Today I took a walk through the centre of my home city - Lodz, to take as many pictures as possible and make myself familiar with my new camera. So there are my impressions:
1. The Samsung GX 10 camera is very fast (compared to my old ones). Memory buffer is very big, so there is no problem in 3 or 5 shots sequences, especially while using bracketing - to merge photos taken with different shutter time or aperture to one file. Bracketing with fast 5 shots sequence is also an excellent with Tv or Av programs. You can roughly adjust aperture or shutter time, and with one klic you can have 5 pictures taken in different adjustments.
2. Fast autofocus. It is my first digital SLR camera. Before that I had been using only analog SLRs (Zenit ET and Praktica BX20) without AF. My last camera - hybrid Konica Minolta A1 DiMage has very slow autofocus. Sometimes it took ages to make it work. My ne Samsung GX 10 is pretty fast compared to Minolta.
3. Big and heavy body. Basically it is very good. Holding camera in the hands gives an impression of something solid and massive. The only problem I have is the placement of the adjust knobs. They are placed in a little bit different positions compared to my old Minolta. I needed some time to find them to change the aperture or shutter time.
4. Locks of the battery slot and memory card slot. It is not good idea to make kind of fancy thing. It is to small for me, and it don’t provide fast access to those slots.
5. Automatic CCD cleaning - very good thing, but if you have a dirty fat spot you will have to touch the CCD. I found CCD in my Samsung quite dirty in some places. It affected my photos - there was a quite big blurry black spot. After about 20 attempts to clean it with auto cleaning the dust has gone, but a dirty place remained (so I will need to clean it with some special tools).
6. Very good quality of the photos - so far I have been taking only JPGs, but I am going to take both JPGs and Raw files.
Here you have some examples and one high resolution picture:
Very old advertisement (probably from nineteen eighties) of Polish communist era “Dollar Shops” - Pewex.
Here is the High Res version of that photo - warning - very heavy (4,5 MB)
One of two Orthodox churches in Lodz. Orthodox Church of St Alexey Newsky. Church was built in 19th century while Lodz and eastern Poland was a part of Russia. Novadays the Orthodox community in Lodz is very small, so only one church is open for public. High Res (very heavy!)
The last photo, kind of abstraction I created in Photoshop using photos of Lodz two towers is available on my Photoblog:
http://www.kozerawski.com/2007/08/31/welcome-to-black-mesa-complex-east/
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the heavier camera the less blurred photo. Some people add special weights for their cameras and guns to stabilize it.
Photos are so good if you consider today’s weather and amount (rather small) of sunlight. And HiRes ones… love it