Well, what can I tell?
I love photography, I am getting older, my daughter is growing up fast, and I just never found enough time to one of my passions, photography, before.
While getting older, a man start thinking about the priorities in his life, and that is absolutely not working 16 hours a day, so I decided to make more time free for myself and my daughter, and to travel.
I had a DSLR before, with heavy lenses, Canon with L-glass (extraLarge, I like to call them), and i realised that I never took them with me
So, what??? I was reading that the best digicam was that one that you have all the time with you, and I started a thread on a DSLR-forum about .... changing my gear.
The response was big, all saying that the best solution is and always will be a DSLR. They just laughed with compacts like the LX5, even with m43 and 43 gear.
Well, after registering here, and on m43, I know better then that. I let them laugh and decide what lens they will take with them on vacation or for a shoot, and I laugh now when i see them carry 10 kilo or more.
So, I am planning to travel 3 months to Thailand, from town to town, and I wanted to change my gear (I never ever took the gear with me because toooooooo heavy), and I did some research myself, and found the m43 forum, what is also a great community.
I decided, after very good advice on m43, to sell all the stuff, and buy a Pana GF1 + 20mm/1.7.
So far, so good
A very good digicam, and portable, one of the biggest factors in my choice.
And then .... I found seriouscompacts.com
And I saw the same members (almost) as on m43 and JAVIER. I was reading, and looking at the images, and looking and looking and looking.
I wanted to give my old cam, a FZ38 (FZ35) to my daughter to try out if she would like to take pictures also. Well, she did.
And me, myself and I decided to buy a Pana LX5.
Ha ha, when the postman rang twice, my daughter opened the door, and I never got the chance anymore to even look at the LX5, it was hers.
"Dad, you have a GF1, so the LX5 is mine."
So, I just looked at her, and I realised that I also wanted the LX5, beside the GF1, I was attracted by the pics made with it and showed here, and the step zoom lens, the fast lens, and much more, thanks to JAVIER and others here
At the same time i was thinking I was already shooting all my life OOC, and I wanted to have at least a program to change some settings, nope, I am not a pixel peeper, so Adobe LR3 was the perfect solution. And let the Leica D-Lux5 come with .... right, LR3
So, my choice was made quick, and I got the D-Lux5, same same as my daughter, but another body. I bought it with the grip.
Now, I am struggling with myself, because like many others I am "in love" with the Fuji X100, and I also want the 45mm for the GF1 in the future.
But that are just problems for when I come back from Thailand
So, the reason why I initially arrived on this forum, was because I wanted to look at pictures made with serious compacts, and Javier's (and others) shots made me buy an LX5, that my daughter took over from minute one, and so I got my "Pan-a-Leic-a".
I will travel to Thailand with the GF1 + 20 mm and the Pan-a-Leic-a, and make shots there and of course put them here when I come back.
And then I will see what else I am gonna buy, a very serious compact (X100) or the 45mm for the GF1.
So, BBW, now you will never ask me again to make an introduction, hah ha
And I also wanna take the opportunity to tell how great this forum is, and that here are a lot of talented people, much more talented people then all those "arrogant" people that laughed at me on a DSLR forum when I told to change gear.
They never ever can make with their heavy (and mostly expensive) gear as nice pics as BBW-Streetshooter-Javier and much other people here and on the m43 forum. Euh, do not misunderstand me, I realise that for action and sportphotography the poor guys have no other choice then to carry those vw-busses-size-lenses
They laughed, and now I laugh, because I dont have to carry all those kilo's around Thailand, nope, just a small supercompact and a GF1 (even that is not really necessary to take with me).
So, thanks to all for the great shots, the nice welcome, and let's shoot and have fun
And a special thanks from my daughter to Javier, me just registering here got her a wonderful compact and costed me much more then I planned. Thank you, Javier
I love photography, I am getting older, my daughter is growing up fast, and I just never found enough time to one of my passions, photography, before.
While getting older, a man start thinking about the priorities in his life, and that is absolutely not working 16 hours a day, so I decided to make more time free for myself and my daughter, and to travel.
I had a DSLR before, with heavy lenses, Canon with L-glass (extraLarge, I like to call them), and i realised that I never took them with me
So, what??? I was reading that the best digicam was that one that you have all the time with you, and I started a thread on a DSLR-forum about .... changing my gear.
The response was big, all saying that the best solution is and always will be a DSLR. They just laughed with compacts like the LX5, even with m43 and 43 gear.
Well, after registering here, and on m43, I know better then that. I let them laugh and decide what lens they will take with them on vacation or for a shoot, and I laugh now when i see them carry 10 kilo or more.
So, I am planning to travel 3 months to Thailand, from town to town, and I wanted to change my gear (I never ever took the gear with me because toooooooo heavy), and I did some research myself, and found the m43 forum, what is also a great community.
I decided, after very good advice on m43, to sell all the stuff, and buy a Pana GF1 + 20mm/1.7.
So far, so good
A very good digicam, and portable, one of the biggest factors in my choice.
And then .... I found seriouscompacts.com
And I saw the same members (almost) as on m43 and JAVIER. I was reading, and looking at the images, and looking and looking and looking.
I wanted to give my old cam, a FZ38 (FZ35) to my daughter to try out if she would like to take pictures also. Well, she did.
And me, myself and I decided to buy a Pana LX5.
Ha ha, when the postman rang twice, my daughter opened the door, and I never got the chance anymore to even look at the LX5, it was hers.
"Dad, you have a GF1, so the LX5 is mine."
So, I just looked at her, and I realised that I also wanted the LX5, beside the GF1, I was attracted by the pics made with it and showed here, and the step zoom lens, the fast lens, and much more, thanks to JAVIER and others here
At the same time i was thinking I was already shooting all my life OOC, and I wanted to have at least a program to change some settings, nope, I am not a pixel peeper, so Adobe LR3 was the perfect solution. And let the Leica D-Lux5 come with .... right, LR3
So, my choice was made quick, and I got the D-Lux5, same same as my daughter, but another body. I bought it with the grip.
Now, I am struggling with myself, because like many others I am "in love" with the Fuji X100, and I also want the 45mm for the GF1 in the future.
But that are just problems for when I come back from Thailand
So, the reason why I initially arrived on this forum, was because I wanted to look at pictures made with serious compacts, and Javier's (and others) shots made me buy an LX5, that my daughter took over from minute one, and so I got my "Pan-a-Leic-a".
I will travel to Thailand with the GF1 + 20 mm and the Pan-a-Leic-a, and make shots there and of course put them here when I come back.
And then I will see what else I am gonna buy, a very serious compact (X100) or the 45mm for the GF1.
So, BBW, now you will never ask me again to make an introduction, hah ha
And I also wanna take the opportunity to tell how great this forum is, and that here are a lot of talented people, much more talented people then all those "arrogant" people that laughed at me on a DSLR forum when I told to change gear.
They never ever can make with their heavy (and mostly expensive) gear as nice pics as BBW-Streetshooter-Javier and much other people here and on the m43 forum. Euh, do not misunderstand me, I realise that for action and sportphotography the poor guys have no other choice then to carry those vw-busses-size-lenses
They laughed, and now I laugh, because I dont have to carry all those kilo's around Thailand, nope, just a small supercompact and a GF1 (even that is not really necessary to take with me).
So, thanks to all for the great shots, the nice welcome, and let's shoot and have fun
And a special thanks from my daughter to Javier, me just registering here got her a wonderful compact and costed me much more then I planned. Thank you, Javier