This shot was taken on one of those rainy days – and I was the only one walking down 7th Avenue-seriously, there was no soul in sight, until I spotted the two Japanese tourists. The tension in their body language, their out of place appearance in front of the soda/candy/cigar landmark called for a classic composition. The whole scene felt unreal, the clear air, vibrant colors and the lack of traffic transformed this moment into a different time period.
Shot with the GR at 1/400 f6.3 at ISO 3200. (You can order the Rico GR here at BH and Adorama)
Processing: +25% saturation, that took care of the reds.
Now this shot also reveals a lot about the quality of the sensor/lens combination – for the pixel peeper in us find out after the break
check out the 100% crops below
I am impressed, what do you guys think?
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Overall I’m extremely happy with how the camera handles as well as image quality. Light metering and dynamic range are much better than on my Canon EOS 5D Mark II which is amazing, the compact size taken into account!
There are a few glitches I hope will be fixed in a firmware upgrade, like auto ISO not going below 400 and the flash not firing unless you manually set continuous shooting to off (if the camera can register that it is set to Continuous shooting it should also be able to set this to off when the flash is popped up and on again when the flash is not in use anymore).
thanks John. Could be, the light war nice and the saturation boost probably helped. I think if you shoot raw there are very few issues with the GR, image quality rocks.
Great shot and image quality. I could be wrong but it would seem that saturating the colors seems to give greater perceived depth to the image than I’m used to see on the GR. Did you set the built in noise reduction to off?
Great frame! And damn impressive optics. Good looking noise at that ISO as well.