Out and about with the Casio EX-F1
Posted on 06. May, 2008 by Beate in Cameras, Casio EX-F1
Spring is finally coming to southern Norway, the ice has disappeared from hiking trails and it is time to venture out and catch the wildlife enjoying the new season.
Like woodpeckers stocking up on calories,
toads testing the ice free water,
and cows, ruminating their first fresh meal of the year.
A good opportunity to put the brand new Casio EX-F1 to use.
The above image series were all taken with the 60 fps burst function. It is really fun to use, just the long wait while saving the images from the buffer is agonizing. It feels like en eternity and can be somewhat disturbing to the wildlife photographer, who, after hiking for hours on challanging trails and then waiting for both, good light and the subject to appear, has to wait and wait without being able to take further images, while light or subject or both disappear. Currently I know of just one solution to this problem: two EX-F1s!
Another issue I revisited was chromatic abberation (CA) in EX-F1 images, as reported on in Part I. I was met with quite some scepticism when writing about my observation of the rather heavy CA that my specimen is showing. So I looked again at some images taken under conditions that makes them prone to CA.
CA is very strong here as well. To me that came as a surprise, I have never experienced CA to this extend before. It is not that a big deal to corrrect for it in post-processing, but I personally do not like to spend time with such boring routine tasks. Also, when making HDR images, heavy CA can be a pain.
Otherwise I am very excited with my new toy and will report more on some of it’s many coold features.
Stay tuned!
