The compact Chronicles - Trusting the digicam to deliver.

 It has been well over a year since I began my compact camera exploits, my collection started with a Canon S95 and a Lumix LX5, both of which remain firm favourites, along with a few others I have acquired in the ensuing months.

Initially, I would take one of the compacts alongside my main camera (Lumix GX8) on my weekend photo walks, perhaps thinking I may miss a good image by using the supposedly lesser camera, yet I was perfectly happy to have just a compact camera with me in my rucksack on my journeys to and from work, if I fancied an impromptu shoot around town. 

It was late into the summer last year, that I was inspired to begin a theme of shooting images in the square format, my Lumix LX5 and subsequent LX7, have a dedicated aspect ratio dial to adjust the aspect ratio, so I was using both cameras a lot more and becoming more and more surprised at just how good the images were from such a small sensor camera.

Having chased the 'full frame' dream for so long, I had become blinkered in my creativity,  small sensor cameras were not for me.... 

Or so I thought.
Slowly but surely I was realising that the in camera black and white profiles were actually pretty good, the grain or noise from the smaller sensor was adding a little something that I liked.

On a few recent photo walks, I have taken just one or two of my compact collection, leaving the 'big' camera behind and I have been enjoying the experience a lot.

A recent new year photo shoot in Sidmouth, saw me using my Lumix LX7 exclusively, it seems the more I use a smaller camera, the more I want to shoot.

As is my preference these days, the majority were shot in the square format, I like the 'snapshot' feel of this format.

With the first 'normal' weekend after the festivities just a couple of days away, I am already looking forward to my next outing.