If all goes as planned, tomorrow, May 1st, will mark day 1 of my 365 days of IR photography.
Archive for April, 2009
Compact Point & Shoot vs. DSLR
Now that I own a higher end point and shoot camera, the Panasonic LX3, I have been following some of the LX3 communities on places like Flickr. One of the common themes is that with the high quality of the modern point and shoot, and the fact that the more pro level ones will shoot in RAW, there is no need for a DSLR.
I simply can not agree with that. This shot was taken with my Panasonic LX3, and while I am quite pleased with this shot, one thing that I discovered is that it would have been a lot easier to make this image with my Nikon D200. I made 10 exposures of this ride, and this is the only one that I was happy enough with to process.
The reason is that even with the high end point and shoot cameras, you are still limited to a very small sensor. I am not talking about mega-pixels here, I am talking about the physical size of the sensor. A physically bigger sensor means that each pixel site is bigger. The bigger the pixel site is, the better the quality of the information in that pixel will be.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying to avoid buying a good point and shoot, they really do have their place, but they simply are not a DSLR replacement.
Getting ready for 365 days of IR photography
I am getting ready to start a personal photo project. My goal is to take, and publish 1 IR photo a day for the next year.
In order to do this, I have had to make some changes in the hear that I carry with me everyday. Normally I carry my D200 with the Nikon 18-200 lens. It went everywhere with me.
Now that I will be carrying my Nikon D70sIR camera every day, it would simply be too much to carry the D200 also. This is where my new Panasonic LX-3 comes to the rescue.
My new daily carry bag will be the Panasonic LX-3 and the Nikon D70sIR. I will also have the odds and ends that every camera bag tends to have in it.
Today was my first day carrying that bag around. Today, and the rest of this week, will pretty much be a test to see if this bag setup and gear will fit my daily needs.
I am really looking forward to starting this project, and depending on how it goes, I might think about turning this into a photo book.
