This little camera is all about fun - I've been having a blast with it. I'm sure some of the others who are early adopters feel the same way and would be willing to add some of their favorites here, too. I have way too many favorites and examples, pictures I took from some non-artistic reason but offer something about the camera. I've started to write a couple of threads but never quite get them finished or else I think of something I want to take that would be a better explanation or whatever. So this is just for fun, some random snaps I've taken over the past couple of weeks.
A very large bank ATM security camera, isn't it? Taken with the DA40, my new lens. Still getting used to it.
I love black and white, but have never tried to shoot it much in the past. So for the most part, I keep the K-S1 set to raw+ with black and white as the processing mode (instead of natural which I've always used in the past). That gives me the best of both worlds - a preview of what a scene could look like in b&w plus the raw file if I shoot something that really needs color. It's been interesting, I've found a few things worked much better than I expected and other things that didn't. I'm still learning.
Cityscape with the DA40:
Before sunrise, taken at ISO 8000 and processed how I like. I thought it cleaned up nicely. DA40 again.
Spying through the window, thought the dynamic range here was not bad at all. ISO 4000
To change gears a bit - I might work in the big city, but I'd rather be somewhere else on my off-time. I don't know why but I like the black and white version of this picture better than the color one.
Mountain morning calm, DA40
A different town sign, DA40
Grooming gull, waiting for a hand-out, DA 35. It was quite windy and I didn't feel like changing lenses after I walked along the beach, taking pictures of shells. The sea gulls are VERY tame here.
Back at work, I spent one recent lunch break walking around a botanical garden. For some reason, I liked the black and white jpg version instead of the color RAW one. DA35 macro.
The color version (100% crop) is here:
http://mtngal.zenfolio.com/img/s10/v106/p205074916.jpg - the raw file isn't as forgiving, I ran into dof problems and it was windy. The b&w version was more forgiving for some reason.
I've posted some other macros in the macro category also.