| Author | Message | ||
     Court |
                     As best I can tell . . . this looks like "protest theatre". I'm going to slip down about midnight one night this week and "embed" myself for a couple days to see what the commotion is about. By the way . . . my apologies . . it's about impossible to shoot this type of stuff with a G12 . . that's what I had with me. | ||
| Reepicheep |
Interesting reporting Court! Where did the G12 fall short? Not enough zoom? | ||
| Court |
The G12 is pretty much useless is diminished light and shooting anything that is in motion. I've nabbed a couple decent, from a tripod, lower light shots and I attribute part of it to owner induced problems until I finish reading the remaining 347 pages. It's a heck of a camera in terms of quality. | ||
| Reepicheep |
Interesting. The Lumix LX3 solves the low light problem (F2.0 plus optical image stabilization), but then creates a "no zoom" problem... effective zoom 60mm max or so. I got a Lumix ZS3 (insulted a man on ebay, and he wasn't insulted... $135 for camera and 3 batteries) and it solves the zoom problem (25mm to 300mm effective zoom!), but brings back the low light problem (F3 to F4.5). So I have both of them, and grab the right one based on how much light I expect.  A buddy just scored a Lumix LX5 for $280 or so... that may be the magic combination of both cameras. I'm skeptical though, I bet it comes at the price of worse optics. Thanks for the data point! | ||
| Saxon59 |
I can't wait to see the " South Park" episode this will surely inspire!!  |
