Showing posts with label Samsung NX300. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Samsung NX300. Show all posts
Sunday, November 15, 2015
Oh How I've Missed You!
I've missed so much about blogging...the camaraderie with the community, the intimacy with the wonderful iPhone photographers that I have featured, the sharing of the beauty that so many put out to the world with no hope of gain for themselves!
Dare I say I may re-enter the blogging world in a very limited basis...why not? I may manage only a couple of posts a month, but it's something I really want to continue to do.
There is so much to share in this ever expanding world of iPhone photography. My latest love is the Snapseed update. I'm loving the Stacks feature which allows for copying and inserting the edits done on one image to another. Using this feature, you can also "paint" in an effect on just a portion of an image. Currently there is no way to save presets of Stacks you have created, but you can create an album on your iPhone or iPad called Presets and then save the photos with the editing combinations you like to that folder. When you want to recreate that "look" just open the image copy the Stacks and Insert them into another photo. This is an easy way to create a series of images with the same effect.
To copy the steps you performed on a particular image, Click on the number in the white square in the top right corner. This will open up a menu along the lower right side that shows the individual steps taken. Click on the three dots in the upper right hand corner and select "Copy". Open another image and click on the "0" in the white square. Click on the three dots and select "Insert". Click on each edit step until you have added them all to your new image and Save.
I did this with a recent photo shoot of my granddaughter (images were shot with a Samsung NX300 - I know it's not a mobile device but I love the narrow depth of field I get with the 30mm pancake lens).
If Google is listening, we would love the ability to save presets!
I look forward to seeing you all on a part-time basis.
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Dare I say I may re-enter the blogging world in a very limited basis...why not? I may manage only a couple of posts a month, but it's something I really want to continue to do.
To copy the steps you performed on a particular image, Click on the number in the white square in the top right corner. This will open up a menu along the lower right side that shows the individual steps taken. Click on the three dots in the upper right hand corner and select "Copy". Open another image and click on the "0" in the white square. Click on the three dots and select "Insert". Click on each edit step until you have added them all to your new image and Save.
I did this with a recent photo shoot of my granddaughter (images were shot with a Samsung NX300 - I know it's not a mobile device but I love the narrow depth of field I get with the 30mm pancake lens).
If Google is listening, we would love the ability to save presets!
I look forward to seeing you all on a part-time basis.
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Thursday, November 5, 2015
iPhone 5s vs Samsung NX300
I recently purchased a Samsung NX300 camera. I purchased mine from Best Buy and although the price in the store was $599.99, they price-matched Amazon's $499.99 listing! No, I haven't defected to "the dark side" and abandoned my iPhone, I just wanted another camera to use when photographing my grandchildren and my Canon was cumbersome and outdated. I opted for the NX300 on the advice of @lomokev on Instagram who highly recommended it.
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| Samsung NX300 © Geri Centonze |
I've only had it for about a week and haven't even read the user's manual yet, but I did manage to do some side by side shooting with the Samsung and the iPhone 5s today to see how the results compare. So far the one feature I really like on the NX300 is the wi-fi capability which allows me to automatically back-up to my Mac or transfer to my iPad. I can even crop, adjust and edit images right on the camera - so, is this considered a mobile device or a traditional camera or somewhere in between? It is mirrorless, so what does that make it? I can even use my iPhone as a remote shutter which will help when I want to get in a group family photo!
I'll leave it to you to figure out which are the Samsung shots and which are the iPhone 5s images. No editing was done except for cropping and I shot with the automatic setting on the Samsung in order to make the playing field as even as possible. If you'd like to play along, just go through the images and make a note of the numbers you think were shot with the iPhone. Then check the bottom of the post to see if you were right. Side by side collages were made using Diptic and numbers were added with Font Art (I was unable to find link to Font Art - it may have been removed from The App Store).
Well, do you give up or was it easy for you to spot the iPhone photos? Some of the differences are obvious, like the obvious depth of field in #11 and #12 show that #11 is the iPhone shot, but other images like #5 and #6 are so close, it's hard to tell the difference. I'd say if you have an iPhone, you have a pretty good little camera on your hands.
Below are the numbers of the iPhone shots:
#2, #3, #6, #8, #10, #11
Did you get them all right? It looks like the Samsung may deliver a more true-to-life result for color and you can't get the shallow depth of field with the iPhone...but there's an app for that. Just see what I did with image #11 using AfterFocus and Snapseed.
I'm still thinking the best camera is the one I have with me and nine times out of ten that will be my iPhone!
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