Cameras

Canonet QL17 G-III. Arista Print Film, ISO 400

Yet more from the antiquated Canon PowerShot G5. All the above taken in 2004. I’m noticing more and more that plenty of dynamic range can be pulled from the RAW files from this camera. Enough so that I’m tempted to buy a G5 on Ebay and start shooting with one again to compare it to my DSLRs and Micro Four Thirds gear. I turned off all the sharpening in the Lightroom develop module, and also in the export dialog because the more I look at it, the more ugly I think digital sharpening is.

From 2003, going back through the archives to see what I shot. I remember carrying the G5 with me everywhere, just as I do with my camera now. I didn’t know a thing about manual exposure, but I began to learn on that camera, since it was the first digital camera I owned that had manual controls. I owned a G3 ever so briefly, but I returned it and got the G5 which was sparkly new at the time. It was slow and clunky, but it had an f2 lens…even though I didn’t know what that meant at the time.