Re: Black and White, again...

"William Black" <william.black@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Dudley Hanks" <hanks.dudley@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "William Black" <william.black@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Well I looked at the digital stuff for decent black and white 
>>> photography on an unobtrusive digital camera.
>>>
>>> I've come up with a couple of possibilities:
>>>
>>> The Cannon Powershot G9,  which seems to do everything I want, 
although 
>>> I'm not too sure how accessible the manual controls are,  and the 
>>> Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX2.
>>>
>>> Both are somewhere around the high end of my budget.
>>>
>>> Any comments?
>>>
>>> Because I can still feel the idea of buying a new Voigtlander 
>>> rangefinder tugging at me...
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> William Black
>>>
>>>
>>> I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
>>> Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
>>> I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough
gate
>>> All these moments will be lost in time,  like icecream on the beach
>>> Time for tea.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> If I were spending your money, I might be tempted to say try the 
>> Panasonic.
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>> If I were spending my money, I'd pocket the Canon without even thinking

>> about the Panasonic.
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> That's sort of what I was thinking.
>
> The Canon is rugged,  reliable,  well known and almost 'a standard'.
>
> The Panasonic is new,  nobody I know owns a Panasonic camera and I
haven't 
> seen any results from one,  ever...
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>
FWIIW, one of the better flower photographers in my area, Long Island New 
York, uses a Panasonic exclusively. One of the big advantages of a point
and 
shoot camera is that it allows you to use a flexible viewing screen for 
composition.



-- 
Peter