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01/25/2009 12:38:20 AM · #1 |
After purchasing my first DSLR in the fall, I couldn't wait to get back outside and do some more street photography (I was really into it with last fall's side challenge). Then all hell broke loose. There was more of a learning curve to the thing than I realized, the weather turned cold, the holiday season in all its joyous madness came and went, the weather turned even colder...
Friday, we finally had a decent day and I had some time after work and, for the first time, I reached a certain comfort level with this bulky thing -- and so I got a batch of street shots that represents my first real undertaking with a "big people's" camera.
I'm still not terribly comfortable with it, and I have my eye on the new Sigma DPx series cameras as a stealthier alternative. But I'm very pleased with the image quality. These were all shot at ISO 400, and I don't have nearly the noise issues I had with my point and shoot. Also, editing in all cases here was minimal -- mostly contrast or curves adjustments and sharpening.
Thanks for looking and listening.
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01/25/2009 12:57:21 AM · #2 |
| I can see the difference. Is the SLR more obvious for street photography? I'm would think more people notice you with that bigger camera now. |
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01/25/2009 07:17:02 PM · #3 |
It's bigger so it's harder to hide. With my P&S, my hand fit almost entirely around it, so it was easy to manipulate and hide. The E-520 is larger, of course. For these shots, I had the camera hanging around my neck, right at my belly. I had it slightly inside my coat (black), and manipulated it with my hands in my pockets. Some people noticed the camera, but not becuase they thought I was doing anything with it. Silly, maybe, but it allowed me to get up close in some cases, which is what I like. I hate using zoom.
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01/25/2009 07:27:14 PM · #4 |
| I wonder how a Lumix DMC-L10 (with face detection) and a 25mm f/2.8 Pancake Zuiko Lens workout for street photography. Otherwise I think a lot of folks would love it if Olympus comes out with this camera. |
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01/25/2009 09:48:51 PM · #5 |
I looked at the Lumix, but I'm still drawn to the Sigma DP1 (flaws and all). I love the image quality -- it has a film-like smoothness that is irresistable. I'm waiting now to see what the DP2 is all about though...
The E-520 also has face detection, but I havent't tried it out yet (although it seems to turn itself on accidentally, so maybe I have!). And, yes, that Olymnpus prototype is raising a lot of eyebrows.
I updated one of my images below, as I thought it looked better in color. |
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01/25/2009 10:24:28 PM · #6 |
| You know what would be great for street photography? Tethered shooting, with the display going into one of those sets of glasses with a monitor built into it. You could frame the image and nobody would knnow it was not just hanging around your neck. |
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01/25/2009 11:13:14 PM · #7 |
I rememeber back in the 70's or so that Pentax (I think it was) had this lens that had a cutout on the side with a mirror. Basically it photographed at a 90 degree angle to where you were aiming. Since this was mounted on a Pentx film slr, you would see what you were actually looking at. So you could be shooting straight ahead and actually be shooting to your left (as I recall). I think it was a mild telephoto - maybe in the 85mm-ish range. That lens always intrigued me. ANy film photographers remember this one?
Message edited by author 2009-01-25 23:14:26. |
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01/25/2009 11:35:47 PM · #8 |
//www.camerafilters.com/pages/rightanglelenses.aspx
Is that what you meant? I had thought about getting one of those too. :-) |
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01/26/2009 12:10:40 PM · #9 |
| I like seeing it mounted to an Olympus. I wonder how much of a hit you take in image quality... |
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01/26/2009 07:14:38 PM · #10 |
Yes, that is it at least in principle. Am going back 30+ years in memory (the brain cells...the - brain - cells...SPOCK! SPOCKKKK!!!)
::ahem::
But yes, that is the idea but as I recall this was actually a lens with the mirror incorporated as opposed to an add-on. Can't even remmeber if it was screw mount or bayonet. But it was back in the day when screw mounts were still being used regularly.
Message edited by author 2009-01-26 19:15:05. |
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