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My wife and I recently joined a conducted tour of 4800km from
Perth to Broome in Western Australia, the highlight being visits to locations
in the Pilbara region. Fortunately
someone else was driving. It’s a long way from everywhere to everywhere else in
Western Australia.
I took my Sony RX10.4 with no backup camera. I rate the
RX10.4 as the most versatile and capable all purpose model on the market today. It can handle just about
any photographic challenge without the need to change lenses, ever.
Image quality is much better than some critics of the bridge
camera genre might have you believe.
I used it for landscapes, close-ups, birds in flight,
aerials and anything else which came along.
The camera functioned perfectly throughout with no problems.
I carried it in a LowePro Toploader Zoom 45 AW with the
internal Velcro patches removed, making it easier to get the camera out of the
bag with the lens hood attached.
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| Karijini pano, stitched in Photoshop. In-camera panos from the RX10.4 have too many stitching errors to be usable. |
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| Sturt Desert Pea The RX10 has an unusual characteristic when working close. You can get extremely close at the wide end of the lens but that is not often feasible. The other way is to set the lens to the longest focal length and get back a meter or so from the subject. The intermediate focal lengths don't let you get so close. |
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| Stromatolites |
How were the wildflowers? My wife and I are doing a Southwest Birds & Botany Tour out of Perth in October and I'll be using my RX10.4 that I bought last year after reading your blog posts. Replaced my FX1000 that I'd purchased on your earlier recommendation.
ReplyDeleteHI, Hope you have a good trip. The wildflowers are unpredictable but experienced tour guides know where they are most likely.
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Andrew
ReplyDeleteI am looking to quit my panny G85 and three lenses for either an ILC with one lens or a compact or small bridge (don't want to carry too much weight with spine issues). Interested in street, macro and possibly birds in flight. Don't want a DSLR with a long lens. Any thoughts?
HI, I still think the FZ1000.2 makes a very good all purpose option. But for more reach and speed the RX10.4 is unbeatable in the bridge camera class.
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