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Autumn Colors

Haven't written anything for a long time!
Most of my time now is consumed by MCAT as the test date gets closer and closer...
However, I decided to get a small point & shoot camera to document my life as I'm lazy to bring a huge DSLR with me around all the time.

And I bought this at Amazon
 Olympus XZ-1, it's on sale at Amazon for an amazing price, given the capabilities of the camera, this is a must buy if you're looking a small backup camera to your large DSLR.

So I walked around campus yesterday, capturing the colors of my favorite season:






Overall, I'm quite satisfied with this camera.  Some of these pictures are taken at ISO 400 & 800, and being a small camera, theres some noise present.  However, the large aperture on this camera is just unbeatable!

Another side note is that the jpeg processing engine in this camera tend to apply a lot of noise reduction which kills the details of a photo.  Therefore, it is best to shoot RAW and convert later in a third party software.

Hope you guys like these photos!

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