The weather in Portland today is dreadful. It’s frigid. It’s dim. It’s foggy. Not in any way photography weather.

But still. I had to try. I took a short walk today and took photographs, mostly of trees and walls. I’m not proud of my initial results but they did give me a chance to learn a few things about the camera.

Specifically for me, I learned:

• The LCD makes things look overexposed by about a stop, but they are not. Trying to second-guess this ended with underexposed shots.
• The saturation setting in the “Picture Style” area works. Of course you can do all of this post-process, too.
• Color rendition is superb even in “Standard” picture style setting.

Here is a photo for you. Click for full resolution. Sorry about the slight camera shake. It’s dark out and my shutter speed was only 1/45.

Spouty