Looks clear from here
Stirred on by a question from an old friend, I decided to finally take a look, in the techno-critical sense, at some of my first images from the new camera we purchased back at Christmas. A long time to wait, true; I will simply state that someone else has had the machine and continue merrily along.
I don’t have many pictures yet. To be exact, three. All taken from the kitchen window on a sunny day in February when there was enough snow to bewilder any light meter I ever used back in the busy seventies. In the days of Tri X, an invitation to a negative with maximum density and saturation. The kind of negative that can be used for a quick look at a solar eclipse, perhaps.
The subject was tantalizing and banal; the pool pump being absorbed by the snow monster, and I depended on the autofocus feature so vaunted by the manufacturer. My impressions are positive. There is no negative in the digital age. But seriously, the contrast is good, the colour shifts are reasonable, and I can read the fine print under the intake port on the pump from a distance equivalent to my effective range with a snowball.
Overall image size is enormous, as one might expect with a 10 megapixel sensor. I am including a fraction of the total area, without any special treatment. Let this stand as the starting point for a coming summer of experimentation (where I won’t have to shovel any snow, either).
