On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Cotty <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/1/12, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed: > >>Cotty got the Fuji X10 raved how wonderful it was. It piqued my >>interest because the combination of a manually controlled zoom with a >>zooming optical finder seemed intriguing. I bought one. My sum up ... > > You sly dog!!!
Well, I figured that if I recommended it to my brother, I better have one because I'll be on the phone with him about it for hours if he buys one. ;-) >>- Overall, the picture quality was excellent but somehow lacking to my >>eye. Maybe I've gotten spoiled, but even my partner who isn't a >>photographer at all said, "They look nice. But they're flat, they >>don't seem to have the look that your other pictures do." > > Find this a bit odd. I have mine set to the Velvia setting and the tone > and colours jump out at me and grab me by the throat! I absolutely love > it! But surely this is to do with post-processing for printing? Um, no. I tried all the "film modes" and wasn't particularly thrilled with the rendering qualities. Velvia is over the top for me ... the colors are heavily saturated but the images lack something that i'm looking for. Perhaps it's "dimensionality" etc. Felipe's terrible at articulating what he means, but I had the same feeling. I'd put together a little sample gallery of processed JPEGs ... http://gallery.me.com/godders#100431 There are no "bad" photos there, technically, but they just lack something that's difficult to articulate when I compare them to what I get with my other cameras. They look like what I used to get with other small sensor cameras, and it just doesn't compel me: that's why I sold all of them. >>In the end, I couldn't think of a reason why I'd prefer to carry the >>Fuji X10 instead of my Ricoh GXR other than the availability of a >>short zoom lens with matched optical finder. That was just not enough. >>It's a good camera, just not for me. Back to the dealer it went. > > Fair enough! I am so glad I got one - it's just what I wanted! Yup. That's why it's good there are so many choices. The GXR makes it for me. For that "one camera to carry around the world," at present it would be the GXR with the M-lens camera unit and three lenses (like I had with me when I was visiting you in October), or just the GXR and the A12 50mm Macro. Size, weight, overall burden to deal with it about the same. Controls, build, features and image quality are outstanding, It's my number. I want a Leica M9 and I'll likely buy one soon, but whether I actually need more than what the GXR does ... well, I'm a realist: I know the answer to that. :-) -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
