PJD
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Love the photo. Where is the location? Is this in your home country, or are you travelling?
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*** January 2025 Image and Video Thread ***
- Thread starter Pete_W
- Start date
PJD
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The "SOUTHERN PACIFIC 4449" locomotive, decorated for the holidays, inside the train "barn" today at the ORHC. More to come ...
- Panasonic - DC-S5M2X
- LUMIX S 20-60/F3.5-5.6
- 20.0 mm
- ƒ/3.5
- 1/60 sec
- Center-Weighted Average
- Manual exposure
- ISO 1250
PJD
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The "SPOKANE, PORTLAND & SEATTLE 700" locomotive inside the barn/shed/enginehouse at the ORHC today. Note the little boy at the lower-left for scale. More to come ... soonish ...
- Panasonic - DC-S5M2X
- LUMIX S 20-60/F3.5-5.6
- 20.0 mm
- ƒ/8
- 1/15 sec
- Center-Weighted Average
- Manual exposure
- ISO 1600
The Rigger
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Hey @Pete_W...
If you ever make it over here to the US, beyond the edge of the civilized world, be sure to spend a day at the B&O (for"Baltimore & Ohio") Railroad Museum, located oddly enough in central Baltimore, Maryland. There's some truly astounding rolling stock to see and occasionally ride on there, including a mile or two of some of the first railroad track laid in North America.
To keep this on-topic: Photo ops abound.
If you ever make it over here to the US, beyond the edge of the civilized world, be sure to spend a day at the B&O (for"Baltimore & Ohio") Railroad Museum, located oddly enough in central Baltimore, Maryland. There's some truly astounding rolling stock to see and occasionally ride on there, including a mile or two of some of the first railroad track laid in North America.
To keep this on-topic: Photo ops abound.
Thanks, I would love to visit. I used to travel to the US for work in my past two jobs but have never been to Maryland. My current job only requires occasional interstate travel here in Australia and I've not left the country since before covid! Maybe one day!
Trains here in Australia are not fast either. Politicians have been arguing for decades over building fast trains between cities but unfortunately most of them seem to have been captured by the road freight industry, so they don't spend money on new and straighter rail lines.
I wonder what would happen if you tried to take a photo like the first one in this thread of a high speed train: would the camera’s autofocus be able to keep up?
My sister lives in France, and I’ve been on the TGV (Trains à Grande Vitesse) that can go up to 320kmph / 199mph a couple of times: they’re so quiet and smooth that you don’t realise how fast they’re going until you try to look at anything close to the track: it’s gone before your eyes have had a chance to recognise what’s there.
It's a good question Alan, although I don't know the answer. The fastest trains I've photographed have been travelling at about 120km/h and I have been able to get sharp photos with the G95, the S5 (both DFD) and the S5II (PDAF). I typically use 1/800s shutter speed for moving trains which works fine. For something as fast as 320km/h the AF may well struggle, and perhaps panning might be required.
Markuswelder
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Down on the farm. Went for a wander a few minutes back, got caught in some showers 
- Panasonic - DC-S5
- 19.0 mm
- ƒ/11
- 1/100 sec
- Pattern
- Auto exposure
- -0.3
- ISO 100
Markuswelder
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I was trying to get something like this but with the cow peering into the lens, cows being the inquisitive creatures they are lol, above was the best I could manage. The old saying about working with animals and children rings true
- Panasonic - DC-S5
- 14.0 mm
- ƒ/11
- 1/60 sec
- Pattern
- Auto exposure
- ISO 100
PJD
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For comparison, the photos below were shot using my iPhone 16 Pro using its Apple RAW [DNG] format.
- Apple - iPhone 16 Pro
- iPhone 16 Pro back triple camera 6.765mm f/1.78
- 6.8 mm
- ƒ/1.77999997139
- 1/789 sec
- Pattern
- Auto exposure
- ISO 64
- Apple - iPhone 16 Pro
- iPhone 16 Pro back triple camera 6.765mm f/1.78
- 6.8 mm
- ƒ/1.77999997139
- 1/257 sec
- Pattern
- Auto exposure
- ISO 100
The cow couldn't look up - too much tasty green stuff!I was trying to get something like this but with the cow peering into the lens, cows being the inquisitive creatures they are lol, above was the best I could manage. The old saying about working with animals and children rings true
xaviergut
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Frozen landscape :
It looks like trees in spring, but it is ice:
This was after the first sunset of 2025:
- Panasonic - DC-S5
- 65mm F2 DG DN | Contemporary 020
- 65.0 mm
- ƒ/9
- 1/1250 sec
- Pattern
- Auto exposure
- ISO 400
It looks like trees in spring, but it is ice:
- Panasonic - DC-S5
- 65mm F2 DG DN | Contemporary 020
- 65.0 mm
- ƒ/5
- 1/1000 sec
- Pattern
- Auto exposure
- ISO 100
This was after the first sunset of 2025:
- Panasonic - DC-S5
- LUMIX S 20-60/F3.5-5.6
- 44.0 mm
- ƒ/4.9
- 1/60 sec
- Pattern
- Auto exposure
- ISO 400
Markuswelder
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Calm before the storm
- Panasonic - DC-S5
- 26.0 mm
- ƒ/8
- 1/250 sec
- Pattern
- Auto exposure
- 0.3
- ISO 100
This photo was taken just after 3:00pm on a very hot summer afternoon with the 70-300mm lens at full stretch. The front of the loco in a couple of previous frames was affected by heat haze but I thought this one was acceptable, although you can see the affect of the haze not far behind.
Qube Logistics intermodal south of Goulburn, passing the junction to Canberra.
Qube Logistics intermodal south of Goulburn, passing the junction to Canberra.
- Panasonic - DC-S5M2
- LUMIX S 70-300/F4.5-5.6
- 300.0 mm
- ƒ/10
- 1/800 sec
- Pattern
- Auto exposure
- ISO 400