X-VARIO @ 31mm. 1/15th sec F/4.1 @ ISO 400. JR Yamanote Line, Tokyo. Playing with a test camera in a city like Tokyo is a lot of fun… but all good things come to an end. I’m finally back home and now starting the daunting task of going through all my pictures. When you’re gone for a month you tend to take a lot of pictures… thousands in fact (2583 to be exact, minus film rolls and iPhone pics). To get a good idea of a camera’s characteristics of capturing an image, you need to do more than chimping (a sneak peak at back LCD screen). You need to open up the files and take a good look, trying to find specific qualities (not just resolution and colour accuracy) and image distinctiveness that make the pictures stand out. I did so with the Leica X-VARIO and I’ve come to appreciate the camera and the images I was able to create… X-VARIO at 70mm. 1/125th sec F/6.4 @ ISO 1600. Cropped. It’s impolite to eat in public so she was hiding in corner and eating something discreetly… so cute! JR Ak
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