Home cooked salmon cream sauce spaghetti with chives, mixed herbs and pepper. Served with broccoli soup.
Picture taken with Leica V-Lux 3 compact digital camera in Macro mode. Handheld snapshot at f/2.8, 1/15 sec, ISO400, 25mm (35mm equiv).
The Leica V-Lux 3 compact digital camera has a mean Macro mode. You can stick the lens right into the food and still get pin sharp snapshots of your favourite food.
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.
The courier dropped off the Leica V-Lux 3 compact digital camera today for review. The new compact had just been announced last week and will be available from January 2012 at S$1,345.
The Leica V-Lux 3 was announced on 13 December 2011.
The review unit came in a black velvet pouch. In it was the camera itself, a battery and a charger with cable.
The camera is light but muscular for a compact but it pacts a 24x optical zoom lens that goes from 25 – 600mm (35mm equivalent focal lengths).
The Leica V-Lux 3 will be available in January 2012 for S$1,345.
The Leica DC Vario-Elmarit ASPH super telephoto zoom lens has an aperture range of f/2.8 – 5.2.
The camera has a 12.1-megapixel CMOS image sensor and records full-HD video in AVCHD format with 1920 x 1080 pixels at 60 full frames per second.
What caught my eye was the 460,000-pixel 3” LCD display that is fully articulated. It can be folded out to face any direction to allow the photographer to shoot from awkward angles.
I’ll be trying out the camera over the holiday period to see whether its performance matches its good looks.
This versatile all-in-one camera for creative stills and video will be available from January 2012 at S$1,345.
Leica V-Lux 3 compact digital camera, available in January 2012
The Leica V-Lux 3 is a new compact digital camera that features a Leica DC Vario-Elmarit 4.5 – 108 mm f/2.8 – 5.2 ASPH super-telephoto zoom lens.
“The camera is an attractive alternative to entry-level DSLR cameras with interchangeable lenses,’ says Peter Kruschewski, product manager for Digital Compact Cameras at Leica Camera AG.That’s 25-600mm (35mm equivalent) in its focal length range.
This 24x optical zoom makes the camera flexible for shooting a wide range of photographic situations, from landscape, architecture and travel, to sports, portraits and wildlife.
The newly developed 12.1-megapixel CMOS image sensor promises exceptional image quality for all applications.
The V-Lux 3 comes with an extensive range of video options and video quality comparable with that delivered by premium-range camcorders.
25-600mm focal length, 24x zoom
The camera captures full-HD video in AVCHD format with 1920 × 1080 pixels and 60 full frames per second.
This 1080p60 video format captures fast movement in detail, and is ideal for conversion to alternative resolutions and refresh rates.
The entire 24-fold zoom range is available during video recording and an integrated stereo microphone with an electronic wind noise filter promises a crystal-clear soundtrack.
The Leica V-Lux 3 is versatile for shooting the whole spectrum of photograhy, from landscapes and portraits, to travel and sports.
The V-Lux 3 boasts a high-speed burst-shooting capability, with bursts of 12 frames per second at full resolution, or 60 frames per second at a resolution of 3.5 megapixels – making it one of the fastest burst-shooting cameras in its class.
“This innovative ‘all-in-one’ solution combines classic photography functions with video quality that can only normally be found on premium camcorders,” says Sunil Kaul, Managing Director of Leica Camera Asia Pacific.The 3″ LCD display has 460,000 pixels and can be twisted and turned in almost any direction, allowing composition of shots at awkward angles.
The V-Lux 3 has an integrated handgrip for a steady grasp, while its light weight allows one-handed shooting. There is a dedicated button on the top deck of the camera for instant video recording.
Bundled with the camera Adobe Photoshop Elements, a photo organizing and editing software; and Adobe Premiere Elements for processing AVCHD video and addition of audio and video effects.
The Leica V-Lux 3 will be available from authorised Leica dealers from January 2012 at S$1,345 with 7% GST.
Leica Camera sales from first half of this year (April 1 to September 30, 2011) increased by a double digit 56% compared to the corresponding period last year (April 1 to September 30, 2010).
Sales in Asia contributed to 23.7% of Leica’s global sales.
The Company’s success drivers were the Leica M9 rangefinder camera, the S2 professional system, as well as the Leica X1 compact camera.
The Leica compact camera models V-Lux 20, V-Lux 2 and D-Lux 5 also made essential contributions to the positive overall development.
Further success drivers are the Rangemaster and Televid product lines in the Leica Sport optics product group.
Wu Bai launching his first photo exhibition in Singapore from Oct 22 - Dec 2.
Wu Bai (吳俊霖 Wu Jun Ling) is best known for his powerful live shows and rock ballads, Wu Bai composes and writes his own tunes, mostly inspired from his own life experiences. Some of the hits written by the multi award-winning musician include 浪人情歌 (Wanderer’s Love Song) and 挪威的森林 (Norwegian Woods).
Wu Bai says he enjoys hitting the streets of the countries he visits to get the feel of real life.
Another avenue of expression for the talented Mandarin rock artiste is his photography. He has published two photo books in 2007 and 2009.
“More Earth” will be open to the public from today until December 2, 2011. Open daily from 10 am till 8 pm, admission is free.
Wu Bai personally launched the exhibition yesterday and spoke in depth for more than half an hour about his passion for photography, despite a bad throat.
He shared that black-and-white photography is his style of choice, even though he started out with colour photography. He had discovered the sensuous touch of black-and-white photography after he viewed some photos of snow scenes that he had taken, and was taken with the almost black-and-white look of those photos.
Wu Bai shares some of the photos he took in Singapore on his iPad.
The photos for “More Earth” were selected based on his concern with how human development and construction is rapidly encroaching on nature, with greens and natural waterways superseded by concrete and steel structures, many of which were not even really necessary.
| Date | 22 Oct – 2 Dec, 2011 |
| Time | 10 am to 8 pm |
| Venue | Leica store, Raffles Hotel |
| Address | Raffles Hotel Arcade #01-18 |
The photos for the exhibition were taken using his Leica M6 and M7 with the 28mm f/2 M Summicron lens.
Plans to bring the exhibition to other countries in South East Asia are underway.
The Leica store at Raffles Hotel Arcade in Singapore celebrates its first anniversary.
The Leica store in the Raffles Hotel Arcade (#01-18) first opened its doors on October 10th last year.
Special edition Leica D-Lux 5 Titanium compact digital camera.
As part of its first anniversary celebrations, it has launched the Special Edition of hte Leica D-Lux 5 Titanium compact digital camera.
It also launched the first photography exhibition in Singapore by Taiwanese rock singer Wu Bai (伍佰).
The compact camera has an elegant silver-grey Titanium look, and sports a 10.1-megapixel, 1/1.63” CCD sensor that records 720 pixel HD video.
Wu Bai talks about his passion for photography.
Focal range is from 24 to 90 mm (35mm equivalent).
Priced at SS$1,595, the camera comes bundled with the full version of Photoshop Lightroom, which is worth some S$400 on its own.
The standard Leica D-Lux 5 retails at S$1,200.
Wu Bai’s exhibition of 14 black-and-white photos is themed “More Earth” and features photos of the environment that he took in Taiwan.
The exhibition will begin tomorrow and last till December 2, 2011.
It will be open daily from 10 am to 8 pm, admission free.
Leica Camera is a German optics company that has a long heritage of over 162 years in quality German engineering. Leica makes cameras, high quality lenses and sport optic tools.
The company has been in the forefront of photojournalism and related activities – having been bestowed the Oskar Barnack Award for high quality reportage photography.
Leica Camera has presented photographs taken by international photographers through its galleries offering access to life’s hidden stories.
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