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Adventures in the South Island with a Panasonic GM1

Tom Caldwell

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Happy Wanaka locals on a night out

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  • Panasonic - DMC-GM1
  • 30.0 mm
  • ƒ/2.8
  • 1/40 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 3200



Wanaka is a very scenic place

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  • Panasonic - DMC-GM1
  • 1/200 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 200



Wanaka from Iron Mountain - worth the walk

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  • Panasonic - DMC-GM1
  • 1/320 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 125


Plurry cold in the South Island at Easter - Oz was warmer

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  • Panasonic - DMC-GM1
  • 30.0 mm
  • ƒ/2.8
  • 1/160 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 200



Little Miss Jaunty on Iron Mountain on a warmer day

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  • Panasonic - DMC-GM1
  • 1/1600 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 200



From the pass down there lieth Queenstown and that little straight line is the airport m'fella

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  • Panasonic - DMC-GM1
  • 60.0 mm
  • ƒ/5.6
  • 1/800 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 200



The Ditch, on a good day

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  • Panasonic - DMC-GM1
  • 1/800 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 200



Happy ... he worked out that it was not spinning

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  • Panasonic - DMC-GM1
  • 12.0 mm
  • ƒ/2
  • 1/80 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 200



Milford Sound - it was much wetter than it looked

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  • Panasonic - DMC-GM1
  • 12.0 mm
  • ƒ/4.5
  • 1/320 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 200



If the image is soft it is because by this stage the camera might as well have been dropped in a bucket of water. At least the flag is not too bad. The same camera and lens dried out is still working nine years later.

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  • Panasonic - DMC-GM1
  • 13.0 mm
  • ƒ/4
  • 1/500 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 200
 
Great images Tom
 
Ahhh yes, a slice of home. Worked in Queenstown and Wanaka for quite awhile. Funny walking around in a tee shirt when it's -6 degrees. Beautiful places they are and well done Tom.

Danny.
 
The last image was very soft as the camera was drenched, soaking wet and water streaming off the lens - it is a tribute to the GM1 and the kit lens that was the only one I had the guts to use in such wet conditions. But I carefully dried both on the way back to Te Anau and left them in indirect heat overnight - seems ot have worked.
 
The last image was very soft as the camera was drenched, soaking wet and water streaming off the lens - it is a tribute to the GM1 and the kit lens that was the only one I had the guts to use in such wet conditions. But I carefully dried both on the way back to Te Anau and left them in indirect heat overnight - seems ot have worked.
Nice work tom, a lot of memories in your images for me as i was born in a place called Gore, not far from wanaka and queenstown.

Will get back there in the next few years i hope.
 
The very soft flag image was not because of a classic soft focus lens or even out of focus but rather the lens has so much water on it that soft focus look was the best it could do. I had been using a tissue to wipe the water off the lens but by this stage it had well and truly fallen apart so my 'classic' NZ maritime flag with waterfall background was a failure - but the essence of what I meant was still there.

A bit like Capa's D-Cay landing images - the best that could be achieved on the day. The best images were on the top deck outside in the wet but only I and a couple of others braved the inundation. I sought what shelter I could find but hardly under-cover. Other images were taken with tissue-wiping help or before the wet really ramped up.
 
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