Women in shop windows
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Someone very kindly lent me a Sony DSC-F828 digital camera last week to play around with (DPReview.com’s review of the DSC-F828). Unfortunately, it’s been raining here so I didn’t get the chance to use it in sunlight, where I have a feeling it would produce some pretty nice pictures. I did take it on a stroll through Ginza, however, where a theme of the walk seemed to be women in shop windows.
Instead of using a regular RGB Bayer filter over the sensor, the F828 uses a four-colour filter which is supposed to give better colour rendition. The colour out of it does seem to be pretty good (neither of these pictures reveals it but that’s my fault) however it’s a very noisy camera. Cramming 8 megapixels onto a fairly small sensor means it’s just too easy for electrons to jump photosites (I think this is what happens when they’re crammed together too tightly), and even images shot at the lowest ISO have a lot of ‘grain’ to them. At web sizes you don’t notice it at all, but it’s quite noticeable when you see the photographs up close.
By the way, if anyone has a Nikon D2H that needs playing around with, feel free to get in touch.
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Posted to Photographs • 2004.05.10 (Mon) • 23:46
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Posted by Chris Hester 2004.05.13, 21:09
Geometry, beauty, juxtaposition, minimalism, effortless style and more. All in one photo. (The top one.) How do you do it?
Posted by Ashley 2004.05.16, 00:15
You are so imaginative. Wonderful idea and wonderfully composed and executed pictures.
Ashley
Posted by jh 2004.05.17, 15:58
As much as I hate to say it, there’s nothing to these shots beyond right place, right time luck. I was just walking down the street, camera in hand, and there they were.
Hmmm … the thought occurs to me that this is true of most of my pictures! Oh well, nice to have luck smiling on me in one respect at least. ;-)
Posted by Mark Clark 2004.10.27, 06:46
I’ve really enjoyed looking at your photographs. I recently designed the Jaeger store in Aoyama near the Prada building, so had an chance to visit. It is a very photogenic building, and I really liked your tightly cropped photo of the stair. Mark Clark, London.
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