Rocco Galatioto, nice photos and good food

Rain rain go away. It's been rainy and cold in NYC. Global cooling, perhaps? Taken with my LX 3.

If the tittle seems rather mushy or even trite, what follows is anything but. I have had a love relationship with this camera for many years and I used it for my professional needs for some time. I originally traded the Canon 1D for my first D1X and then bought a second one. BTW all at [ARMATO PHOTO VIDEO.] These were then traded for two D2h's that I used for a long time and once again I returned to using 2 D1X's. I now use a d700 and a D2X for my pro work while I keep a Canon 5D and 30D for personal use. Is there a 5DII in the pipeline...perhaps, but I digress. I know that this sounds crazy but I must admit to falling in and out of love with cameras rather quickly. After this long rambling introduction, let me state categorically that after many changes I truly miss this camera. I will also state, that based on my personal experience, this camera has almost no peers in reproducing beautiful colors. Only the Fuji S1 Pro and S2 Pro will beat it. [More on this in subsequent musin...

Taken in from Piazzale Michelangelo in Florence last April, also with the maligned 34-85 3.5-5.5 0n my 5D.

Taken last April in Venice with a Canon 5D and the lowly 24-85 f3.5-4.5 Just a regular EF lens. I do not like to carry heavy L lenses on my trips.

Here are some very recent samples from the LX3; all taken on P mode as I had not even read the instruction book. The photos have an almost romantic look. The location is the Brooklyn Botanic Garden one of the most beautiful spots in NYC. ENJOY

Ho what a camera can do for you. I’m talking about the Panasonic LX3 a little gem that can rekindle one’s love for photography. Let’s face it we are all interested in equipment. We get very excited about new cameras, lenses, and even new programs. It’s like a love affair or an infatuation. Before I go any further, I want to state that I’m not a pixel peeper or an equipment fanatic. I must also state categorically that it’s the photographer Behind the camera that takes the picture. Nevertheless…. Getting my LX3 was a moment that takes me back to other memorable ones. I will never forgot when I got my first real SLR, a Canon Ft , or my first Leica. And that first Nikon Ftn with that superb 105mm f 2.5 that I still have . But I digress. The LX3 is the Panasonic version of the Leica DLux 4. The same exact camera. Both are made by Panasonic. Both have the same electronics, more or less, and both have at their heart the incomparable Vario Summicron f2-2.8. This alone is worth all the excit...

The buzz word today is VIDEO. Its creating quite a stir on many photo websites and blogs. There is great passion for and against video in a still camera. Personally, I have no use for video. Many of my cameras have had video but never used it. However, the profession is changing especially in photo journalism and internet reportage. We now have so called "webisodes" and other areas of interest to the younger photographers who really have no attachment to cameras as such. We, and I speak for myself and many like me who began decades ago, have an attachment to cameras as cameras and video cameras as video cameras. there is a wall that keeps the two media separate and it gives us comfort. This is the way we have been functioning all these years and we can not even accept that one day video will be accepted as the norm in a camcorder. Just today, when I saw the new Olympus digital Pen, I became all excited. This reaction to a basically limited camera is really my way at going ba...