Thames Festival 2011

I borrowed a friend's Fuji X100 for the day and headed to the Thames festival. It started off as a hot and sunny day with a few clouds before it changed completely and the rain started to come down. This was a good reason to take a break over a pint but was not very good for photography.

This is a small series of some of my favourite pictures from the day, all converted from RAW. Not much has changed from my initial impressions of the Fuji X100, it's a great camera marred by a beta firmware.

Thames Festival

Today it will be more pictures and less talk from me. Spent most of the day walking around the Thames Festival taking pictures. Took only the LC1 with me and got through almost two batteries, it really consumes a lot of power even if you only use the EVF. In manual focus it preformed great, was fast and easy to use. Only problems came up as soon as the light levels dropped and the f2 lens with a max. ISO of 400 were not good enough to capture the action and it was a pain to focus fast enough with the lens at f2. This is why I need a camera with a very fast lens and at least ISO 1600 at least in GRD I quality.
Anyway, enjoy my ten of my favorite pictures, if I would have to select only one image it would have been the last one. All taken as JPGs and slightly processed, mostly noise reduction and contrast adjustments with some cropping. More pictures will be uploaded to Flickr soon.