Author: Vincent
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Pic of the Day – Southern Cassowary
The Southern Cassowary (Casuarius casuarius) is a large bird which can be found in Queensland, New Guinea and eastern Indonesia. They are secretive by nature so are hard to spot in the wild.
This image was captured at David Fleay’s Wildlife Park. A great place to take the family out for a picnic.
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Adobe LR or CaptureOne for Fujifilm
Anthony Morganti has presented an unbiased example of developing a Fujifilm raw file using both of the 2 most popular editors available today and demonstrates the shortcoming of each.
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Pic of the Day – Brisbane’s little Flat Iron
Wandering around Brisbane a few months ago I came across this building, I immediately thought about the Flat Iron building in New York.
While not as magnificent as the one in New York, this is as close as I am going to get to one.
- Fujifilm X-T3
- 1/8000 sec. f/1.4 35mm, iso200
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Pic of the Day – Coronavirus
- Fujifilm X-T3
- 1/320 sec. f/5 25.4mm, iso 320
A walk around Brisbane CBD yesterday, just as many people with facemasks on as without.
2020 is turning out to be a tough year, and a bad start to the decade down here in Australia.
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Pic of the Day – Light Trails
Life is whizzing past, already into the third month of the year.
- Fujifilm X-T3
- 30 sec. f/18 10mm, iso 200
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Pic of the Day – Story Bridge at Dusk
- Fujifilm X-T3
- 1/2sec, f-20, iso800
- Samyang 8mmFish-eye
My first outing with this neet little lens. I didn’t have my tripod with me so I just rested the camera on a fence to get this shot.
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Link – Instagram: Straight talk for Photographers
An excellent talk by Sean Tucker.
Sean gives perspective and possibly another use for Instagram. Certainly opened my mind to how I use Instrgram.
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Pic of the Day – The Spit
- Fujifilm X-T3
- 10mm, f10, iso 160
- 20 sec
Fist sunrise shoot with my X-T3, I must say I am very happy with the image quality. Great sunrise with the lady standing still in the frame was a good piece of luck.
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Pic of the Day – Moogerah Dam
Second outing with the Fujifilm X-T3.
Plenty of fires around QLD and NSW, the firefighters are doing it tough at the moment.
- Fijifilm X_T3
- 13 sec. f/16 18mm, iso 80
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Changing to Fujifilm?
This week I have got myself a Fujifilm X-T3 camera.
Fujifilm has piqued my interest since the launch of the X-T3 camera about a year ago, it was then that I began to think about mirrorless cameras. The X-T3 is an APS-C camera, the difference with Fujifilm is that they make first class lenses for their cameras, and since they are made for the crop sensor, they are about 2/3 the size and weight of a similar full frame lens. This is where Canon and Nikon let their APS-C systems down, they only make consumer grade lenses for their crop cameras. Sure you could just use a full frame lens on a crop camera body, but then you might as well get a full frame camera.
So, why the change? The last holiday I was on I quickly realized that the full frame Canon system I have is a bit of a beast to lug around. Excellent image quality, but wondering around during the middle of the day taking holiday pics I am sure I could have got the same shots using a smaller system with very similar results. So it got me thinking about trying out a new system.
But what to change to? Micro 4/3? Seems to me that if I went that small a sensor, I might as well just use a phone camera, after all there’re getting that good that doing holiday snap shots is no problem. My biggest fear with 4/3 system is the low light performance. When I did look into them last year I was thinking of getting second hand system to try out. The number one reason people seemed to be selling their micro 4/3 systems was to move to full frame.
Mmmm, maybe going from full frame to micro 4/3 is too much of a jump, after all I am a bit of a pixel peeper so if the image quality is not there……..
I haven’t made up my mind about whether the Fuji will replace my Canon gear yet, at this stage I want to try it out. I will write my thoughts out a bit more as time goes along so keep an eye out for my progress.
