{"id":5797,"date":"2012-06-10T23:42:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T15:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/?p=5797"},"modified":"2012-06-28T00:58:14","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T16:58:14","slug":"x1-the-test-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/?p=5797","title":{"rendered":"X1 : The Test Run"},"content":{"rendered":"

A week since the X1 got discharged from the ‘hospital’, today is the first time I got to really give it a test run. Like any other weekend of mine (these days) … getting to spend time with my camera alone is usually not possible … and so I took some test shots with the Leica X1 when out with my family today. Apart from these digital shots … I also (finally) managed to finish a roll of film in my La Sardina. Time to make a dash to the lab tomorrow!<\/p>\n

I’ll save the colored versions for later (down in this entry) but one thing for sure … I love the high contrast black & white film simulation mode in the X1 lots! What initially was just a test (switching to that mode) ended up with most of the test shots being in black & white. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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Street shooting is possible but perhaps a bit of patience is necessary as the autofocus is a little on the slow side. Still it is way faster than my fuzzy eyeballs trying to manual focus with my manual SLRs. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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As what you have probably read in reviews … the lens seems to be pretty awesome. Most of the photos turned out razor sharp (of course not these that are resized for web).<\/p>\n

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The blue sky with beautiful clouds was lovely but I’m not sure why I was still playing with the black & white mode. These photos are straight out of the camera (just resized).<\/p>\n

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Shooting closeup subjects is a bit more challenging (compared to the X100 I traded this cam with) as I couldn’t go as near with the X1.<\/p>\n

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As promised … below are few test shots in color …<\/p>\n

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The colors are pretty wicked huh?<\/em><\/p>\n

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Oh … and a snapshot I took yesterday evening when we were out for a wedding dinner.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Yummy apple crumble … nevermind the Red Ranger in the photo. \ud83d\ude1b<\/em><\/p>\n

That’s all for now. The X1 now has a quite permanent place in my camera bag!<\/p>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A week since the X1 got discharged from the ‘hospital’, today is the first time I got to really give it a test run. Like any other weekend of mine (these days) … getting to spend time with my camera alone is usually not possible … and so I took … <\/p>\n

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