Yesterday, Bobbi noticed Holden all snuggled up on the window seat in a patch of winter sunlight and called out "You might want to grab a camera!"
I’m the photography equivalent of that shooter who brings a big case full of half a dozen guns to the range and cheerfully blasts a box of ammo through each just for the joy of messing with them, rather than grinding through a dedicated practice regimen with that one gun they’re trying to master…
…and I’m okay with that.
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| Nikon D3 |
He looked cute... to the human eye. To a camera, he was a very dark object that was strongly backlit. There was a light-colored cushion off to the right that was bouncing a little bit of fill onto him, but it's not like you can get natural-looking pictures of a dozing cat by dragging in a reflector or using fill flash. Well, you might get one, but it would be terribly rude to the cat.
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| Fuji X-T2 |
Anyway, he did look cute, but it was a tricky shot. I wound up attempting it with a couple cameras, as much to see how the different sensors and metering systems would deal with the tricky conditions as anything else. I grabbed the old D3 and tried the Fuji X-T2 (itself not state of the art, but one of the newest cameras I own.)
I tried with an Oly also and quickly realized that, as much as I love playing with the Olympus E-3 and as dreamy as the Zuiko 14-35mm f/2 zoom lens that lives on it is, I had no idea how to quickly switch the metering on it from evaluative ("ESP" in Olympus-speak, what Nikon calls "Matrix" and Canon calls "Multi") to center-weighted.
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| Fuji X-E1 & XF 23mm f/2 |
The experience was one of those reminders that I like cameras too much to ever be a really good photographer.
I’m the photography equivalent of that shooter who brings a big case full of half a dozen guns to the range and cheerfully blasts a box of ammo through each just for the joy of messing with them, rather than grinding through a dedicated practice regimen with that one gun they’re trying to master…
…and I’m okay with that.
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