[Leica] Flower Bazaar

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Brian, Don, Luis, Douglas
Thanks for looking.

Brian, it is both a retail and a wholesale market.

Don, actually we are a rain deficit area, these flowers come from two areas
- in the lower slopes of the Nilgiri mountains, and around Bengaluru. Both
the areas are 5-6 hours away by road. The Nikon Z8 is identical in
operation to the Z9, except it is smaller and lighter, so I did not really
have a learning curve because I have been using the Z9 since it was
released.

Luis, I converted that to B&W only because the background was chaotic with
colour, and very distracting - the single biggest reason why I convert to
B&W.

Douglas, the Z8 is a smashing all round camera, and IMHO the Nikon Z lenses
are equal, or, at worst, very close to Zeiss/Leica optics at a fraction of
the cost. The Nikkor Z24-70mm f2.8S lens I was using is the best normal
zoom I have ever used. Hire the Z8 with either this lens, or the equally
impressive Nikkor Z24-120mm f4S lens, and give it a whirl. You won't be
disappointed. The batteries (EN-EL 15C iteration) give me around 400-500
shots per charge, and more if I switch the rear LCD panel off, which is
quite acceptable for me. Anyway, how much effort does it take to slip
another small, lightweight battery into your trouser pocket, together with
a spare card? Not very much, in reality. These issues are only raised by
social media fanboys itching to find fault for the sake of doing so, i.e.
clickbait! I have amassed half a dozen batteries, because the batteries
have remained constant from the D800/800E and then the D500/850, through
the Z6 & Z7 series, and now the Z8 - of course with capacity increases at
each iteration, but they are completely interchangeable.

Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 4:31 PM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> Jayanand
> I like them all - very old masterish indeed - but I'm really taken with
> "Engrossed" with "Cinematic" a close second. Well done.
> I'll have to go in and give one of those Z8s a try. I see that battery
> life is marked down. What do you think?
>
> Douglas
>
>
> On 22/06/2023 03:58, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote:
> >   I had gone to the Flower Bazaar in Parrys in Chennai to test drive the
> > newly released Nikon Z8 with the Nikkor Z24-70mm f2.8S lens. It is a
> tough
> > place to photograph, as the shops have three sources of light - LED,
> > Tungsten and Daylight with totally different colour characteristics, as
> > well as colours bouncing off the flowers, which also leads to very harsh
> > contrast.
> >
> > In other words, the ideal place to test out new equipment!
> >
> > This was my first visit in four years (thanks to the Covid shutdowns) to
> > this overcrowded, busy market, which we used to visit every month or two
> in
> > the days before the pandemic struck. I did an exposure tweak for this
> > series - I shot in Highlight Priority mode with an exposure compensation
> of
> > +1.7 to bring out detail in the faces in the scene.
> >
> > Cinematic:
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/parrys/Parrys-20230528-023-Enhanced-NR-Edit.jpg.html
> >
> > Conversation:
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/parrys/Parrys-20230528-052-Enhanced-NR-Edit.jpg.html
> >
> > Engrossed:
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/parrys/Parrys-20230528-067-Enhanced-NR-Edit.jpg.html
> >
> > Environmental Portrait:
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/parrys/Parrys-20230528-079-Edit.jpg.html
> >
> > Relaxed:
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/parrys/Parrys-20230528-085-Enhanced-NR-EditBW.jpg.html
> >
> > Shadow Side Portrait:
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/parrys/Parrys-20230528-076-Enhanced-NR-Edit.jpg.html
> >
> > Please see LARGE
> >
> > Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome
> >
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
> >
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