Just a Rose

GF1, f2.0, 1/50, ISO 400, JPG, 50mm (Voigtländer Nokton f0.95 25mm)

Not a great picture but it was raining the whole day so I was not inspired. Instead I just wanted to see if I can edit a full-size picture from the GF1 on the iPhone 4 using Photoshop Express.
After importing it using the Photo Sync app, it opened just fine in Photoshop Express and although there was a bit of lag in all operations it handled processing it very well. Saving it was again no problem and it saved it at the actual resolution.
You can see the result on the top and the starting image below.

Closeup at f0.95

GF1, f0.95, 1/30, ISO 200, JPG, 50mm (Voigtländer Nokton f0.95 25mm)

It was tempting to post some street shots or low light hots I took with the lens but after my complaint that the Nokton does not allow for enough finetuning of the focus between 2m and infinity while offering very good close up focusing abilities.
To test this, I decided to actually take a picture and it does indeed a very good job at it and allows for precise focusing. This picture is focused at the closest distance or 17cm.

Snow Rose

LC1, f2.8, 1/800, ISO 100, RAW, 90mm

Tomorrow, I will have the chance to meet Wouter and Björn, two excellent photographers from Holand.
I will also get a GXR sample with the 50mm A12 module to try for a few days.
For today's picture I have used the still excellent Panasonic LC1 and wanted to show the snow which did not feature enough in yesterday's picture.

The Rose

GRD, f2.4, 1/500, ISO 64, JPG, 40mm

The weather has been very nice today, sunny but a bit cold, so I decided to take a stroll through Greenwich Park on my way home. I took a few pictures there and while this was initially not my favorite I saw the potential for editing it to get the look I wanted. First I wanted to saturate it even more but decided against it. The end result is how I imagined it when I reviewed the shot on the camera.

Yesterday, I reported about the Ricoh dSLR rumor based on an interview with Ricoh from Photokina published in Amateur Photographer. I found this surprising having had a long chat with Ricoh and nothing like this has been mentioned. So I went out and bought the magazine today. To my disapointment there was no interview with Ricoh nor is the magazine any good.

I've seen some amazing photography magazines in Japan but the European magazines, so far, have all been a waste of paper. Here over half of the magazines are full of advertising, the camera tests consist of diagrams and charts but no pictures. In Japan the camera magazines are almos full of pictures taken with cameras, guides and tips how to take these pictures, camera tests consist of full-page pictures taken with the cameras and the print quality is a lot higher. This means that either people in Europe are obsessed with charts and advertising in photography magazines or the publishers care only about the money they get through advertising. You, like me, will probably chose the 2nd point as the more believable one ;).