New Use of an Old Camera
Here are some recent photos I took in Pine Stree Woods. The days were not great, overcast and gray. Still there is a bit of fall color and it was fun to play with some black and white.
Sample color images. (Fuji Provia film simulation)
Some in-camera black and white images (digital yellow filter)
These were taken by an old camera that I have resurrected the Fujifilm X10.
Back when I was deep into film cameras (about 2012) I was lusting over the Fuji x10's stylish looks. My wife bought it for me as a birthday gift and it nearly derailed me from film for a short while.
It fits in the history of digital cameras at near the end of compact cameras as smartphones made huge inroads into the casual photography market.
The basic specs are as follows...
12 Mpixel 2/3" sensor
7-28mm f2.0-f2.8 zoom lens with macro mode and OIS
3x Zoom by lens twist
Auto and manual focus
Optical viewfinder (no EVF)
FHD 30fps
Fuji film simulations
Built-in flash
Exposure compensation dial
It has the great styling that Fujifilm is famous for. It is very small and can fit in a large pocket. It does not fit my large hands very well.
I took it out for a couple of walks and tried it out. I used exposure bracketing on most shots and shot either 2/3 or one stop brackets on either side of the metered exposure. I then combined the bracketed images in Affinity Photo.
Most of the results (above) were pretty good. We have to remember some of the first DSLRs were six Mpixels and typically I scale my 100 Mpixel images to about 8 Mpixel for web consumption. I find the images very useable for web consumption and it may serve in my dash-mounted camera for quick landscapes while traveling.
