Took the X1 to a youth hockey game

[purduealum91]

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Boys and girls, I wasn't trying to prove the X1 is superior or inferior with my pics. Like I said, it was my first outing with the camera. I learned some things while using the camera at that hockey game. Thank you all for participating in this thread.

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[markgay]

Darned good results for a camera not designed for this purpose. Why? (just rhetorical, for those who haven't handle the X1)

 

It is a compact, so not fast in autofocus or lag.

 

However the lens is on a different level to other point-and-shoots (for example the Canon G11).

 

So if you can get the shot - which is a matter of skill and timing with a point-and-shoot just as it is, for other reasons, with a DSLR) the quality is, as the images above show, excellent.

 

Personally, I love the X1 in black and white because it's suited to the slower image - one individual, slower moving, not crowds, not action. But this photographer pulls it off.

 

Mark

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[SJP]

Boys and girls, I wasn't trying to prove the X1 is superior or inferior with my pics. Like I said, it was my first outing with the camera. I learned some things while using the camera at that hockey game. Thank you all for participating in this thread.

I just got round at last to look at the pictures themselves and I am pretty impressed, certainly considering these are the first 200 or so. Maybe I would have spent more time to get the white balance consistent (not neccesarily neutral but at least the same for all pictures) but some of the pictures are pretty convincing (for me), no. 85 is really nice in a desolate sort of way. Moreover I find the optical quality to be convincing. I believe the files have sufficient body to deliver impressive results. I'm getting an X1 urge (GAS) based on this.