NEX-5 (18mm, f/3.5, 1/30 sec, ISO250)
NEX-5 (18mm, f/3.5, 1/30 sec, ISO800)
“Even better than the real thing” – U2
Gondolas, Canals. Everything is there. The water is crystal clear and … smells! Chlorine! Everything is covered in artificial light! Everything looks like it is made of paper and plastic and I guess that’s what everything is made of here. Las Vegas is a strange place. I think prefer the real thing. Continue reading
NEX-5 (18mm, f/8, 1/1000 sec, ISO200)
Las Vegas is a strange place. And if you are in a strange place the best thing to do is to act strange to assimilate. Las Vegas is known for it’s casinos and hotels. So we decided to stay in a hotel and leave our RV in the car park. I guess we are no hard core campers. It’s sound very strange to pay for a hotel when you are already paying for your RV but in Las Vegas it makes sense. They have so many hotel rooms that you can get them for very little money. At the same time they have very expensive RV parks. At the end it’s an easy decision if you have to pay $10 more for 4 star hotel on the strip. Continue reading
NEX-5 (24mm, f/4, 1/160 sec, ISO200)
Jump back in time another year. September 2010. USA. California on the way to the Yosemite NP. Image shot with my second favorite small travel camera I just bought about a week before the trip. Despite I travelled with 2 DSLRs and a backpack full of lenses I took more than 60% of all shots with the Sony NEX 5. How come? It’s simple: In the cities like Las Vegas and San Francisco I took only the NEX to travel light. On our long beach walks I used only the NEX. With the camera stored away in a small bag I felt like a local enjoying the sunsets on the beach. Continue reading
FinePix X100 (23mm, f/2.8, 1/60 sec, ISO2000)
Here are two images I took just before we left home for a 3 weeks Vacation in British Columbia. It shows the cat of our neighbor. He is a very friendly and lovely animal the only problem is that for some reason he thinks that we are his family. Continue reading
FinePix X100 (23mm, f/2.8, 1/60 sec, ISO800)
Here is another one I took that day that illustrates a real big advantage of the X100. Noise. Or better the lack of any noise. Continue reading