On the way home from my woodland walk I spotted these powerlines and thought they looked interesting enough for me to take a picture.
Taken with a Sony A7IV and Rokinon AF 24-70 f2.8 FE
Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
I recently went into New York City (Manhattan) to meet a friend for drinks. My plan was to go in early, walk around and take some pictures. Unfortunately it was a rather hot and humid day and I really didn’t feel like walking around much so I decided to go somewhere indoors and air-conditioned. Maybe a Museum? I hadn’t been to the Museum of Modern Art (pictures to follow in a later post) for many years so I decided to go there. After 2-3 hours there I walked across to where I was meeting my friend. We had a nice chat and a few drinks and then I set off back to Grand Central.
On the way I spotted this view of the Chrysler building looking South down Lexington Avenue.
Taken with a Fuji X-E3 and Fuji XF 18mm f2 R
I like this camera. It’s fairly light and feels solid. I suppose what I like most are all of the buttons and dials. There’s a button or a dial for practically everything you want to do: exposure compensation; flash compensation; drive mode; exposure mode; exposure area; autofocus area; autofocus mode; flash settings; ISO. There’s no messing around with complicated menus here. I also liked the bright and uncomplicated viewfinder: just the shutter speed, aperture; a green light that illuminates when focus has been achieved. I also liked the top LCD where you can change and view settings without looking through the viewfinder. The various settings are controlled by two dials – one on the front and one on the rear.
The were only a couple of minor things that I didn’t like. I found the exposure compensation dial to be rather “fiddly” because you have to press in a small button before you can rotate it. The camera also has a proprietary flash shoe. This doesn’t bother me much because I don’t use flash a lot and in any case I have flashes I bought for my early Sony Alpha cameras, which used the same proprietary shoe. I would also have liked the grip to have been a little deeper.
The pictures were taken at Dale (no relation) cemetery in Ossining, NY.