{"id":2990,"date":"2009-09-16T05:16:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T12:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=2990"},"modified":"2014-09-25T22:13:37","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T05:13:37","slug":"on-the-bart-with-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2009\/09\/16\/on-the-bart-with-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"On the BART with Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The modern Leica at work.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/BART_Guy.jpg\" width=\"602\" height=\"800\"\/><br \/>\n<i>On the Bart. G1, 30mm, f\/5.3, 1\/20, ISO 800<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The Bay Area Rapid Transit (San Francisco subway\/tube\/metro) was rocking and rolling mightily when this was snapped, suggesting that Panasonic is onto something with its OIS anti-shake technology &#8211; check the shutter speed, above.  Don&#8217;t be expecting this feature in a Leica until the M14 comes out three decades hence, at which time the economy will have recovered and some dumb ass banker will lend you $100k to buy the thing.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, the auto white balance in the G1 is every bit as good as that in the Canon 5D, which is to say it&#8217;s awful.  I had to mess with the color sliders in Lightroom 2 to get a semblance of accurate skin tone in this snap.<\/p>\n<p>Doubtless Walker Evans would have killed for this sort of technology, not to mention color, when he snapped this one back in 1938 as part of his subway series:<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Walker_Evans_Subway.jpg\" width=\"477\" height=\"463\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Evans used a camera concealed in his coat triggered with a remote control.  No such subterfuge was called for in my picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The modern Leica at work. On the Bart. G1, 30mm, f\/5.3, 1\/20, ISO 800 The Bay Area Rapid Transit (San Francisco subway\/tube\/metro) was rocking and rolling mightily when this was snapped, suggesting that Panasonic is onto something with its OIS anti-shake technology &#8211; check the shutter speed, above. Don&#8217;t be expecting this feature in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2009\/09\/16\/on-the-bart-with-walker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On the BART with Walker<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2990"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28239,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions\/28239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}