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Thanks all.
Got some shots early yesterday with the new camera and I’m really impressed. Need slightly better conditions to give the superzoom a proper chance to show what it can do. Or not.
I’m sure the TZ90 would have done a fine job on most of the shots where the extra zoom wasn’t needed but the moon was a bit too much for it.
I love them both, the TZ90 literally comes everywhere with me (apart from the gym) and it’s tiny size makes it ideal for that purpose. The Z82 will be coming with me a lot when I don’t need to do other things (like shopping) where rucksack space is needed more than a second camera.
Ed, I know what you mean about settings. Tons of them and some cancel out others so it’s certainly a learning curve. Thanks for the authors name, I’ll see how I go and then maybe check him out.
Tell me about it, this is the best I could do hand held at night.
DMC-TZ70 ƒ/3.9 1/2 sec 7.8 mm ISO1600I’ve been looking at the panoramas we’ve taken this year with the TZ70 and most are really good. Lens flare is the only issue but not much I can do about that with a compact. The best photos though are all about composition. One of my favoutites is this one the Mrs took.
You don’t need to ask where it was taken and it sums the place up. Hard to fail, took itself, except it didn’t if you look at the ones around it where she was playing with the composition.
It wasn’t that long after sunset. I have a photo from 200 metres away taken 2 hours later that looks like it was 2 hours earlier, purely down to a different foreground.
The camera really struggles with high contrast at night, which was a bummer for the Amsterdam Light Festival. Being on a canal boat didn’t help, nor did the freezing wind. So we went back to our favourites and took them from the canal side. Even then this one needed 1/2 second as the “cracks” were a lot more subtle than your eye thinks they are.
I had purchased a table tripod by then but there was nowhere to put it!
If yer cameras supports HDR give it a go. In HDR Mode the camera takes 3 pictures and then combines them. The idea is in HDR mode that the camera sees like we do. The camera shoud save all 3 shots so if you do not like the HDR you get a choice of 2 conventional shots. In this picture you can actually see the stars. bu t no doubt its not seeable on the forum. I use HDR mode on heck of a lot. Also most of us look ugly on photo except for the few. With HDR on there is a good chance that we will lokk normal and not so ugly.
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