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Kyoto's Ninenzaka street
Really liked this perspective of the ever popular, well preserved historical street of Kyoto.
It was late afternoon and the sun was blazing at a low angle illuminating the 2nd floor of the ancient buildings along one side of the street.
I think this looks great in Black & White due to the juxtaposition of light and shadow coupled with the feeling of nostalgia along this ancient street. No burnt highlights or high ISO grainy noise in this shot.
This street is also free of the overhead power lines that mar the rest of Kyoto thus enhancing and evoking the nostalgic feel.
The girl stopping for a sip, the man digging his ear, frozen in time along a street that’s frozen in time.
I’ve been checking up on the Ricoh GRiii as replacement. I once told a Flickr buddy that I shoot both FF and m4/3 formats and hence have no place for APS-C cameras. Well, my Ricoh GR is in fact APS-C but it’s such a special camera to me that I’ve never considered it in terms of sensor size. The Ricoh GR defies classification as it’s in a class of its own. Personally the Ricoh GR is my essential kit, if only it was built better it would be perfect!
There are some rumblings of the current GRiii heating up in use, mostly due to its IBIS which is new in the GRiii. IBIS is totally useless for street shots such as this, a built-in flash would have been more useful in general but unfortunately they removed this in the latest version. Marketeers masquerading as reviewers tell us that with IBIS, we can handhold at slower shutter speeds and hence negating the need for a built-in flash. Fact is, flash and IBIS are not quite fungible, the IBIS can never provide fill-in flash effects for instance.
The IBIS implementation on the GRiii is really poor, it should have been made to activate only on half press of the shutter so that it won’t stay on all the time causing the camera to heat up. In addition, the IBIS should be automatically deactivated if we are shooting it at shutterspeeds above 3x focal length.
Kyoto's Ninenzaka street
Really liked this perspective of the ever popular, well preserved historical street of Kyoto.
It was late afternoon and the sun was blazing at a low angle illuminating the 2nd floor of the ancient buildings along one side of the street.
I think this looks great in Black & White due to the juxtaposition of light and shadow coupled with the feeling of nostalgia along this ancient street. No burnt highlights or high ISO grainy noise in this shot.
This street is also free of the overhead power lines that mar the rest of Kyoto thus enhancing and evoking the nostalgic feel.
The girl stopping for a sip, the man digging his ear, frozen in time along a street that’s frozen in time.
I’ve been checking up on the Ricoh GRiii as replacement. I once told a Flickr buddy that I shoot both FF and m4/3 formats and hence have no place for APS-C cameras. Well, my Ricoh GR is in fact APS-C but it’s such a special camera to me that I’ve never considered it in terms of sensor size. The Ricoh GR defies classification as it’s in a class of its own. Personally the Ricoh GR is my essential kit, if only it was built better it would be perfect!
There are some rumblings of the current GRiii heating up in use, mostly due to its IBIS which is new in the GRiii. IBIS is totally useless for street shots such as this, a built-in flash would have been more useful in general but unfortunately they removed this in the latest version. Marketeers masquerading as reviewers tell us that with IBIS, we can handhold at slower shutter speeds and hence negating the need for a built-in flash. Fact is, flash and IBIS are not quite fungible, the IBIS can never provide fill-in flash effects for instance.
The IBIS implementation on the GRiii is really poor, it should have been made to activate only on half press of the shutter so that it won’t stay on all the time causing the camera to heat up. In addition, the IBIS should be automatically deactivated if we are shooting it at shutterspeeds above 3x focal length.