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Re: [OM] OT: NX200 -- first outing.

Subject: Re: [OM] OT: NX200 -- first outing.
From: Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:53:45 +0100
Looks like a nice party, in any event :-)

Cheers,
Nathan

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YNWA



On Dec 18, 2011, at 8:25 AM, Chris Barker wrote:

> Well, I bought another compact system camera.  I had planned to go the Panny 
> GX1 route since I really liked the 20/1.7, but the appearance of the NX200 
> was auspicious and I received mine about a week ago.  It lacks the 
> connectivity of Ken's camera, but has the benefit of interchangeable lenses: 
> I bought the 30/2 and 16/2.4.
> 
> Its first real test was indoor and low-light photography -- some of our 
> students enjoying their Christmas Ball.  The exposures were fine, and the 
> little flash did well (I am comparing it with the GF1 which did so well at 
> these occasions) but I had left it on AWB (from a firmware update) and the 
> results were quite desaturated.  I will do as Ken suggested years ago, leave 
> it on Daylight and accept the colour cast as being similar to using daylight 
> colour film.  If that doesn't do the trick, I shall have to see about using 
> the Custom features, as Ken does so effectively with his E1.
> 
> I can't yet use RAW with the camera, owing to the fact that Apple doesn't yet 
> support such files, and I'm not going to use Samsung's awful converter 
> software, but it's probably better to stick with jpegs anyway as the RAW 
> files are quite large -- at 45Mb plus.
> 
> <https://picasaweb.google.com/flyulas/ChristmasBall2011?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCPmb24WV-MLKTw&feat=directlink>
> 
> Some shots are with the Pentax K-5 and Metz 44 flash, the later shots are 
> NX200 ones.  There is little artistic merit to these images, and they were 
> taken, for the most part, by people who had had a little to drink . . .
> 
> Chris
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