Fun with the X-Vario

[DavidE]

Visited Japan last week for the CEATEC tradeshow. I had a chance to snap some photos there with the X Vario.

 

[barjohn]

How were the B&Ws made? JPG from camera or PP?

 

[DavidE]

John, I used Lightroom 5 and Silver Efex Pro 2 to process the b&w images. All from RAW.

Here are some more X Vario shots from the Japan trip.

 

[barjohn]

Thanks for the information. I have just started playing with the high contrast JPGs from the camera because I liked the look. It reminded me of using the Leica CL and B&W film many years ago. Your images had that look too. I have LR 5.2 and Silverefex Pro 2 so i can also try them. Another converter that produces stunningly sharp and contrasty images is the free program called RAWKER. Very rudimentary in operation but wow what a difference compared to LR.

Here I am including first a side by side with standard conversion DNG and RAWKER Tif file, then optimized DNG in LR versus RAWKER Tif file (these are 100% crops).

 

[barjohn]

Here is the in camera produced B&W JPG.

 

[barjohn]

Here is one of my town of San Clemente during the Sea Food Festival this past weekend processed in RAWKER.

 

[barjohn]

Here are a few more from the Sea Food Fest and one from a prior day.

 

[ceh]

Processed SE Pro2 and PS CS 5.1

XV,28mm

 

[Paratom]

I like the colors.

 

[ceh]

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XV,f/8.0,1/60sec.,ISO 400..

 

[satybhat]

here's one....

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[ceh]

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[DavidE]

Three more color shots from Japan

 

[DavidE]

And three more b&w shots from Japan

 

[ceh]

Another one..
beautiful colors and sharpness - 28mm..

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crop (no sharpening)

 

[Paratom]

Another one..
beautiful colors and sharpness - 28mm..

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crop (no sharpening)

and beautiful weather. I wish I could have been up there as well.

 

[ptomsu]

Keep the image samples from the XV coming! I am getting excited.

If possible some low light samples please - I really would love to add the XV as my everyday travel cam!

Peter

 

[ceh]

Pano handheld,70mm,11 images stitched with PTGui Pro,edited PS CS 5.1..

crop (no sharpening)

 

[DaveS]

I spent a few days travelling on the British Columbia coast, there was some moody looking fog and a ferry trip. The XV is a nice light travel camera. For the images I did sharpening and cropping to taste on the following shots.

I also found a bald eagle after the fact when editing in LR in the 3rd image and put in a 100% crop of it.

all the best,
Dave

 

[ricardsonwilliams]