First thought. Leica clone. lol.

Dont underestimate china camera though. If they put their mind to it, they can manufactured good camera at really affordable price. Just check out their smartphones. And they can make good optics like mitakon.

Though, i would pass the Leica clone for now cause 1st gen tend to suck. Despite calling it the cheap Leica clone, the spec is rather meh and you find almost similar pricing and spec of m43 on older olympic or panasonic model.

You forgot to add only when the subject is static. You can't exactly use on moving subject faster than shutter unless you want motion blur.

Generally just turn it off. If the subject not moving and you want clean iso, you can turn it on again at your leisure.

Pretty sure by default it will turn on when half press shutter. Though don't quote me on that and go test it yourself first.

? I would have thought lx100 is more expensive and rare to find than rx100 mkiii

In that case either 1st or 2nd gen rx100, (or just get an ipon). I dont think anything else can compete with its size, price and relative img quality.

Also easily available. I dont see lx100 anywhere (correct me if wrong).

Oh nice! Been wondering where are all those photos. This year too many damn photographers (I think I stepped on so many foot). Yet not much to be found in facebook and flickr some reason.

Either increase exposure, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks or adjust tone curve (pull the mid tone up) in photo editor.

I thought rather obvious unless u have specifics to ur question.

Try not to use flash in cosplay convention (unless u have large softbox and not paise....). Try to use natural light as much as possible cause its more even. In other word try to get the model facing the window. Another way is to up the shutter speed so the background is darker but depend on ur flash sync.

There are a few technique u can use in LR. Like i mentioned, drag the mid tone of the tone curve. Or introduce a little vignetting so centre is brighter. But most portrait i see, they use brush to brighten and smooth out subjects face.

This post has been edited by DaddyO: Sep 11 2017, 02:38 PM