DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY - Burbank Day + Fuji F710

Well, after meeting with some friends for lunch, I decided that to test my own skills and see how my use of another camera has changed, that I would go back to my old nice ultra compact F710 and do something with it again. I also plan to do one Street Night Life sequence with it. The short one I did was too hastily done and it was for me to test the waters.

I basically want to prove to many, that it's the photographer and not the camera, who makes far and away the biggest difference.  And I like the challenge of using an F710 for this.

 

Couple of observations:

 

• I tended to do      a lot of "crooked" (tilted) pictures. It's like I calibrated      myself around my e-volt and now I would have to "calibrate" my      intuition around the F710
• RAW files from      the F710 are truly wonderful when using either S7Raw or the very latest      Photoshop CS2 Raw converter.
• Depth of field      control is an issue (too much) and the only reasonable way I found to have      short depth of field was to use the macro mode
• The 5 shots per      second shot speed is wonderful. Even more wonderful is Fuji's "last 5      shot" mode where the camera will fire up to 40 shots, and when you      release the shutter (or it is at its 40-ieth shot), then it will save the      last five shots. This is good to      capture some action, and also allowed me to recompose dynamically for      alignment, as the camera shows each shot just taken very quickly
• The metering      seemed to be just a notch more painful to work with than the evolt, when      spot metering. Just requires a feel of where exactly the camera is      metering at
• ISO 1600 is      quite doable if you don't require a big size (images are 1 mega pixel      only) and you use black and white
• The F710 is a 3 megapixel camera that creates in RAW a 6 megapixel file due to Fuji's interpolation needs, as the camera captures a rotated image. But the resolution resembles about 4 megapixels in some cases.
  

As always, comments & critique welcome. Only 3-5 shots were converted from RAW, the rest are out of the camera jpegs. To convert I used S7raw, which is a great Fuji digital camera raw converter and has gotten better and better. It's also free though they accept donations, and it's from Japan.

The gallery is here.