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LUTETIA - Travels in France with the X100 | La Ciotat
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 7:30 AM 
I'm always longing for the ocean. It's been that way for as far as I can remember, as though I spent lifetimes before this one asleep on empty shores — listening to some lonely siren's song.
Beaches here are small rocky enclaves nestled against the busy road. We keep expecting space where there is none, silly north americans that we are.
La Ciotat is a city of closed shipyards. It's the birthplace of cinema.
And I see frames at every turn.
Next: Nice.
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Reader Comments (6)
Dude that shot with the lamps is divine! Such feeling in there! The shot with the flag on the boat is also another stand out photo. I'm loving seeing the pics from your trip. Keep it up dude!
Thanks man :)
Just one more city to go... It already seems so distant.
Hi Patrick, brilliant photographs as usual, you're an inspiration! Just one thing, how did you manage to produce such sharp pics with a camera that just won't focus....Maybe Kelby can explain. ;-)
I know right? Just lucky I guess :)
stunning shots!! can u share the settings that u shot for these landscape? thx
Hi and thanks. I’ve done a lot of experimenting with the X100?s settings but have settled on the following (I shoot JPEG exclusively with this camera):
- Provia film simulation (99% of the time)
- Auto ISO with 3200 ceiling and 1/60 min shutter
- Base ISO 200 (must be set separately)
- Auto Dynamic Range
- Aperture Priority mode (99% of the time) with a lot of Exp Comp fiddling.
For focusing I’m usually in AF-S unless I’m moving a lot, in which case I switch to MF and preset the correct focusing distance. I do make good use of the AFL button to prevent unnecessary re-focusing in AF-S.
Everything else is in flux depending on the subject. For these particular images I was at either f8 or f11 in AP mode. The camera usually gave me ISO 200 and a shutter speed between 1/180 and 1/2000. The only image below that is the night shot of my girlfriend in the harbour which is at 1/60 ISO 1000.
When using Auto Dynamic Range, the X100 will sometimes go above the base ISO even in full sunlight — it does this when it judges it needs to use higher Dyn Range values which are only available at higher ISO settings. I was a bit suspicious of this behaviour at first but have since found it usually works quite well. The butcher shop image (charcuterie) is an example of this: at f11 the X100 gave me 1/320 and ISO 400 when it obviously could’ve gone for ISO 200 at a higher shutter speed. It did this to maintain the best overall dynamic range.
in essence, my control freak/manually obsessed mind has learned to trust the ghost in this machine ;)