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

Subject: Re: [OM] OT: NX200 -- first outing.
From: Rick Beckrich <rbeckrich@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:55:39 -0500
Lovely party Chris... Looks like all had a great time. Merry Christmas.

On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Looks like a nice party, in any event :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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> 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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