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*** June 2025 Image and Video Thread ***

Pete_W

Pete_W

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Welcome to the month of June! It is officially the first day of winter here in Australia, although it was a beautiful sunny day here in Sydney. It got up to 21 degrees Celsius at 2:00pm.

Here are a few photos from a neighbourhood walk I did this afternoon with the S9. The first photo is the Hacking River. On the other side of the river is the Royal National Park. The little blemish in the sky at top right is a plane.

P1001450_DxO.jpg
  • Panasonic - DC-S9
  • 24mm F3.5 DG DN | Contemporary 021
  • 24.0 mm
  • ƒ/8
  • 1/200 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 100



The second photo was taken about 100 metres further up the road. At the back of a house was an old garage that looked very much out of place compared to all the large homes around it. But I loved the nostalgic look so I had to take a shot. The little blemish in the sky is the moon.

P1001451_DxO.jpg
  • Panasonic - DC-S9
  • 24mm F3.5 DG DN | Contemporary 021
  • 24.0 mm
  • ƒ/8
  • 1/160 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 100
 
Photographing on a cloudy day in Austria

P1470187.jpg
  • Panasonic - DC-S5
  • 24mm F3.5 DG DN | Contemporary 021
  • 24.0 mm
  • ƒ/8
  • 1/250 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 100



P1470185.jpg
  • Panasonic - DC-S5
  • 24mm F3.5 DG DN | Contemporary 021
  • 24.0 mm
  • ƒ/8
  • 1/160 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 100



P1470179.jpg
  • Panasonic - DC-S5
  • 24mm F3.5 DG DN | Contemporary 021
  • 24.0 mm
  • ƒ/8
  • 1/320 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 100
 
This is from Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park in Colorado a few nights ago.

Composite of two exposures from the S1RII & Sigma 14-24 Art. Sky is four minutes (tracked) at ISO 400, with moderate increases of brightness, exposure & saturation in post.

FG is also four minutes but at ISO 800, with more aggressive increases in exposure.

Both exposures at F2.8.

Click photo to see other resolutions in Smugmug.

BCG_1_Full_Size-X2.jpg
 
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Katoomba station on the Blue Mountains west of Sydney on a cold day. It looks warm but it wasn't! Actual temp was 4.5° but wind chill temp was -3.9°C.

Panasonic S5M2 + LUMIX S 24-105/F4
57mm, ƒ/9, 1/800s, ISO500

Katoomba station on Flickr
 
Today I went with my family to Amsterdam to visit the Rijksmuseum and a bit in the city..... of course I had to Testdrive the S 24-60/2.8 :cool:
PANA3595.jpg
  • Panasonic - DC-S5M2
  • LUMIX S 24-60/F2.8
  • 58.0 mm
  • ƒ/2.8
  • 1/30 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 1600

PANA3613.jpg
  • Panasonic - DC-S5M2
  • LUMIX S 24-60/F2.8
  • 60.0 mm
  • ƒ/2.8
  • 1/30 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 1600

PANA3616.jpg
  • Panasonic - DC-S5M2
  • LUMIX S 24-60/F2.8
  • 24.0 mm
  • ƒ/2.8
  • 1/125 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 1600
 
PANA3640.jpg
  • Panasonic - DC-S5M2
  • LUMIX S 24-60/F2.8
  • 24.0 mm
  • ƒ/2.8
  • 1/2000 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 1600

PANA3650.jpg
  • Panasonic - DC-S5M2
  • LUMIX S 24-60/F2.8
  • 40.0 mm
  • ƒ/2.8
  • 1/10 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 1600

PANA3652.jpg
  • Panasonic - DC-S5M2
  • LUMIX S 24-60/F2.8
  • 24.0 mm
  • ƒ/2.8
  • 1/13 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 1600
 
PANA3708.jpg
  • Panasonic - DC-S5M2
  • LUMIX S 24-60/F2.8
  • 24.0 mm
  • ƒ/6.3
  • 1/320 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 100

PANA3713.jpg
  • Panasonic - DC-S5M2
  • LUMIX S 24-60/F2.8
  • 26.0 mm
  • ƒ/2.8
  • 1/640 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 100

PANA3724.jpg
  • Panasonic - DC-S5M2
  • LUMIX S 24-60/F2.8
  • 37.0 mm
  • ƒ/5.6
  • 1/400 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 100
 
Travis Butler said:
Of course. :)

Looks like a lovely museum... looking forward to a report on the lens.
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It’s the most famous museum in the Netherlands with paintings of all the Dutch painters like Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Vermeer etc. As far as I know they published very high quality pictures of all of them online for free, so not necessary to photograph them. I did take a few though. It’s also very large, we were there for 3 hrs and that was about the max you can keep a 10 yo girl engaged in paintings and other old stuff.

So the paintings I enjoyed mostly without the camera, but there is tons of other stuff too :cool: .

I had no problems with the max 60mm, and for the most part there was enough room that I didn’t care for sub 24mm even once.

The lens is very sharp at 2.8 and crazy sharp stopped down. The harsh light conditions amplify that a bit. But at 100% even every leave of an in focus tree is sharp and defined, and the texture of bricks etc. Almost like crazy. For 5 pictures out of 180 I moved the purple fringing slider a bit with insane contrasty scenes. But easily removed and no problem for me at all. You won’t get it around leaves with strong white backgrounds, or around buildings. But only can be provoked on very very high contrast stuff.

The balance is very good, so is the zoom action. I had the camera in my hand all day, except when we were in bus/metro/tram. I had a small non-camera bag with me, messenger style, where I placed some padding into myself. I had that with me because there was some rain forecast.

For me this lens is definitely a keeper. I will let the 24-105 go I guess.
 
RuleOfThirds said:
It’s the most famous museum in the Netherlands with paintings of all the Dutch painters like Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Vermeer etc. As far as I know they published very high quality pictures of all of them online for free, so not necessary to photograph them. I did take a few though. It’s also very large, we were there for 3 hrs and that was about the max you can keep a 10 yo girl engaged in paintings and other old stuff.

So the paintings I enjoyed mostly without the camera, but there is tons of other stuff too :cool: .

I had no problems with the max 60mm, and for the most part there was enough room that I didn’t care for sub 24mm even once.

The lens is very sharp at 2.8 and crazy sharp stopped down. The harsh light conditions amplify that a bit. But at 100% even every leave of an in focus tree is sharp and defined, and the texture of bricks etc. Almost like crazy. For 5 pictures out of 180 I moved the purple fringing slider a bit with insane contrasty scenes. But easily removed and no problem for me at all. You won’t get it around leaves with strong white backgrounds, or around buildings. But only can be provoked on very very high contrast stuff.

The balance is very good, so is the zoom action. I had the camera in my hand all day, except when we were in bus/metro/tram. I had a small non-camera bag with me, messenger style, where I placed some padding into myself. I had that with me because there was some rain forecast.

For me this lens is definitely a keeper. I will let the 24-105 go I guess.
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You marry the lens... and date the body? :D:D
 
RuleOfThirds said:
It’s the most famous museum in the Netherlands with paintings of all the Dutch painters like Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Vermeer etc. As far as I know they published very high quality pictures of all of them online for free, so not necessary to photograph them. I did take a few though. It’s also very large, we were there for 3 hrs and that was about the max you can keep a 10 yo girl engaged in paintings and other old stuff.
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Hah! Yeah, it was like that in the DC trip last year; I wanted to spend time with friends and thought the National Air and Space Museum would be a great way to do it, since we were all aerospace fans; but it turned out we weren't all interested in the same bits, so it was a lot of me being interested in something while they wanted to speed ahead, and vice-versa. ;_;
RuleOfThirds said:
I had no problems with the max 60mm, and for the most part there was enough room that I didn’t care for sub 24mm even once.
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Oh dear. And now I am tempted, or would be if I could afford to spend the money.

RuleOfThirds said:
The lens is very sharp at 2.8 and crazy sharp stopped down. The harsh light conditions amplify that a bit. But at 100% even every leave of an in focus tree is sharp and defined, and the texture of bricks etc. Almost like crazy. For 5 pictures out of 180 I moved the purple fringing slider a bit with insane contrasty scenes. But easily removed and no problem for me at all. You won’t get it around leaves with strong white backgrounds, or around buildings. But only can be provoked on very very high contrast stuff.
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Museums are some of the most challenging places I've shot, and last week was a very pointed reminder. ^^;; Harsh lighting; odd color casts; dim lighting; heavy spot lighting in the frame; lots of reflective glass; having to wait for other viewers to move out of the frame... A challenge for lens and sensor (well, except the last one). Sounds like this one passes.

RuleOfThirds said:
The balance is very good, so is the zoom action. I had the camera in my hand all day, except when we were in bus/metro/tram. I had a small non-camera bag with me, messenger style, where I placed some padding into myself. I had that with me because there was some rain forecast.

For me this lens is definitely a keeper. I will let the 24-105 go I guess.
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Balance, size and weight are huge concerns for me these days; sounds like it passes again. :)
 
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