The Easter weekend saw us paying a visit to Cannington Walled Gardens in the sunshine, where I made this image of a tulip. I like to think that this has a similar look and feel to that of last year's images from Tyntesfield, which is as close as you get to a house style on this blog.
Again, I was working with my Alpha 550 and again I found myself niggled by its limitations. In this case, I was shooting hand-held, using live view and holding the camera at waste level as I felt slightly inhibited about sprawling full length on the formal lawn. Back in the day, the live view implementation was considered to be amongst the best, but now...For one thing, you have to switch between live view and the OVF manually, using a switch that would be right at home on a tractor. The screen tilts, but doesn't swivel, so shooting in portrait format was almost impossible. And talking of the OVF, it has 95% coverage only, which means that extraneous things creep in at the edge of the fame, like that leaf on the left of this image.
<rant>As an aside, it strikes me that those people who go on about the superiority of an OVF over an EVF are camera snobs who have lashed out on top end gear with >99% OVF coverage and need to justify the expense. An EVF gives 100% coverage and is a real step forwards for the rest of us plebs.</rant>
I could go on, but I think that you get the idea - I suspect that the A550's days are numbered.
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