A Stealthy camera solution for Street Photography: video

The more the days go by the more I love this camera guys!

I am really enthusiastic and above all because now I am sure that my choice was not wrong at all.

I wanted a really small, discreet camera, one that nobody pays attention to, wherever I am. Nobody takes this little camera seriously and I think that is great. Exactly like the Ricoh cameras. Only a photographer can guess its potential and among other things, between us, not even all photographers.

With the black tape on is even more inconspicuous. For me, cameras have to answer a question of portability and discretion. A camera like this assures me of photos that I wouldn't otherwise be able to take. Take that of the snalted nails in the metro. I did it on the fly as I spoke.

If I had approached with a rangefinder or a DSLR, framed and shot at that close range, maybe I could have even taken pictures. Perhaps. Here, perhaps that is a detonator for having with me a no thinking camera.

If you ask me how I am working with this camera I am here to answer you:

I work in Shutter Speed mode all the time, letting the camera decide for the aperture, then administering the ISO settings and Shutter Speed. Usually I keep myself between 1/250 and 1/500. ISO I move between 800 and 3200. Often even in sunlight I use 1600 ISO. This is a camera that tends to favor bokeh far more than other cameras in its range. Although this can lead to very effective shots from the point of view of impact, it can sometimes annoy especially those who are street photographers. The lens despite being an f2 I think it works more like a 2.8, that is, I dare to say that it is a falsely declared f2, in outdoor. This means that if I work at ISO 800 the result is often underexposed and that is no good to me because I don’t like a dark blue sky.

Now it seems to me to listen you…why I am not working full manual?

Although I can do it I believe that this is not the philosophy with which I decided to purchase this camera. I have to operate in a way that allows me to have a snapshot camera most of the time. And remember always when we have to work in semi-automatic mode, we should choose one setting in AUTO and selecting manual the other 2 in a so-called triangle system: aperture priority for my way to work and the approach I have it doesn’t work. I am a photographer raising up the camera at the very last moment and pressing the shutter button so the camera is wrong and the times are often too slow. Result: the photo is blurred most of the time.

This is why I need to rule on the shutter speed.

I am using ZONE AUTO FOCUS with facial recognition activated. It works well and I don’t see any issue with that. I don’t believe we have to work with any camera in the same way, I belive that we need to be smart and understanding the different way that works better for any camera we are working with.