1 June 2019
Torquay
I am currently almost without a camera, having sold my Sony a7ii and Fujifilm x70 in preparation for buying a Ricoh GR III. However getting stock of the Ricoh in Australia is proving very difficult. Not to worry, I decided to resurrect my Sony RX100, purchased in 2012.
This camera has had a tough life, one of the strap lug things is ripped out and until today it was making a horrible buzzing sound. I thought I had broken the optical image stabilisation, but then recently I read that this was a common fault, and fixed with a firmware update in 2016. I was dubious, but updating the firmware did indeed fix the buzzing sound, Sony RX100 lives on!
Despite my old RX100 having zoom, I shot wide open all day. I also noticed a lot more noise in the water than with my much newer now sold cameras, but it does not matter much. I dont actually remember when I last shot raw with this little Sony, on the last few trips I used it on, I show jpeg to use the multi frame noise reduction. Thats enough camera talk.
As for Torquay, it is about a 1.5 hour drive from central Melbourne, very popular in summer, sleepy on the first day of winter. The whole area is famous for surfing.
Here is a beach. Not great sand.
These trees are very common around the Australian coastline, they generally have a silvery type of appearance.
More beach and some threatening clouds, but it never rained.
A grassy area on a dark day.
Sea, cliffs rocks. Taken from a lookout spot.
Probably the best photo of this small set. I used the new texture tool in lightroom on some of these.
Very similar to the above photo, taken from a lower angle, tried to compose it so that there was no buildings in the shot, a small part snuck into the right edge which I could easily crop out... oh well.