I’ve had a new tool for a month now. It’s a camera to have fun with like the photo on the right of the shadows of my legs on my driveway. I’ve been testing what it can do and learning its controls so I can use them quickly and well in a pinch. It is the Panasonic LX7, a “pocket camera” that I will be inclined to carry and use in situations where my bigger cameras would be left behind. I reported on its features and showed some initial photos in an earlier Blog Post, “LX7 First Ten Days“.
When I’m using a camera with tiny sensor, I almost always use the lowest ISO available. But occasionally I am forced to push things a bit. I ran a test and shot the following photo at ISO 3200. I did some careful noise reduction in ACR and also used a third-party plug-in to reduce noise further on the full-sized JPEG before downsizing and sharpening. Not really a scientific exploration and I hope I never have to go anywhere nearly this high with the LX7 again, but I was pleased with the result.
Ever since the digital age, I’ve enjoyed making multi-shot panoramas. Below are a few I made with the LX7 in the last few weeks. The full-sized version of one of the pans in the brief show below is 240MP.
I enjoy photographing birds, normally with a long lens. However, sometimes one can work within the limitations of the 90mm (equivalent) lens of the LX7. Here is a Common Redpoll, a winter visitor from Canada photographed two days ago with the LX7. The photo is only minimally cropped. So how did I do this?
Here are some more photos I took with the LX7 in the last 20 days.
