New to D-LUX 3

[XD7]

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My D-LUX 3 arrived this evening. I have not had much chance to do much with it as yet, apart from charging the battery, reading some of the manual and checking the controls, menus, etc.

 

As a new owner, I just wondered if there are any useful tips or advice that D-LUX 3 veterans may care to pass on. Or do I have to learn the hard way?

 

Thanks.

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[ckthual]

Shoot Raw, try macro and manual focus, always shoot 16/9 (possible 2/3 or 4/3 crop afterwards, and very useful). Avoid ISO over 400 unless you really don't care about noise. Noisy Black and white at 400/800 can be interesting if you don't.

Enjoy ! :-)

[rsmithor]

Also read this complete thread: some fine points on D-Lux 3 setting, etc...

 

Kevin_B1

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Kevin Bucknell

 

Posted June 13th

Title : New D-Lux 3

[Guest malland]

Shoot Raw, try macro and manual focus, always shoot 16/9 (possible 2/3 or 4/3 crop afterwards, and very useful). Avoid ISO over 400 unless you really don't care about noise. Noisy Black and white at 400/800 can be interesting if you don't.

Enjoy ! :-)

Actually, that is not god advice: it's better to frame at the format that you want for a particcular pciture when you're shooting RAW because you are liley to get better compositon that way. Then, if you shot in 3:2 or 4:3 format and wangt to reframe to the full 16:9 frame, some RAW developers, SILKYPIX for example let you recover the ful 16:9 frame and you can then also reframe to any format you want.

 

—MItch

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10268776@N00/

[ckthual]

> Mitch : I'm using Lightroom, and it doesn't allow you to recover the whole 16/9 image while developing. And it's a pleasure to be able to decenter your image when you have thought it in 2/3 but lack some detail on the far right or left.

Maybe when LR allows you to do it, I may use the right framing format, but I'm not sure, I like to shoot 16/9, and in the case the picture has too much unoccupied space on the sides, I know in my head where I'll be cropping (anyway, the cropping will be to 2/3, I never have been able to shoot 4/3...).

Regards

[tommycrown]

Congratulations on your new DLux 3!

Since I have purchased mine a month ago, I have taken more than 1000 photos.

 

I would like to suggest you play with the setting like saturation, noise level, etc.

 

Most people suggest to lower them all the way, but you may find them differently.

 

Good luck!

 

Tommy

[Guest malland]

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> Mitch : I'm using Lightroom, and it doesn't allow you to recover the whole 16/9 image while developing. And it's a pleasure to be able to decenter your image when you have thought it in 2/3 but lack some detail on the far right or left.

Maybe when LR allows you to do it, I may use the right framing format, but I'm not sure, I like to shoot 16/9, and in the case the picture has too much unoccupied space on the sides, I know in my head where I'll be cropping (anyway, the cropping will be to 2/3, I never have been able to shoot 4/3...).

Regards

Yes, I tried and cannot find a way to do it in Lightroom, but SILKYPIX, which I like a lot is a RAW developer, does have this facility. It allowed me to rescue the following pitture, shot in 3:2 format, by shifting a framing a bit to the right — I was driving a car and took the picture very quickly while waiting at a red light:

 

 

I prefer to shoot at the format that I want to print because I find it leads to better framing and composition.

 

—MItch/Potomac, MD

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10268776@N00/

[ckthual]

> Mitch : Great picture I love it ! :-)

I've had the same experience with the "rescue frame shifting", I love the idea I can get a few extra inches on the side and save a picture.... Then I started wondering why I couldn't do the same with some of my old M6 pictures ! ;-)

Regards

[flavio]

Hi Mitch,

really nice picture. It seems to me that DLux 3 level cameras may actually be this age camera as was Leica M during the '50s-60s. If I remember correctly, French guys call it "a la bauvette" (sorry: my french is even worst than my English).

Can you confirm that you have to shot in Raw AND jpg and cannot choose to use only Raw format?

Thanks!

[Guest malland]

Yes, Flavio, when you shoot RAW there is always a JPEG file as well, because the latter is used for the "review" on the LCD.

 

In my view, the camera that Leica would have made if they were still an innovative company would be the Ricoh GR-D, which has a fixed (prime) 28mm f/2.4 lens, and a 21mm add-on lens, which is reall very good. If I needed a small-sensor camera now I would probably choose the Ricoh GX100, which looks very interesting.

 

—Mitch/Potomac, MD

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10268776@N00/

[flavio]

Mitch,

interesting remark (Leica company related).

Don't you think that Raw + jpeg may be a waste of space (at least add the Raw only as a possibility feature)?

 

Have you flied back from HK? Any pictures update?

[Guest malland]

Flavio:

 

It's a waste of space if you don't need the JPG file, but it does provide a view on the camera's LCD of the pictures that you've taken. While the JPGs take up space on the memory card in your camera you can of course delete them after you transfer the files to your computer.

 

I'm currently in the Washington DC area and expect to get back to Bangkok (not Hong Kong) in mid-July. All my new pcitures — there aren't that many — are on the flcikr site below my signature. Also, I've put my whole Bangkok Series into the following slideshow, which now includes 48 pictures taken with the M6:

 

 

—Mitch/Potomac, MD

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10268776@N00/

[flavio]

Mitch,

actually I agree (Raw-Jpg). The D Lux 3 overall quality sound good and its size seems to permit lighter trips even when you have to walk up the hill/Dolomiti, where I usually like to go.

 

Thanks!