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as mentioned several posts ago, ( here to be more specific,) i am now the proud owner of a spanking new panasonic lumix lx3. it's a pretty sweet camera... 10mpixel, hd video (720p @ 24fps), insanely wide-angled f2.0 lens, complete with optical image stabilization, all bundled up in a compact camera. i could go on and on about the specs/wax lyrical about all the good stuff... but, being me, i will instead air out my one gripe about it.
and my issue is this - with a 24mm-equivalent "ultra-wide-angle" lens on this camera, the 2.5x optical zoom (and no digital zoom) just doesn't cut it. don't get me wrong, i LOVE the wide-angle on this sweet little baby - it's insanely awesome - but when you get lens that shoot as wide as this one does, you practically have to be standing right next to your subject if you're not taking a landscape shot. any further than, say... 6 feet (approx.?) and you basically have no subject - it all blends into the background and your shot will look more like a landscape picture than anything else. so, while the camera is still a great macro-shooting camera and a totally rockin' landscape camera, it won't fare very well at... uhmm... concerts, for example. or anything where your subject might be a little further away than the usual compact-camera-point-and-shoot-range. but hey, you can't always get everything you want, right?
so... you may wonder - if this is such an awesome camera, why on earth am i only bitching about the lack of zoom? the answer, of course, is simple - i don't have to blog about the good points. i'll just let the camera speak for itself.
the pictures are mostly landscape shots of the beautiful Monterey, CA coastline... where i was for the first second time in my life this past weekend. i figured it was a great opportunity to give my new camera a first run, and i'm very impressed. i'll put a few preview pics on here (see below), but i'd still recommend you head on over to my flickr page for more.
speaking of which, i had an issue arise that i was wondering if any of you out there (if anyone actually reads this crap) can help me out with... i've also managed to stitch a few panoramic pictures together, and a basic (read: free) account on flickr just doesn't cut it - it's resized to microscopic proportions. anyone know of a better avenue to showcase those panoramas online? for FREE?? (yes, i am a cheap bastard. i know.)
(i like the color saturation on this first pic... this second pic is just awesome... and i think this third pic really showcases how wide this camera shoots.)
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and my issue is this - with a 24mm-equivalent "ultra-wide-angle" lens on this camera, the 2.5x optical zoom (and no digital zoom) just doesn't cut it. don't get me wrong, i LOVE the wide-angle on this sweet little baby - it's insanely awesome - but when you get lens that shoot as wide as this one does, you practically have to be standing right next to your subject if you're not taking a landscape shot. any further than, say... 6 feet (approx.?) and you basically have no subject - it all blends into the background and your shot will look more like a landscape picture than anything else. so, while the camera is still a great macro-shooting camera and a totally rockin' landscape camera, it won't fare very well at... uhmm... concerts, for example. or anything where your subject might be a little further away than the usual compact-camera-point-and-shoot-range. but hey, you can't always get everything you want, right?
so... you may wonder - if this is such an awesome camera, why on earth am i only bitching about the lack of zoom? the answer, of course, is simple - i don't have to blog about the good points. i'll just let the camera speak for itself.
the pictures are mostly landscape shots of the beautiful Monterey, CA coastline... where i was for the first second time in my life this past weekend. i figured it was a great opportunity to give my new camera a first run, and i'm very impressed. i'll put a few preview pics on here (see below), but i'd still recommend you head on over to my flickr page for more.
speaking of which, i had an issue arise that i was wondering if any of you out there (if anyone actually reads this crap) can help me out with... i've also managed to stitch a few panoramic pictures together, and a basic (read: free) account on flickr just doesn't cut it - it's resized to microscopic proportions. anyone know of a better avenue to showcase those panoramas online? for FREE?? (yes, i am a cheap bastard. i know.)
(i like the color saturation on this first pic... this second pic is just awesome... and i think this third pic really showcases how wide this camera shoots.)
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