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This could technically belong to tiny sensor revenge too.

Nice poppy shots from the QX10, Sury

Interesting thread you've started here Surry. How do you like the QX10? How's it compared to your mobile phone/serious camera? Haven't yet met anyone with it, so I'm curious..

-Toni

ps. the photos you've posted look ok and have very good colors, but at the same time bit of a soft and glowing.

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Toni Ahvenainen (1976)
Year of the Alpha - 52 Weeks of Sony Alpha Photography: http://www.yearofthealpha.com
Flickr-account: http://www.flickr.com/photos/109262328@N06/

Toni,
Thank you. Soft; Yes I have noticed that too and I think it is more due to pilot error than anything else.
Could you elaborate the glow part of it please? Either it is my post processing or a phenomenon I am not (yet)
familiar with.

Sury

At Santa Cruz, California Board Walk.


A comparative image to Seal with a kiss:



Food at a Thai Restaurant.

sury wrote:Toni,
Thank you. Soft; Yes I have noticed that too and I think it is more due to pilot error than anything else.
Could you elaborate the glow part of it please? Either it is my post processing or a phenomenon I am not (yet)
familiar with.

With a 'glow' I mean the effect when color and lumiosity spills over and makes photograph look soft (and to my eye a lens without a good contrast). First set, second picture, the candle holders glow. Same set, third picture, the container of the fountain glows. I suspect this is because you might have adjusted negative clarity in Lightroom (or other software you might use). If you have LR, you can easily demonstrate 'the glow' for yourself by adjusting clarity down. I know some people like it and it fits in some situations, but, for me, most of the situations it makes photograph look low fidelity because the lack of contrast. But it's a personal thing..

You didn't mention anything about how it is to use youe QX10 compared to normal camera?

-Toni

ps. First pic of the second set is cool. We used to have similar machines here when I was young. Haven't seen them after that. Good shot!

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Toni Ahvenainen (1976)
Year of the Alpha - 52 Weeks of Sony Alpha Photography: http://www.yearofthealpha.com
Flickr-account: http://www.flickr.com/photos/109262328@N06/

Toni,
Thank you for the explanation. I see what you mean now. It is a combination of
trying to "learn" how to use the contraption and post processing, I suppose.

Here is the original. From which you can either eliminate the post processing or the camera
as a possible culprit.




As for the camera it is a better deal than the smart phone camera my wife uses today. The
low light performance of the camera is way better than her smart phone and better than my
SLR. I fully have not explored the buttons yet (not that there are many). Since any size image
can be transferred to the smartphone in addition to saving on local media, my wife likes it because
of instant updates she can make to Facebook. With firmware update, we gain manual ISO, WB adjustments.
It is a point & shoot camera which offers a whole new dimension
of perspectives that I could not even think possible with a dslr. Being very small, you can hang
it off a gorilla pod in ways that I did not before. The food photos where taken with camera held
in my had with top view and my daughter directing my position before clicking. That is one example.

Here is another example where I put the camera on the ground on a gorilla pod, and took the shot.

sury wrote:Toni,
As for the camera it is a better deal than the smart phone camera my wife uses today. The
low light performance of the camera is way better than her smart phone and better than my
SLR. I fully have not explored the buttons yet (not that there are many). Since any size image
can be transferred to the smartphone in addition to saving on local media, my wife likes it because
of instant updates she can make to Facebook. With firmware update, we gain manual ISO, WB adjustments.
It is a point & shoot camera which offers a whole new dimension
of perspectives that I could not even think possible with a dslr. Being very small, you can hang
it off a gorilla pod in ways that I did not before. The food photos where taken with camera held
in my had with top view and my daughter directing my position before clicking. That is one example.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. It's interesting and makes me wonder where the camera tech is going..

-Toni

--
Toni Ahvenainen (1976)
Year of the Alpha - 52 Weeks of Sony Alpha Photography: http://www.yearofthealpha.com
Flickr-account: http://www.flickr.com/photos/109262328@N06/

Toni,
Yes, indeed. It is interesting. These intersections of technologies are leading to interesting scenarios.

Sury