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My thoughts on photography and gear have been kind of in a flux lately. Not long ago, I bought a near mint X-T1 + XF 18-55. While the combo is capable of excellent images if I do my part, I have been finding the gear vaguely unsatisfying, to the point that I have considered just selling them. Thinking that perhaps this will pass, I'm just going to stick them in a camera bag in the corner for a while. In the meantime, I have decided to take upon myself a challenge to use only my small sensor cameras. I've had an original Pentax Q for several years, and it has been used many times to take photos from a model airplane, using the intervalometer. I've also tinkered around with adapted lenses, as well as the 06 zoom. The first photo below is from the 06. I also have the Fuji X30, which is capable of some nice imagery itself. The second photo below is from the X30. The purpose of this personal challenge is not to compare the cameras against each other, or against the X-T1. My goal is to challenge myself to get the most from the equipment that I can, stressing good composition and interesting subject matter, and discovering just what I can do within the limitations of these cameras. I have no timeline in mind . . . we'll just see how it goes. Stay tuned.
Hopefully I haven't missed an existing thread but if I have please let me know. Otherwise please do share your lighthouse images. Here is a shot of one of the few lighthouses here in Western Australia, the Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse. Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse {01_04} by Andrew Priest (Aushiker), on Flickr This photograph continues my social history project documenting both the mundane and the interesting in Western Australian through the medium of Waymarking [1]. The Cape Naturaliste lighthouse is a heritage listed building/lighthouse which was built in 1904. According to the Heritage Council the: "Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse and Quarters was an important link in the development of coastal lights which eventually circled mainland Australia, following an inter-colonial conference held in 1873 that recognised the need for additional lights along the Australian coastline. The Chance Brothers lens and optical equipment is still in operation in the lighthouse and is a piece of precision engineering equipment which has continued in perfect working order since 1903." [1] Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse - Coastal Lighthouses on Waymarking.com [2] Reference: Heritage Council (n.d.). Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse and Quarters. Retrieved from http://inherit.stateheritage.wa.gov.au/Admin/api/file/200c1adb-3a9f-8d8f-74ce-d751f6e04371
Bird photography is most often associated with heavy SLR bodies that shoot at machine gun speed with long lenses nicknamed as 'Bazookas'. Show photographs of birds taken with compact cameras.

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