new toy

[corks67]

recently through the wonder of ebay picked up a s/h Fuji S3 Pro dslr in really good condition and a Nikon lens for about $700(Australian, new i think they were about $2k) from a geeky pov I'm interested in the Fuji Super CCR way of doing things and ad the price was right


still reading throught the manual and got a lot to learn still , but recently took a couple of happy snaps. Weather and time permitting try and get some better ones happening.....

molly the wonder cat who's always an (un)willing model




and today a guy came over with his bobbed kwaka VN800 - alas could have down with better weather and more sun and the piccies dont seem to responded too well to be resized down to 800x ???

[Anathema]

Nice cat pics. Was it all done with natural light?

[corks67]

yes just the morningish sun :-)

[SS904]

Cool choice. I remember when that camera came out. I was thinking, in theory at least, that sensor would closely emulate the dynamic range of film.

Have you had a chance to really shoot with it and compare?

[corks67]

not yet , only just got last week - still wondering whether to get a better for it , i was thinking of one of the 24-70mm f2.8 zoomies

[corks67]

still mucking around with and still reading the manual

no touchups


little bit to get colour sorted


little bit of lightening-up


this one of the film simulations modes (bright one) untouched


the less bright fim simulation - untouched


molly throught the flywire


i'm actually quite proud of this one - bit of colouring and contrast


a bit of creative cropping- untouched


taken in perth city at a camera shot, trying a slightly faster zoom lens than the one i've got at the moment (untouched)

[Stasher]

The pictures of Molly should be on the wall at your house for sure. You never mentioned which Nikon lense you had.

[corks67]

thanks, im still at the hit n miss point, 1 photo wil turn out good and another wont - practice pratice i guess.

ooops lens, when i got the S3 , i had to get a lens to suit, so quickly raided ebay.au and scored a Nikon 18-70mm 1:3.5 - 4.5 which all these were taken with except the cars one which got taken with similar Nikon lens except i think it was 2.8 - 4, from memory.

but i had a win last night, went to a pro photographer who was selling off my gear to make way for more gear, ended up getting a Sigma f2.8 24-70mm (bloody heavy thing) and a Nikkor f1.4 50mm lens for a very good price, so some more lenses to play with it

taken at the guys house, his backyard - (24-70 lens) no flash and iso400 -original


cropped (got rid of the lightbulb..ooops) and touched up abit


50mm lens - iso1600 oops meant to switch it back to 100 - untouched


same as above including iso

[epl]

nice bobber....

[Duc916]

nice back patio!