As a matter of fact, these images have no post-processing whatsoever. I did this at the spot, on the camera, and not afterwards in post processing. I took two pictures of every scene, with the white balance set to auto and daylight. To have an idea what the difference is between auto white balance and a fixed daylight setting, I shot different scenes during one single morning. I always use daylight ("daglicht" in the images below) setting, approximately 5200K, which is imitating the daylight film from the analogue days. Changes in ambient colors will be much clearer visible on screen because there is no system trying to take out any excesses in color casts. When using a fixed white balance setting, you get a consistent color balance throughout a series of photos. Although I cannot check what effect the auto white balance would have given, the colors have turned out perfect with daylight setting. In terms of colour and white balance it does rather well, but with images seemingly oversaturated in terms of greens and blues if I was going to be picky.Back in 2015 I witnessed an amazing sunset with intense colors. So with all this kit how does the camera do at the things it has been designed for - creating images? I’ve already mentioned a slight metering foible where it seems to have a propensity to underexpose and I’ve already mentioned the excellent and speedy focusing set up. More of this camera’s more advanced features include a multiple exposure control for two to nine exposures and a comprehensive set of custom modes for tailoring the camera to how you want, prefer or need. The anti-shake system can be switched on and off via a clear, large, switch and there’s the memory card port open button too.Īn auto exposure lock sits helpfully on the camera’s right shoulder while an “Fn” function button allows you quick access to settings such as ISO, white balance, flash, and drive modes. On the rather cluttered back plate, you find a host of other controls both in terms of viewing controls (for the LCD) and shooting options such as the exposure compensation control, focus point selection ring (auto, select or central points) that surrounds the four-way jog and “OK” buttons. Metering performance is pretty good although I found that it would struggle on some scenes where the predominant part of the lower part of the scene was dark, here it seemed to overexpose the lighter areas, even if using the 16-zone evaluative meter, seemingly as though it was over-biased towards the centre part of the scene. Metering can be prioritised to the AF point in-use as well. In terms of focus performance, the AF utilises 11-AF zones and the AF is both zippy and accurate. ![]() You also get Dynamic RAW shooting for up to nine frames at 3-fps and Direct RAW Editing that allows you edit RAWs in camera without a computer where you can adjust image tones, pixel count, picture quality, the auto white balance, ISO, sharpness, contrast, and saturation then save them as a JPEG. When I get the GX20, (hopefully in a more timely manner than this model) I’ll be able to find out.īut that’s not the only funky feature, a direct RAW button means if you’re not already using the RAW or RAW+JPEG simultaneous shooting options at the press of a button (it’s on the camera’s front-left lens mounting) you can activate the RAW mode without ever having to slow down by dipping into menus. It would be unfair to be overly harsh on the camera at this point given the number of photojournalists that have (probably) used it but it does indicate the sensor cleaning system needs a bit of a revamp. However, the review sample I had has both the dirtiest sensor I’ve ever encountered, so it has clearly been round the block a few times, and the system simply fails to tackle any of that dirt. ![]() The 10.2-megapixel sensor boasts a sensor cleaning system that unfortunately clearly does not work properly.Įach time the camera’s turned on the thing vibrates rapidly as the sensor cleaning cycle struts its stuff, so you know quite clearly it is working as an option in the easy to follow – and use – menu system, displayed on the camera’s 2.5-inch colour screen. Build is tough with key camera seals proofed against ingress of dirt and moisture including the SDHC external storage port on the camera’s right side.
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