My wife hijacked the Leica V-Lux 3 review unit to snap photos of the gingerbread men she’d baked for our children’s friends. In return, I decided to hijack my wife’s X’mas project for this post.
Two happy gingerbread men posing for the camera.
This turned out to be a good test of how user-friendly the compact digital camera is.
These two gingerbread men aren't running anywhere.
My wife was making little gift bags of DIY gingerbread man decorating kits for our children’s friends when they came for a party.
In a very pretty cookie bag were a gingerbread man she’d baked, a star cookie, a packet of M&Ms, a tube of icing, with a candy cane thrown in in case gingerbread man needed some support.
Included were simple instructions on decorating the cookies, printed on my newly bought Epson printer.
Wifey claims to have technological skills stuck somewhere in the Jurassic age, so the main test of the camera would be its ease of use.
DIY decorate your own gingerbread men goodie bag.
Actually, she’s a better photographer than I am, it’s just that she had left the snapping to me all these years and has gotten left behind in the film era.
She managed to turn it on, find the right auto dial, turn it to macro mode and snapped away.
The lighting was rather challenging because it was raining all day so she couldn’t take the photos outdoors in natural lighting.
Instead, she was restricted to our dining room, with very dim lighting, which caused a lot of shadows.
According to her, “the camera was really easy to use, it focused very quickly even though the objects were very close and not well-lit.”
The Leica V-Lux 3 preserved the ambience of the living room light but produced sharp images even though the snapshots were taken handheld without using a tripod.
That’s saying something about the ease-of-use of this camera and its focusing ability.
The photos turned out really well. So was the reception to the gingerbread men.
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