currently training for it by doing twenty-odd mile walks with the other members of my
Look Forward
So much to write, so little time....
As I mentioned last time, I'm continuing with my photo 365 project. This has meant that I'm developing an image every evening for upload to my Flickr page, but rarely putting anything on DA at present. I really need to have a trawl through what I've already uploaded (all 69 images) to see if there's anything worthy of display on my DA page - I like to keep this for my good stuff. ;) So if you were wondering why I've been quiet, that's the main reason!
Last week, I picked up a new camera body - the Panasonic Lumix GH3. Always been a Panasonic fan since buying my FZ50 bridge camera, and have since progress
Out with 2013
I'm glad to see the back of it frankly. A bad year for my family and I, a very bad year.
We learnt around March time that my mother had cancer, and despite the excellent work done by the doctors and nurses at the various hospitals in and around Sussex, she passed away in November. She was followed mere weeks later by her mother and my nan. Both are greatly missed, and a huge hole has opened up in my life. We are all looking to 2014 to be a year of happiness and positivity.
So photography-wise, I haven't really been in the mood this year, particularly towards the end of 2013. I was lucky enough to be able to sell some shares in October, allo
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Looking forward to seeing the pics. 