{"id":1364,"date":"2014-03-01T08:45:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T07:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2014-03-01T09:46:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T08:46:51","slug":"remember-when-there-was-something-called-dark-and-you-couldnt-make-photographs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2014\/remember-when-there-was-something-called-dark-and-you-couldnt-make-photographs\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember When There Was Something Called Dark and You Couldn&#8217;t Make Photographs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, this isn&#8217;t my own quote, but it is very apposite. I decided to break my journey back from Kingston Lacy in Salisbury, and took a quick walk before dinner down from my hotel (apparently the longest continuously operating hostelry in the world!) to the cathedral. I popped the Panasonic GX7 with its new 12-35mm lens over my shoulder, and I&#8217;m glad I did. The cathedral is floodlit, although not to excess, and I caught it when there was just a hint of blue left in the rapidly darkening night sky.<\/p>\n<p>In the past a photo like the above could only have been created with a tripod and patience. No more. The GX7 produces fine quality at ISO 3200,and the stabilisation of the lens allows it to be hand-held down to about 1\/10. I didn&#8217;t even have to exploit the f\/2.8 aperture, which would have given me another stop. Essentially we have now reached the point where if I can see something, my newer cameras can photograph it.<\/p>\n<p>Next time, photography through the lens cap! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, this isn&#8217;t my own quote, but it is very apposite. I decided to break my journey back from Kingston Lacy in Salisbury, and took a quick walk before dinner down from my hotel (apparently the longest continuously operating hostelry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2014\/remember-when-there-was-something-called-dark-and-you-couldnt-make-photographs\/\">Continue reading <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":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}