Okay I wanted to know if I can use my G11 for street shooting, i.e. shooting rather quickly or should I say quicker than the method's I've been using.
I've noticed that I can set the zoom on telephoto and instead of using the screen, I can look through the viewfinder and the outcoming image will be giving me more coverage which will compensate for the screen not being quite centered.
Then I noticed that in the evening early grey of the evening and probably the generall grey daylight we often have around here and the camera at full telephoto, that leaves the lens stopped down to 4.5 wide open and I immediately needed some shutter speed, the first shots I had tried were at 1/6th of a second which didn't quite work even with the image stabilizer.
So I pumped it up to ISO 800 and walked the two blocks to the grocery store.
In the following photographs, they are all just quick shots at ISO 800, I spend about a minute an a half on each one in Lightroom 3 to make them prettier, it was horrible grey flat light so I boosted saturation clarity, luminance etc.
At first I wasn't going to even bother with noise reduction because on my 24 inch screen I didn't see it until I went into 100% and of course it was there so I quickly set the luminance noise slider up to 35 on all of them.
I boosted the sharpness from the default of 25 up to 50 and that was it.
I'm not saying this is a ID camera, no way but I think at ISO 800, especially when you don't have big flat shadows where grain will really pop out, you can still have fun with your camera.
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