Cambridge at Dusk

Testing out the G12 for evening photography before heading for northern parts after Christmas - seems to do a very good job at ISO 400 the noise is reasonable (1/60 2.8) and it gives good balance of daylight and artificial light (no colour correction applied)

Very small toadstools

As it had rained this week, we went to Gamlingay Wood in search of toadstools. The only ones we found were very small indeed which tested the macro facilities on our Lumix and G12 compact cameras.

More tests with G12

I used some time in the Travelodge, where we are having an overnight stay before early flight to Geneva in the morning, to try bit more macro. This time I tried with focus set to servo and got a few acceptable images.

Close-up Hollyhock

Experimenting with G12 macro mode. It seems to be hit and miss but can produce very reasonable close-up images when the focus locks in