Happy New Year…
2011.12.31
Canon S70 f2.8 1/15s ISO100
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Brick and tile verandah
2011.12.29
Canon S70 f5.3 1/250s ISO100
Brick and tile varandahs
With constant sunshine in Western Australia every building needs a verandah to shade windows from the sun. The verandahs of Perth take many forms but one of the stranger solutions is the roof tile verandah. Yes, they act as a shade but over the course of a day these thick overlapped fired clay tiles act as a heat sink absorbing the suns heat then radiating heat back again once the sun has passed. Most of these buildings were built in the 60′s 70′s and early 80′s they were the result of cheap bricks and tiles made locally with a surplus, dare I say subsidized natural gas from the Northwest shelf of W.A. As a result they became the cheapest building materials available, so cheap in fact that bricks were exported to SE Asia. In the case of roof tiles they were used ‘ad nauseam’ and where from a conservation perspective they never should have been used at all. To make matters worse sometimes we have cool wet winters then the bricks and tiles once rained upon act as giant evaporative coolers just at the time of year when a bit of heat is needed for the comfort of the beings inside the buildings… Need less to say this bazaar situation arose as a result of political opportunism and the need for the political masters of the day to prove that they had done something good. W.A. did for a while have some of the cheapest houses in country all built of double brick. So much so as Perth is now known as the double brick capital of Australia
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Corrugation…
2011.12.28
Canon S70 f5 1/100s ISO100
The Canon S70 was the first digital P&S I owned and apart form the limit of ISO 400 its not a bad little camera. Unusually for the time it has an f2.8 lens which when used wide open has a reasonable bokeh at the longer end of the telephoto range and in the mid range it is needle sharp. Also unlike most of its contemporaries it has a viewfinder!!! Shutter lag is about average for cameras of 2004. They can be had on eBay for as little as $65 a bargain by any standard… This one is not for sale!
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Lloyd Chamber’s thinks not…
2011.12.28
Following Michael Reichmann’s extensive review and thoughts on the Sony NEX 7, Lloyd Chamber’s adds his views. Interestingly his comments echo my thoughts after I learned that there are a few hardware similarities between the NEX 7 and Sonys DSLR’s… My source was Amateur Photographer 5/11/11 and 12/11/11
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Camera talk; will the Sony NEX 7 replace my 5D’s?
2011.12.27
There was an interesting post on Serious Compacts from member wt21 who has owned 2 NEX cameras and sold them off I was curious as the day previous I read the rolling review from Michael Reichmann (NEX-7 vs M9 Part Deux) I was impressed to say the least. The EP2 which I have used for some of my work is a really good little camera. I have been a fan of Olympus cameras since the OM1 In that case you might wonder why do I use Canons for 75% of my work. the answer is simple – Full Frame. For magazine work size matters, and while some of the APS produce wonderful results editors want often want larger files so now that a 24mp camera that takes all the major legacy lens marques looks like a usable substutute. so here are my reasons for the NEX to be NEXT perhaps…
Originally Posted by Pelao 
You might consider coming at this from a different angle. A couple of questions to ponder:
- Are you happy / unhappy with your current cameras and lenses? Do they limit you in any way?
- What do you like to shoot, what might you like to shoot that you haven’t yet tried, and under what lighting?
- How do you output your photographs: do you mainly publish online and view on a screen, or do you print? If the latter, how large?
- Are you happy / unhappy with your current cameras and lenses? Do they limit you in any way?
- What do you like to shoot, what might you like to shoot that you haven’t yet tried, and under what lighting?
- How do you output your photographs: do you mainly publish online and view on a screen, or do you print? If the latter, how large?
You have some nice gear. But it may be limiting you. Find out how and that will point you to what you need.
My Reply
Thanks Pelao,
I appreciate and thank you for your comments I see where you are coming from. I agree with you that less is more especially if one is his own master! I like David du Chemins ideas with this movement, however…
For the last eight years EOS digitals with L lenses have gotten larger and heavier. Up until comparatively recently I have used them exclusively for my work which is mostly gardens botanical, agricultural and some architectural work. I often work in 40 + degrees C (in the shade) and sometimes have walk considerable distances in those temperatures with a largish tripod and (I try to set limits on) three or four lenses. Early and late shoot times are not always possible either (thank heaven for HDR). Wheeled lowe pro’s are out of the question – rough ground! so its a backpack. In an attempt reduce the weight and ultimately the strain on my aging body I recently switched to an M9 which I like very much, Its good for most of the work but I also need another light camera for macro and a small amount of telephoto work, I have been using the EP2 with an assortment of lenses for some time, but the file size is just a bit small – editors crop and crop again! I also find the EP2 a bit slow. I would like a Macro Elmar for the M9 but there are none available in Oz to even test drive and then there is the cost… So with all the above taken into account the Nex 7 looks very promising especially after the recent comments from Michael Reichmann (http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/nex_7_vs_m9_part_deux.shtml) Then there’s also promise from Fuji, Canon and then next year perhaps the M10…
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Light woodland…
2011.12.26
Leica M9 f11 1/250s ISO160 Voigtlander 35mm f1.4
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Seasons Greetings, Buon Natale, a new tree in the Jarrah forest…
2011.12.25
Here’s wishing every one who visits this site a very merry Christmas and a happy, healthy and prosporous new year. Thank you all for your comments both public and private and I am looking forward to 2012 hopefully with more time to spend doing what I love the most, photographing this wonderful world and stamping my interpretation of it on my photographs on Perceptivelight.com.
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Brick and stone…
2011.12.23
Leica M9 f13 1/180s ISO160 Voightlander 35mm f1.4
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Views from the rear… For Sale!
2011.12.22
Leica M9 f16 1/45 ISO160 Voigtlander f1.4 35mm
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